This year’s $100,000 Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Qualifier will also serve as a 2016 Rio Olympics qualifier. The show jumping event was selected as one of the qualifying events for the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro from Aug. 12-19. Show jumping first appeared at the Olympics in 1900, but did not reappear until […]
Suzy Stafford will try to win her third straight single horse driving title at the Live Oak International, scheduled for Feb. 25-28, but this time she’ll have a Hall of Fame horse in the harness. Stafford’s 8-year-old Morgan, PVF Peace of Mind, was recently selected to the Horse Stars Hall of Fame for 2016. Better known […]
Traditionally, the Live Oak International horse show has donated most proceeds from the event toward charities and non-profit organizations in the community. This year is no different. Here’s a look at the organizations you are helping to support: Marion Therapeutic Riding Association – Since 1985, the MTRA has offered therapeutic horseback riding to people of […]
The Live Oak International combined driving and show jumping event celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. But another 25th anniversary was also celebrated. Jamaica, who for years was part of Chester Weber’s four-in-hand team, turned 25 recently. A past USEF Horse of The Year and Equus Foundation Hall of Fame inductee, he is one of […]
In just its fifth year as part of the Live Oak International, show jumping has staked its spot as an equal to the combined driving that reigned for the first 20 years of the event. Juliet Reid, sister of Chester Weber and part of the Weber family that has historically hosted the event on their […]
Well before this year’s silver anniversary celebration and the event burgeoning into a combined driving success story, Live Oak International was a small, mostly local affair. In the 1990s, the event was held in a covered arena near Ocala, not the expansive outdoor course that it boasts today on the property of Live Oak Plantation. […]
Show jumping history is inextricably tied to modern fence laws. There was a time when the world had few fences. In England, livestock roamed freely on common land. Foxhunters also used vast open spaces for their sport. But by the 1800s more and more of the common lands were put under legal property rights and […]
From the moment you drive up to the Live Oak International, you will see them: The Live Oak volunteers. Whether it’s directing you to the parking area, checking your ticket, driving the guest shuttles or just saying, “Hello,” the work they do makes the event go off smoothly. The sense of volunteerism really took hold […]
They are as iconic as the beer they promote. The Budweiser Clydesdales have become a brand unto themselves since the company first used them in 1933 to ceremoniously deliver beer after prohibition was repealed. This year, the famous hitch will visit the Live Oak International horse show at Live Oak Plantation during its 25th Anniversary […]
While combined driving is a relatively new equestrian discipline, officially established in the 1970s, its roots go back hundreds of years to a time when cars were only a fantasy. The discipline features both the elegance of 19th century carriage finery and the brute military force of carriage maneuvers. It has been called a true […]
