The highly respected team of professional auction services headed up by Tim and Cathy Jennings of SportHorseAuctions.com's has had success over 35 years with events including the auction at the AQHA World Championship Show and the annual Pony auction held at the Kentucky Horse Park during the USEF Pony Finals. For the past seven years they have brought their expertise into the American Dressage Market, being the trusted managers of some premier dispersal auctions for American Breeders as Horses UnLimited and Sylvan Farm. After a one-year hiatus the 4th Annual 2013 Sport Horse Auction at Dressage at Lexington, Virginia (July 12-14) under a new company but with the same management team provides the opportunity for breeders, trainers and owners to market and sell their horses during an established Dressage Competition. “The auction brings interested buyers to a point of decision. They must act or lose an opportunity to purchase,” Tim Jennings explains. With expanded internet advertising, live webcasts of the auction and preview reaching the USA and 8 countries featuring live on-line bidding, the 2013 Sport Horse Auction at Dressage at Lexington, Virginia brings to America what Europeans have been doing for years. Here are some of the results, with average sale prices growing each year.

The inaugural CDI3*/CDIY/CDIJ Angelstone Spring Tournament was blessed with wonderful weather. Competitors highly praised the wonderful international class footing in all competition and warm-up rings. The Main Stadium presented challenges to some horses and riders with its truly International ambiance, including a concert quality sound system. Surrounded on low raised berms were three sides of tents (VIP, SPONSOR & Rider spaces) the arena is exactly what riders in North America need to introduce their horses to what to this time only Europe and Florida have offered. The brand new spacious stables enclosed with state of the art tents, with rounded as opposed to pointed peaks, were received with praise & positive compliments regarding the “look” and stalls size. Angelstone Farms near Rockwood, Ontario has created quite a stir amongst the equestrian community. Saturday evening a live band will play with an all evening party at the Cloud Nine Lounge on Angelstone! This week Angelstone presents the first of their 2013 large Hunter/Jumper competitions including a CSI. The transition from Dressage to Jumper competition was managed swiftly and effortlessly by the outstanding Angelstone ground crew.

What a final as a fitting finish to four days of international dressage at four-star level. Despite the less than inviting weather, Carinthian spectators flocked to the GLOCK Horse Performance Center to see 'their' stars and above all GLOCK rider Edward Gal (NED) on his jet black GLOCK's Undercover and Spaniard Juan Manuel Muñoz Díaz on his gorgeous grey Fuego de Cardenas in the freestyle where prize money totalled €75,000.  Gal's music Secretum Revelatum transported the almost completely silent audience during the marvellous dressage performance. GLOCK's Undercover seemed very frisky but showed impressive collection. He made the piaffes and passages look relaxed, the canter powerful, the pirouettes well placed and the half-passes elegant. The audience was captivated and gave the multiple World and European Champion and third in the 2013 World Cup final a big round of applause. An 83.450% score with just about eights to nines for the technical and artistic execution and therefore victory was the judges' reward in today's final day of the Dressage International. "Starting twice and winning twice was really special here," said GLOCK rider Edward Gal, wreathed in smiles at the winner's interview.

Lexington, KY: The Inspection Tour process can seem overwhelming to someone who has never been through it before. It is the desire of the American Hanoverian Society Education Committee to make new Hanoverian breeders feel welcome, and make this first contact with the Society as stress-free and enjoyable as possible. To further this goal, the committee has embarked on a new program with the purpose of offering personal, one-on-one assistance to anyone new to the Hanoverian inspection process. Those who would benefit from this program would be new breeders, or a breeder attending their first Hanoverian inspection with a mare or foal.