Oct. 31, 2013 – Lexington, KY- In an effort to educate members and promote the USEF Young Horse Championship and Festival at the Kentucky Horse Park in the Fall of 2014 the USEF will be holding a Championship Symposium November 8-10, 2013 in the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park. U.S. team coaches and representatives from dressage, driving, eventing, hunter, and jumping will gather to share their excitement about this new program and explain the details of each discipline’s competition criteria for the 2014 USEF Young Horse Championships and Festival.   

USHJA Young Hunter and Young Jumper will be among the divisions offered at the USEF Young Horse Championship and Festival at the Kentucky Horse Park in the Fall of 2014. The championship is intended to showcase and identify the best young horses in the United States in the dressage, driving, eventing, hunter and jumping disciplines.

The Championship is also intended to promote American-bred horses while creating an incentive to buy, own, and show young horses. The Championship and Festival will talent-spot horses in two ways; a competition hosting horses ages four through six or seven years-old depending on the discipline, and an in-hand evaluation by a panel of experts for yearlings to three-year-olds. Both will help to provide educational opportunities regarding breeding and development of young horses.  

To register for the Symposium and reserve your space, please send an e-mail requesting a seat to: YHSymposiumRegistration@usef.org 

For the 2013 USEF Young Horse Symposium Preliminary Overview visit: www.usef.org/images/eblasts/archive/YHC_Overview.html 

For more information about the 2013 USEF Young Horse Championship Symposium and the 2014 USEF Young Horse Championships and Festival visit: https://www.usef.org/YoungHorseChampionships.aspx