The AIG $1 Million Grand Prix is the grand finale of the winter circuit at HITS Coachella in Thermal, California. Since 2012, HITS has offered the only million dollar grand prix in California, and one of the first in the United States. The AIG $1 Million continues to be the richest show jumping competition on […]
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The indelible 20-year-old Irish Sport Horse stallion Flexible won the opening CSI4* competition of the National Sunshine Series in Thermal, California on Thursday, November 10, 2016 with Rich Fellers in the irons. Fellers and Flexible prevailed over a jumpoff of ten pairs in the $34,600 HITS Welcome Stake CSI4*, from a full field of 53 […]
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The National Sunshine Series awards over $1 million in prize money over two weeks in Southern California during the late fall. The series, at HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, includes USEF Premier-rated Hunters and 5*/6* Jumpers, and features a $200,000 Sunshine Grand Prix FEI CSI4*, a $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, the West Coast […]
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When Germany’s Paul Schockemöhle and Florian Meyer zu Hartum sent U.S. rider Ray Texel the Oldenburg mare Baldira (Baloubet Rouet x Carthago Z) to compete and train in late 2014, it was with the express belief that the horse suited Texel’s riding style. The prediction was proving to be true in 2015, when the pair […]
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