We’re once again lucky to be spending some of our winter in Aiken, South Carolina. This year we’re based at the gorgeous Stable View, and it’s like living at Disney World! It has everything we need to help us prep for an exciting competition season. After we got the horses settled in, we went out…

In 2016 the USEA established two educational scholarships in memory of the late Roger Haller to address the urgent need of training new officials who can serve at the highest levels of the sport. Increasing the pool of eventing officials was one of the reasons Haller devoted so much of his time to addressing the…

The event at Richland Park is a destination for many eventers – and eventing officials included! This year was no exception as the USEA and USEF held a final exam for all eventing official candidates. Valerie was a grateful recipient of the inaugural Roger Haller Scholarship http://useventing.com/news/usea-foundation-announces-roger-haller-scholarships-education-eventing-officials and used this award to pursue both her…

The last weekend in July proved to be an exciting one as both Favian and Dewey Square left the comfort of their #1 positions on the USEA Leaderboard and moved up a level at the New Jersey Horse Park II event. Favian put in a respectable test for a horse green at this level. There…

The USEA National Leaderboards have been updated – and there are a lot of familiar names on the top of the list! Halfway through 2017 Favian is the #1 Preliminary horse in the country! Also in the Preliminary categories, Alexandra Peterson rounds out the top of half both the Young Adult Rider and Intercollegiate Rider…

Two horses headed way up north to Bromont CCI1* to represent Blue Clover Eventing on the truly International scene! Valerie and Favian and super student Alexandra Peterson and her own Willie Wiggins made the 12 hour trek – and made it worthwhile! Favian finished a very competitive 4th in the biggest division of Bromont 2017…

Valerie Vizcarrando and her 9-year-old Oldenburg Favian just completed their sixth one-star competition and earned a well-deserved win in The Fork CIC*. They scored a 41.9 for second after dressage and remained in the same position despite a rail down in show jumping. They produced one of only a few double clear cross country rounds in the division to secure at least second, but overnight leader Rachel Wilks and Great Expectations crossed the finish two seconds over time, giving Valerie and Favian the win by a mere 0.1 penalty point.

BCE is thrilled to be able to offer this clinic May 9-10! Conquer your fear of falling safely and fine tune new instincts! Convenient to MD VA and D.C. – email val@blueclovereventing.com or text 410-353-3813 for details! Sign up at landsafeequesetrian.com

USEA PODCAST FEATURING VALERIE and a successful fall 2015 season for the one, the only, Willie Wiggins! Click here so you can listen to the entire interivew and get the behind the scene’s on Alex Peterson’s horse of a lifetime…and why she is going to have to fight Valerie to get him back 😉