It's the final week of the 2018 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF)—tear mark!—and everything's coming up green, yellow and blue. For the second time in three days, a Brazilian horse ridden...
“Everyone dreams of that 80%," said American Olympian Adrienne Lyle. Last night at the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington, Florida, her dream came true. Riding the 11-year-old stallion,...
For the past three months, Lucy Deslauriers plans have been shot. Sidelined by a shoulder injury and a surgery on her hand at the end of 2017, the American show...
If at first you don't succeed at the 2018 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF), try, try, try (16 times) again. Melissa Taylor (USA) and Ansgar were this week's lesson in...
Jumper jockey Norman Dello Joio and patron Hunter Harrison along with horses Authentic and Sympatico are getting their well earned place in the history as the 2018 electees to the Show Jumping...
One rider. Two Classic Champions Tour classes. And a pair of promising prospects. Schuyler Riley (USA) dominated the young horse series at the inaugural Palm Beach Open at Deeridge Farms...
To jump off immediately, or to wait? That was the question in the $15,000 Turkish Airlines 1.40m Jumper Time First Jump-Off class on the final day of the Palm Beach...
In a field of aspiring athletes and future champions, one small but mighty combination rose to the top in the $10,000 1.40m Jumpers at the Palm Beach Open in Wellington,...
When riding, training, and competing, it seems we are constantly trying to balance how to be kind to our horses while still establishing boundaries that ensure behavior that keeps everyone—horse...
Frédéric Cottier knows a thing or two about show jumping. As a rider, he won a bronze medal for France at 1988 Seoul Olympics. As a course designer, he set...
It's always something of a shock to the system: that first ride of the season after what felt like a repressively long winter. It had been a few months since...
Kristen Vanderveen (USA) came to Ocala, Florida this weekend with France in her sights. But she needed a minor miracle to get there. As the final qualifier in the North...
Fourteen legs, seven states, four provinces and eight months. The thrilling 2017/2018 Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping North American League officially came to a close at Live Oak International in Ocala,...
Who will win the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Ocala? We called in equestrian sport scientist, Dr. Tim Worden, to pick his top three contenders. Dr. Worden has a PhD in...
Fun fact: it's getting increasingly difficult to come up with creative ways to announce that Eric Lamaze (CAN) has won the WEF Challenge Cup. Yet again. Related: do you think it ever...
We're basing that highly speculative opinion on one fact: they share horses! Irish show jumper Darragh Kenny took second place in the $35,000 Douglas Elliman 1.45m Classic CSI 3* on...
Disheartened by exorbitant cost of developing young horses in North America? Long for the days when Thoroughbreds dominated the hunter/jumper rings? Enjoy the sun in Southern California? Husband and wife...
The pony and I are having a hard time. She’s been pulling me in a cart for seven years now. Out of nowhere she’s gotten anxious and persnickety, not wanting...
