The Best Weekend All Year! All Year!

It takes a lot to live up to that phrase, but the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event does just that. Actually beginning on Thursday and running through Sunday, the last weekend in April every year thrills thousands of attendees in the heart of Horse Country, Lexington, Kentucky and the spectacular Kentucky Horse Park.

The competition includes the main Event – the CCI5*-L and running concurrently the Cosequin® Lexington CCI4*-S and added to the roster in 2018 the Kentucky CSI4* Invitational Grand Pix presented by Hagyard Equine Medical Institute on Saturday night.

Equestrian Events is the non-profit charitable Kentucky corporation that was originally established to produce the 1978 World Three-Day Event Championships, held for the first time in the United States and they were heralded as an unprecedented success. Following that success EEI established the annual event we know today. Read more on page