Aug 26 – Sep 5 Wrapped ✓
88th TWH National Celebration
The World's Greatest Horse Show — eleven nights of Tennessee Walking Horse competition where World Grand Champions are crowned.
📍 Shelbyville, TNWalking Horse
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Explore the disciplines
Every horse has a job it loves. Here's what the horses of Horse Commons actually do — what each sport is, who lives it, and where to watch it happen.
Tennessee Walking Horses
The Tennessee Walking Horse is famous for its smooth four-beat running walk — a gait so comfortable it's been called the Cadillac of trail horses. Equitation, versatility, and flat-shod show classes anchor a season that peaks at the Celebration in Shelbyville.
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Hunter/Jumper
Hunters are judged on style and rhythm over a course of fences; jumpers race the clock. The Kentucky Horse Park's summer circuit is one of the deepest in the country, and the local KHJA shows are where many riders log their first courses.
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Aug 4–9 Wrapped ✓
USEF Pony Finals
The country's best ponies and their riders converge on the Bluegrass for the national pony championships.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkHunter/Jumper
Details ↗Aug 11–16 Wrapped ✓
Bluegrass Festival Horse Show
USEF-rated hunter/jumper competition in the Kentucky Horse Park's summer show stretch.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkHunter/Jumper
Details ↗Aug 19–23 Wrapped ✓
KHJA Horse Show
The Kentucky Hunter Jumper Association's annual show — the local circuit's centerpiece.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkHunter/Jumper
Details ↗Aug 19–23 Wrapped ✓
WEC Wilmington Summer Series
A summer show week in WEC's outdoor arenas — classes from walk-trot through the 1.20m jumpers.
📍 World Equestrian Center – WilmingtonHunter/Jumper
Details ↗Sep 22–27 Wrapped ✓
Split Rock Fall Classic CSI3*
International CSI3* show jumping plus hunter and jumper divisions on the Split Rock Jumping Tour.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkHunter/Jumper
Details ↗Sep 23 – Oct 25 Wrapped ✓
WEC Fall Classic Series
Five USEF-rated hunter/jumper weeks in Ohio — grands prix, mini prix, and national hunter derbies.
📍 World Equestrian Center – WilmingtonHunter/Jumper
Details ↗Oct 21 – Nov 1 Wrapped ✓
National Horse Show
One of America's oldest horse shows — top hunters, international jumpers, and the Maclay National Championship in the Alltech Arena.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkHunter/Jumper
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Equestrian sport's triathlon: dressage, cross-country, and show jumping across a single competition. Kentucky is its American heartland — from starter trials to the five-star at the Horse Park each spring.
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Jul 17–19 Wrapped ✓
Kentucky Summer Horse Trials
Summer eventing at the Horse Park — dressage, cross-country, and show jumping from Starter on up.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkEventing
Details ↗Aug 15–16 Wrapped ✓
River Glen Summer H.T.
East Tennessee's riverside eventing fixture — the summer running at River Glen Equestrian Park.
📍 River Glen Equestrian ParkEventing
Details ↗Aug 25–30 Wrapped ✓
USEA American Eventing Championships
The national championships of eventing — every level from Starter through Advanced, all at the Horse Park.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkEventing
Details ↗Oct 14–18 Wrapped ✓
Hagyard Midsouth Three-Day Event
USEA eventing from Novice through CCI3*, classic-format three-days, and the sport's oldest team challenge.
📍 Kentucky Horse ParkEventing
Details ↗Saddle Seat
High-stepping elegance in the show ring: saddle seat celebrates the brilliance of high-motion horses in three-gaited pleasure and equitation classes — a fixture of Kentucky's county fairs, 4-H rings, and the World's Championship in Louisville.
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Ranch & Games
Working-horse sports with a stopwatch and a job to do — ranch riding, ranch trail, barrel racing, pole bending, and stake races. The backbone of 4-H and open shows across Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.
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Trail & Pleasure
Not every great horse is a show horse. Trail and pleasure horses are the heart of most barns — the steady partners for fence-line miles, creek crossings, and first canters.
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Sep 12 Wrapped ✓
KHP Foundation Fall Trail Ride
A community trail ride through the Kentucky Horse Park's grounds and countryside.
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The Bluegrass is Thoroughbred country. Catch morning workouts and October stakes afternoons at Keeneland — and this year, racing's world championships.
See it live
Oct 2–24 Wrapped ✓
Keeneland Fall Meet
Three weeks of world-class Thoroughbred racing — 22 stakes across the historic October meet (dark Mon/Tue).
📍 KeenelandRacing
Details ↗Oct 30–31 Wrapped ✓
Breeders' Cup World Championships
Racing's world championships return to Keeneland for their fourth running at the historic track.
📍 KeenelandRacing
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