The Legacy Continues for 2025 Capital Challenge Horse Show
The Capital Challenge Horse Show continues its legacy in 2025 as a premier horse show destination in 2025 celebrating its 32nd edition at Prince George’s Equestrian Center from September 24-October 5, 2025.
Each year since 1994, the Capital Challenge Horse Show has hosted top-notch competition, drawing exhibitors from across the country to Upper Marlboro, MD. The show has evolved to offer a comprehensive schedule of hunter, jumper, and equitation classes across its 12-day run, including several prestigious year-end championship classes.
The 2025 Capital Challenge Horse Show will lead off with the Equitation Showcase, presented by BIGEQ.com, featuring five days of competition on September 24-28. New this year, the Marshall & Sterling Insurance/United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) 3’3” Jumping Seat Medal Final – East Coast will begin on Wednesday, September 24, with the horse inspection followed by the flat phase, then continue on Thursday, September 25.
Additional highlight classes during the Equitation Showcase include the Taylor Harris Insurance Services (THIS) National Children’s Medal Finals, the Palm Beach International Academy (PBIA) North American Junior Equitation Championships, and the North American Adult Amateur Equitation Championships.
The 2025 Capital Challenge Horse Show will then host hunter and jumper competition. The World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) Hunter Challenges will test the country’s best professionals, developing professionals, amateur owners, adult amateurs, juniors, children’s, and pony riders. The top six professional hunter riders will take to the arena to vie for the 2025 championship in the WCHR Professional Finals on Friday, October 3.
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