The headline of the weekend was the U.S. dressage team’s emphatic gold medal win in the Pan American Games in Toronto. The Chronicle was there for all the pagentry and the great backstories, including how one top Canadian rider is supporting her team as a volunteer. You can read even more about all the Pan American dressage action in the Aug. 3 issue of The Chronicle of the Horse.

On home turf, the Cleveland Grand Prix celebrated 50 years of grand prix show jumping in the United States with the anniversary of the first grand prix ever held in the country. Former top junior star Jennifer Waxman won the $50,000 Cleveland Grand Prix aboard Shakira. The Ohio native hasn’t been showing much in recent years and now works as the executive assistant and special project coordinator for the mayor of University Heights, Ohio, and riders as an amateur. Jennifer Alfano and the venerable derby superstar Jersey Boy topped the USHJA International Hunter Derby there as well.

Up in Calgary, U.S. riders shone on the final week of the Spruce Meadows summer series, with Kent Farrington, Beezie Madden and McLain Ward finishing 1-2-3 in the $400,000 Pan American Cup. Farrington and Voyeur were essentially unbeatable, as Madden and Ward admitted they just couldn’t catch them. Make sure to read the July 17 issue of The Chronicle of the Horse where Ward discusses his win in the $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Cup the week before at Spruce, why he’s riding Rothchild at the Pan American Games, and just how he’s developing what he calls the best horse he’s had—HH Azur.

Scott Brash on Hello Sanctos, winning the Longines GCT Grand Prix of Estoril. Photo by Stefano Grasso/GCT

Over in Europe, Scott Brash earned yet another top prize in the Longine Global Champions Tour of Estoril. He recently annouced that his top ride, Hello Sanctos, wouldn’t be available for the British team at the European Championships—where Olympic qualification is on the line for them—but he’s raking in the dough with the horse in grand prix classes this year.

Schuyler Riley made short work of some big paychecks of her own by winning her second six-figure grand prix in a week by topping the $210,000 Asheville Regional Airport Grand Prix at the Tryon International Equestrian Center. Riley’s had to work hard to get the hot little mare Dobra de Porceyo to be on her side and it’s all paid off. Make sure to read more about that process in the July 27 print edition of The Chronicle of the Horse.

Kelley Farmer on Mindful in Colorado. Photo by Mollie Bailey

Out in Colorado, not only did Kelley Farmer display her usual domination of the hunter derbies by placing first and second in the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, but Christian Heineking also kept a streak of his own going, winning the $100,000 Nutrena Grand Prix. The Chronicle’s Mollie Bailey was out in Colorado to capture all the action and fantastic photos, so don’t miss them! In addition, she’ll have in-depth coverage in the July 27 print edition of The Chronicle of the Horse.

Lake Placid, N.Y., also wrapped up three weeks of showing as Nick Dello Joio topped the $100,000 Woodlea Farms Grand Prix on a catch-ride, Pistoya, who usually shows in the amateur-owner division with Phillip Richter aboard. T.J. O’Mara won the prestigious Kathy Equitation Classic.

Last week, on July 6-7 in Devon, Pa., Tori Colvin dominated her last U.S. National Junior Hunter Finals—East Coast, taking the grand and reserve grand championships and winning the Hunterdon Cup equitation. In the July 17 issue of the Chronicle you can read about how she pushes her boundaries with trainer Andre Dignelli!

Wilhelm Genn on Bugatti winning the $50,000  Grand Prox of Michigan. Photo by Kendall Bierer/Phelps

In Michigan, Wilhelm Genn rode the flashy chestnut Bugatti to the top of the $50,000 Grand Prix of Michigan during the second week of the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival in Traverse City. Genn had also topped the grand prix at the venue the week before, on Welcome COR. “It’s the best feeling to be able to win two weeks in a row, especially with two different horses,” Genn said. “A lot of the time when you win on the same horse, people assume that it is just because it is a good horse. When you win on different ones it gives you a little more credibility. It is very rewarding for me to win a grand prix here. We come back every year, and it doesn’t matter what group of horses we bring, we usually are at the top or near it. With that being said, I am really proud of my horses, and the young ones we have moving up.”

In the eventing world, Holly Payne celebrated her recent wedding with a win in the CIC** division at the Cosequin Stuart Horse Trials (N.Y.) aboard Santino. Jessica Brumfield topped the CIC* on U.S.-bred Landmark’s Ginger Rogers, and Buck Davidson earned blue in open intermediate on D.R. Adirmo.