Making Music at GAIG/USDF Region 7 & CDS 56th Annual Championships Evening Entertainment & Competition Hits All the Right Notes on Day 3

RANCHO MURIETA, CA (Sept. 23, 2023) —In the $1,000 CDS HOY Grand Prix Freestyle Open sponsored by Parker Equine Insurance on Saturday evening before a captive crowd, Christian Hartung of Vacaville, Ca, made the first day of Autumn memorable winning the Championship with a a 72.375% in a class of seven, with the 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding Desario owned by Christiane Noelting…

Day 2 Delivers on Grand Prix to Futurity Champion Awards with some better than fiction moments at CDS 56th Annual Championship Show

RANCHO MURIETA, CA (Sept. 22, 2023) — When Day Two dawned at the Murieta Equestrian Center, the stage was set for spectacular competition at the CDS 56th Annual Show. Results did not disappoint. Christian Hartung of Vacaville, Caliif., rode the 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding Desario owned by Christiane Noelting to win the $1,000 CDS Grand Prix HOY Open sponsored by Rohan Dressage/Sherry DeLeon Memorial Trophy with a score of 63.967% in a class of seven…

CDS 56th Annual Championship Show featuring over $30,000 in Prize Money and Awards Kicks off Day 1 with Prix St. Georges Champion Awards and more.

RANCHO MURIETA, CA (Sept. 21, 2023) — Yvonne Christine Kaul Weiss of Santa Rosa, Calif., rode her 10-year-old KWPN gelding Apache Horsea to victory in the $1,000 CDS Prix St. Georges HOY A/A sponsored by Las Vegas Chapter/Global Imagine Perpetual on Day One of the 56th Annual Dressage Society Championship Show with a 67.574% score in a field of eight…

Competition Wraps at 55th Annual California Dressage Society & GAIG/USDF Region 7 Championships

Burbank CA: Competition wrapped up today at the 55th Annual California Dressage Society and 2022 GAIG/USDF Region 7 Championships. Over 200 horses competed in four rings, over four days at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. More than seventy-five championship titles were awarded to Open, Amateur and Junior riders. One of the major dressage events in California, the combined championship is an immense undertaking with more than 100 volunteers and staff.

FIRST CDS GRAND CHAMPIONSHIPS, SPONSORED BY HALTER EGO PRESENTED ON THIRD EVENING OF COMPETITON

Burbank, CA: The first California Dressage Society Grand Champions, sponsored by Halter Ego, were awarded tonight at this 55th Annual Championship Show. Allida Jantz Taylor (Aptos, CA) and Global Equestrian Imports, Quarter Fox won the overall Intermediaire I title. The 2009 German Sporthorse was third in the Intermediaire class earlier in the weekend.

Grand Prix and Futurity Champions Awarded on Second Day of CDS 55th Annual Championship Show

BURBANK, CA: Genay Vaughn (Elk Grove, CA) captured the top prize of the day winning the 2022 CDS Open Grand Prix Championship, sponsored by Buchalter Equine Law. Riding Gino, the 2011 KWPN Gelding, owned by Michelle Vaughn, Genay scored a 73.804, taking home the winner’s share of the $1000 purse, CDS Jacket and Sherry DeLeon Memorial Trophy, and this in only the horse’s fourth Grand Prix.

Prix St. Georges Champions Awarded on First Day At CDS 55th Annual Championship Show

BURBANK, CA: Rebecca Rigdon (Cardiff, CA) captured the first awards of the 2022 CDS Championships on Ad Astra Collective’s 2014 KWPN Gelding, Jagger. The pair bested a field of nine with a 69.412%. Rigdon has been riding Jagger since he was four and has garnered multiple National Young Horse awards in the 4, 5, and 6-Year-Old as well as being named to the US Emerging and Developing Horse programs.