Three NRCHA Professionals share top honors in the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity® Open reined work preliminaries

Photo courtesy NRCHA/Primo Morales
Photo courtesy NRCHA/Primo Morales

Day No. 2 of the National Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity ®, presented by Metallic Cat, saw brilliant performances by the top 3-year-old equine tri-athletes in the country as the Open reined work preliminaries came to a close in John Justin Arena at Will Rogers Memorial Center. Each owner and rider team is gunning for their share of the total event payout, which is expected to exceed $1.2 million. The Open Futurity Champion will leave Fort Worth, Texas, $125,000 richer upon the conclusion of the Finals on October 19.

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The highly anticipated National Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity ®, presented by Metallic Cat, got underway Thursday, October 4, 2019 with Open Futurity reined work

Now in its 50th year and returning to Fort Worth, Texas, for the third, the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity is among the most challenging contests in the Western performance horse industry. The event payout is expected to exceed $1.2 million with the Open Futurity Champion receiving a hefty $125,000. The action takes place at Will Rogers Memorial Center October 4 - 19, 2019. With record entries, an expanded schedule and literally something for everyone, such as horse sales, banquets and shopping, the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity is a must-attend event.

Read MoreThe highly anticipated National Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity ®, presented by Metallic Cat, got underway Thursday, October 4, 2019 with Open Futurity reined work

Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ 2019 Final

Photo by © FEI / Lukasz Kowalski
Photo by © FEI / Lukasz Kowalski

Defending champions from Belgium top first-round nail-biter: Team Belgium, winners in 2015 and again last year, looked supremely confident when topping today’s first round of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ 2019 Final at the Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, Spain. But the battle between the seven countries fighting for the single qualifying spot on offer for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games proved equally as intriguing during an afternoon filled with thrills and surprises.

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Alan de Souza Wins PBR Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour’s Portland Chute Out

Photo courtesy of ©Andre Silva
Photo courtesy of ©Andre Silva

As one of two riders to deliver a flawless performance across the two days of competition inside Cross Insurance Arena, Alan de Souza (Taubate, Brazil) captured his second PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour event win of the 2019 season Saturday evening, victorious at the Portland Chute Out in Portland, Maine.

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The Hubside Fall Tour: Piergiorgio Bucci Wins the CSI4* Grand Prix!

Photo courtesy by HUBSIDE Jumping / Marco Villanti
Photo courtesy by HUBSIDE Jumping / Marco Villanti

Forty-six horse and rider combinations took part in the CSI4* Grand Prix on this last Sunday of September. Eleven combinations managed to qualify for the jump-off on the 1m55 course designed by Louis Konickx, boasting sixteen jumping efforts. Although France was the most represented nation in the jump-off, Italy ended up being victorious, thanks to Piergiorgio Bucci’s wonderful performance with Driandria.

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