FLASHPOINT MEDIA SERVICES: THE WEEK IN REVIEW
April 30, 2025
AIKEN, S.C.—APRIL 30, 2007— Flashpoint Media Services clients continued with exciting Hunter/Jumper action during the Aiken Spring Classic, April 25-29, which was highlighted by the $25,000 William D Haggard Memorial Hunter Challenge and a $25,000 Grand Prix.
This week, the riders of the Monroe, N.C.-based HUNTERS LANE FARM were in the limelight, beginning with budding junior rider Alise Oken, who bested a seasoned group of professionals—including Scott Hofstetter and Daniel Geitner—to captured the $25,000 Hunter Classic aboard the Oken-Don Stewart-owned mare Alisette. Read more
USET Foundation Offers Athlete Portrait Campaign Posters for Sale at www.uset.org to Benefit High Performance Programs
April 26, 2025
GLADSTONE, NJ – April 26, 2025 – The extraordinary Athlete Portrait Campaign posters created by Elma Garcia that were on display and for sale at the 2007 Rolex FEI World Cup™ Finals in Las Vega, Nevada (April 18-22) can now be purchased via the USET Foundation website at www.uset.org. There are five different posters available for a donation to the Foundation of $35 each. All proceeds from the sales of the posters benefit the U.S. equestrian team athletes and their High Performance programs. Read more
HITS is bringing the family fun back to Saugerties
April 25, 2025
Saugerties, New York (April 25, 2025) - The horse shows that bring $50 million to the surrounding area’s economy are coming back to town! Beginning on Wednesday, May 30 the HITS facility will open its gates for three consecutive weeks of Olympic-level equestrian competition. HITS will feature two Grand Prix classes each week: on Thursdays it’s a $25,000 purse sponsored by Ariat and on Sunday afternoons the stakes are higher as riders and horses vie for up to $75,000 in prize money. Read more
Action Set to Begin at Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Presented by Farnam
April 25, 2025
Lexington, KY April 25, 2025 - Some 45 horses are set to start the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, on Thursday, April 26, after passing this afternoon’s first veterinary inspection. The three-member ground jury decided after careful and lengthy deliberation not to pass one horse this afternoon, but that one horse was Ocotillo, the mount of Lexington-based Cathy Wieschhoff. Read more
ROLEX KENTUCKY TO RUN IN WITHOUT STEEPLECHASE FORMAT IN 2007
April 25, 2025
The 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event will be run in the “without Steeplechase” or “short” format as in 2006. We at Equestrian Events, Inc. continue to be staunch supporters of and believers in the classic (long) format of the Three-Day Event, at all levels. Read more
Reminder: Rolex Kentucky Live Online on NBC at MediaZone
April 25, 2025
Equestrian sports fans around the world will be able to watch the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, as it happens thanks to the world’s first-ever full, live, end-to-end webcast of a Four Star Three-Day Event. Read more
Back in the Spotlight: Retracing Some of History’s Outstanding Olympic Moments
April 25, 2025
With some 471 days to go till the 2008 Olympic Games and a week during which the eyes of the sports world are turned to Beijing where the SportAccord convention is currently taking place, let us take stock from the past, from the inspirational to the downright remarkable feats in equestrian Olympic history. Read more
FEI WORLD CUP™ JUMPING IS COMING HOME…..
April 25, 2025
As the curtain was coming down on the 29th FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final in Las Vegas last weekend, thoughts were already beginning to turn to the 2007/2008 finale which will be staged in the city considered to be the true home of World Cup show jumping - Gothenburg, Sweden. Read more
Flashpoint Media Services: The Week in Review
April 24, 2025
AIKEN, S.C.—April 24, 2007—The Aiken Spring Classic, which kicked off April 18 at the Aiken Horse Park in Ford Conger Field, was a Flashpoint Media Services family affair. On the show grounds and in the ribbons for the inaugural week were Daniel Geitner, of the Aiken-based DFG Stables, the riders of the Monroe-NC-based Hunters Lane Farm, new locals Michael and Luke Tokaruk, of Tokaruk Show Stables, and Finally Farm’s Elizabeth Towell-Boyd and Jack Hardin Towell Jr., who hail from Camden, S.C. Read more
Charlotte Jumper Classic Win Gives McLain Ward Unprecedented Lead in American Grand Prix Association (AGA) Rider of Year Race
April 24, 2025
Wellington, FL – April 24, 2025 – McLain Ward, winner of the $150,000 Grand Prix of Charlotte, CSI 4* on April 15, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina, has broadened what was already an almost insurmountable lead in the race for 2007 American Grand Prix Association (AGA) Rider of the Year. Read more




