Important Notice: July 9, 2025
After careful and thoughtful deliberation, the Youth Equestrian Festival organizing committee together with Virginia Horse Center Foundation executive staff, have purposefully made the decision to postpone the Inaugural Youth Equestrian Festival until Summer 2026. In the interim, the planning committee will examine and implement different tactics to enhance the event’s outreach so that the Youth Equestrian Festival, an exciting new initiative for Virginia and the Horse Center that speaks to the heart of the Foundation’s mission, can be successful in every sense and from every standpoint—horses, riders, trainers, parents, sponsors, and vendors.
All exhibitor registration fees will be automatically refunded in the next 30 days.
We offer our apologies to those who were looking forward to this event happening in 2025. Please know that when we announce our plan for 2026, it is with the intention that the reimagined version of the Youth Equestrian Festival will be even better than the original concept.
Download the Youth Equestrian Festival Guidebook here.
The guidebook contains all the information you need to participate in our inaugural event.
Register Online
Registration opens June 3, 2025, and when entries fill, we will establish a waitlist. See specific disciplines for closing dates. Registration closes July 7, 2025.
YEF Class Sponsorships
Supporting YEF through Class Sponsorship
In appreciation of your $100 tax-deductible gift for class sponsorship, you will be recognized as indicated above if and as appropriate in the Donor Recognition page(s) for the show/discipline you choose. You will receive an official acknowledgment from the Horse Center and, of course, heartfelt thanks to all exhibitors and their equine partners!
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