Defending champions from Belgium top first-round nail-biter: Team Belgium, winners in 2015 and again last year, looked supremely confident when topping today’s first round of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ 2019 Final at the Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, Spain. But the battle between the seven countries fighting for the single qualifying spot on offer for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games proved equally as intriguing during an afternoon filled with thrills and surprises.

After a record-setting 2019, the PBR’s (Professional Bull Riders) Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour (PWVT) is gearing up to bring fans even more action in 2020. The much-anticipated schedule starts at a breakneck pace with 24 first-half events and visits to six new markets.

As one of two riders to deliver a flawless performance across the two days of competition inside Cross Insurance Arena, Alan de Souza (Taubate, Brazil) captured his second PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour event win of the 2019 season Saturday evening, victorious at the Portland Chute Out in Portland, Maine.

Forty-six horse and rider combinations took part in the CSI4* Grand Prix on this last Sunday of September. Eleven combinations managed to qualify for the jump-off on the 1m55 course designed by Louis Konickx, boasting sixteen jumping efforts. Although France was the most represented nation in the jump-off, Italy ended up being victorious, thanks to Piergiorgio Bucci’s wonderful performance with Driandria.

At the fourth-ever PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour event in Portland, Maine, Ramon de Lima (Rio Branco, Brazil) rode supreme Friday evening inside Cross Insurance Arena, recording the high-marked ride of the night to win Round 1 of the Portland Chute Out.

The Brazos Bash is always known for big scores and epic runs from year to year. The arena makes for on edge circumstances which in turn equal some pretty impressive finals. It is hard to get to the finals because of the tough situation, but also it has to do with being in the heart of the cutting capital! This time of year should be impressive though, the four-year-old’s are confident, the three-year-old’s are coming into their own, and the five-six year old’s well, they are better than ever. We are steadily approaching the NCHA Futurity, but there are a few big shows left before the granddaddy of them all!

In front of a record-setting crowd inside EagleBank Arena Sunday afternoon, Chase Outlaw (Hamburg, Arkansas) captured his fourth regular-season event win of 2019 as one of two riders to go a perfect 3-for-3 at the elite PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Unleash The Beast’s U.S. Border Patrol Invitational.

Challenging! This is how the course designed by Italy’s Uliano Vezzani for this Sunday’s CSI4* Grand Prix at the HUBSIDE Fall Tour could be described. And rightly so, as only nine of the fifty horse and rider combinations competing in this 1m55 class managed to jump clear in the first round and qualify for the jump-off. This second round, which was full of twists and turns, was won in the end by the United States’ Laura Kraut.

On a night that saw 15 qualified rides, three riders – Derek Kolbaba (Walla Walla, Washington), Marco Eguchi (Poa, Brazil) and Dalton Kasel (Muleshoe, Texas) – tied for the Round 1 win at the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Unleash The Beast’s U.S. Border Patrol Invitational inside EagleBank Arena after each recorded matching 87.25-point scores.