Reining

One of the headline competitions at the Festival is the $75,000 USET Reining Championship, presented by Bayer, that will serve this year as the final selection trial to pick the U.S. team for the first-ever Reining World Championship to take place at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain in September.

Also on this year’s reining schedule is the very popular Invitational Freestyle where reiners perform in costume, doing dynamic routines set to music. Five countries will battle for highest honors in the Cosequin Nations’ Cup, an internationally sanctioned team competition that will feature teams from, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, U.S. and last year’s gold medal winning country, Canada. Two more reining competitions, the USET Futures Championship, which plays host to the finest developing riders in the country, and the Reining Young Rider Medal Final Class round out the division.