Washington International Horse Show

The Washington International Horse Show is Washington DC’s premier equestrian event, presenting the international show jumping, the hunter, and the equestrian competitions that the Washington horse community, the Georgetown sporting public, and the international equestrian community uses for the October equestrian season. The Washington International Horse Show, which has been held annually since 1958 and which has established itself as one of the premier indoor horse shows in the world, draws the top international show jumping horses and the top American hunter and equitation competitors to the Washington metropolitan area.

The Washington International Horse Show’s competition format presents the elite show jumping in the Washington Metro area’s indoor arena, where the international Grand Prix show jumping features the Grands Prix rounds that test the combinations of the Olympic-caliber horse and the world-class rider over the technical and the physically demanding course that the international FEI show jumping standards require. The hunter and the equitation competition at the Washington International attracts the top professionals and the top junior riders from the American hunter-jumper horse world to the Washington fall competition.

The Washington sporting public that attends the Washington International Horse Show is drawn from the Georgetown and Washington metropolitan area’s horse-owning families, the Washington diplomatic community’s equestrian members, and the Washington sports audience that uses the equestrian competition as the specific spectator sport that the fall season offers.

The event is held in October at the Washington DC area venue. The Washington International Horse Show draws the global show jumping community to the Washington DC area with the international Grand Prix competition that features the Olympic-level competitors and the FEI-caliber horses in the October equestrian competition. The Washington sporting community that attends the show has the annual opportunity to observe the world-class equestrian athletic performance in the Washington metropolitan area venue. The Washington International Horse Show’s October annual event at the Washington DC area venue provides the Georgetown sporting public with the world-class equestrian athletic performance in the Washington metropolitan setting. The horse show’s decades-long tradition in the Washington area has established the October equestrian event as part of the Georgetown and Washington social and sporting calendar that the horse community and the sports audience attends each year. The Washington International Horse Show’s annual October equestrian competition brings the international Grand Prix show jumping and the American hunter and equitation competition to the Washington DC area. The Georgetown sporting public attends the October horse show as the annual equestrian sporting event in the Washington metropolitan area. The Washington International Horse Show’s annual October competition at the Washington DC area venue draws the Georgetown sporting public and the Washington equestrian community to the world-class horse show that has served the Washington equestrian tradition since 1958.