United States Eventing Association

Are you following along with the action from home this weekend? Or maybe you're competing at an event and need information fast. Either way, we’ve got you covered! Check out the USEA’s Weekend Quick Links for links to information including the prize list, ride times, live scores, and more for all the events running this weekend.

Are you following along with the action from home this weekend? Or maybe you're competing at an event and need information fast. Either way, we’ve got you covered! Check out the USEA’s Weekend Quick Links for links to information including the prize list, ride times, live scores, and more for all the events running this weekend.

The Poplar Place Horse Trials are held four times yearly in Hamilton, Georgia (Area III) in March, May, June, and September, offering Introductory through Intermediate levels. Poplar Place is also the host of the Area III Championships at their June event. Poplar Place is a full-service boarding facility that hosts schooling shows in addition to their USEA recognized events.

The University of Georgia (UGA) has snapped up yet another intercollegiate win, this weekend at the Poplar Place Farm March Horse Trials. 

With the start of the spring season comes the resurgence of USEA Intercollegiate Program competitions in 2016. The first of these took place at the Poplar Place Farm March H.T. in Hamilton, Ga. last weekend.

It is with great sadness that we announce that the horse Visionary Patriarch, owned and ridden by Jacel Galloway of Covington, Georgia, was euthanized today following a fall on the preliminary cross-country course at Poplar Place Farm November Horse Trials. The event veterinarian attended the horse immediately but determined there was irreparable damage to the leg.

Poplar Place Farm in Hamilton, Georgia had a busy weekend, hosting a CIC1*, CIC2*, and national horse trial divisions from Advanced through Beginner Novice. Over 400 horses competed at this event—check out the photo gallery of some of the top riders.

It was a busy weekend on the east coast with hundreds of horses and riders competing at Poplar Place Farm in Hamilton, Georgia and Southern Pines II in Raeford, North Carolina. Clark Montgomery and Holly Becker's Irish Sport Horse, Loughan Glen were one of the blue ribbon winners at Poplar Place. The pair added only cross-country time penalties to their dressage score of 28.4 to finish in first in the Advanced-B division.

Gary and Donna Stegman of Poplar Place Farm Horse Trials and the competition officials would like to express their condolences to Jane Rusconi, owner, and Michael Pollard, rider, on the loss of Dekorum, a 9-year-old Thoroughbred mare. Michael and Dekorum were competing in the Advanced Division at the March Horse Trials, when Dekorum suffered an injury while approaching fence eight on the cross-country course.

Becky Holder of Palmetto, Georgia had a fantastic weekend at Poplar Place Farm January Horse Trials last weekend, leading the Open Intermediate/Preliminary division from start to finish. Holder and the 12-year-old Thoroughbred gelding (owned by Rick and Paige Dunkerton) tacked on only 3.2 cross-country time faults to finish ahead of Werner Geven and Golden Malt.