Kent Farrington Flies to Victory at Vermont Summer Festival
August 18, 2025
East Dorset, VT – Kent Farrington of Wellington, FL, rode Up Chiqui to win the $50,000 Vermont Summer Celebration Grand Prix, the final event of the six-week Vermont Summer Festival held July 9 through August 17 in East Dorset, VT. Read more
Christine Walsh Wins Big at Vermont Summer Festival
August 17, 2025
East Dorset, VT – It has been awhile since Christine Walsh of Kinnelon, NJ, has had the opportunity to compete, but that didn’t stop her from winning the $2,500 Marshall & Sterling Adult Amateur Jumper Classic, sponsored by CM Hadfields Saddlery, at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. Read more
Laura Chapot Rides Road To Victory at Vermont Summer Festival
August 16, 2025
East Dorset, VT – 2007 Pan American Games team bronze medalist Laura Chapot of Neshanic Station, NJ, had the fastest clean round to win the $10,000 Tumi/Anichini Open Welcome Stake Read more
Hillary Dobbs Returns to Vermont Summer Festival With a Win
August 15, 2025
East Dorset, VT – Hillary Dobbs of Sussex, NJ, rode Marengo to victory in the $3,000 Open NAL Speed held Thursday, August 14, at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT. Read more
Horsemanship Comes Full Circle for Vermont’s Sarah-Ki Rice
August 14, 2025
East Dorset, VT – Competing at the Vermont Summer Festival, held at the Harold Beebe Farm in East Dorset, VT, is a homecoming for Sarah-Ki Rice and her family. Since the age of 10, she’s learned the ideals of horsemanship and sportsmanship at the Vermont Summer Festival and now teaches the same qualities to her own students. Read more
An Equine Evening Honors Barbaro and Laminitis Research Fund
August 10, 2025
East Dorset, Vermont – On the evening of Thursday, August 7, more than 100 guests arrived at ‘An Equine Evening’ held in the Grand Prix Pavilion at the Vermont Summer Festival in East Dorset, VT, to honor Barbaro, the late Thoroughbred-racing hero. Read more




