Author Archives: Carley Sparks

When Darragh Kenny (IRL) took over the ride on Volnay du Boisdeville, the horse already had a proven track record. Purchased for and campaigned by Teddy Vlock, a client of...

When Ashlee Bond took to the La Silla arena for the post-event interview on Sunday, she brought the crowd to their feet and tears to their eyes. The Israeli rider...

Eye Candy closed the gap on Helios’s dominant lead in Monterrey on Saturday and it didn’t come at a moment too soon. Helios, Major League Show Jumping’s most dominant team...

The Bugatti car brand is celebrated for its design beauty and many race victories. The same can be said for Eduardo Leon's 16 year old gelding of the same name. Bugatti...

When Kyle King (USA) and Etalon galloped through the timers in the Vector Empresas CSI5* 1.50m Jump Off at Major League Show Jumping Monterrey II on Thursday, they were the...

Helios "did the damn thing" in the Major League Show Jumping team event in Mexico. MLSJ's front running team expanded their every growing lead—again—on Sunday at MLSJ Monterrey I, jumping...

When Lillie Keenan added Queensland E to her string earlier this summer, it was a stroke of luck that brought them together. The 13-year-old stallion, previously campaigned to 5* victories...

Kyle King is a known threat in a jump off and frequent visitor to the podium. But even veteran winners are not immune to a crisis of confidence when the...

Conor Swail rolled the dice with Gamble in the Banorte CSI5* 1.45m Speed at Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) Monterrey on Friday. But you could say the odds were already...

Honest and courageous. That’s how Alberto Sanchez-Cozar (MEX) describes his recently acquired Holtsteiner stallion Catover. He might add consistent. Previously campaigned by both countryman Mario Oñate and Brazil’s Rodrigo Lambre,...

Human beings are hardwired to be bad lie detectors when it comes to strangers. You may think, Pfft, not me. I’m excellent at spotting a liar. And you’d be wrong....

When Spy Coast Spies' Shane Sweetnam (IRL) and James Kann Cruz entered the Turtle Creek Casino and Hotel arena on Sunday to contest the 52nd running of the American Gold...

After last season's dominating performance on the Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) tour and with four of the original dream team returning in 2022, Eye Candy landing atop a podium...

Kent Farrington came, he saw and he conquered MLSJ Ottawa. Team Lugano's leading man made his first ever trip to the Canadian capital for the fourth stop on Major League...

Between world no. 10 Kent Farrington and top ranked female rider Erynn Ballard, Lugano was one of the strongest Major League Show Jumping teams on paper this season. But their...

Quinn 33 has made a few trips around the block. At 12, the German warmblood has had 12 different riders over the course of his international career—and jumped 1.45m or...

In 2021, A.I.M United's Daniel Bluman came to Ontario's Angelstone Events for the first time in a decade and started the week off with a memorable win. Chasing the leading...

Two Major League Show Jumping teams are making strategic substitutions this week. The third of ten legs on the 5* tour sees MLSJ stop in Toronto. Eye Candy and Helios,...

Sixteen-year-old William Martin (CAN) came to Traverse City, MI two weeks ago with three horses and high expectations for the FEI North American Youth Championships. Then all his plans went...

Four months ago, D'artagnan was living in a field. The 14-year-old chestnut gelding, previously campaigned by Brazilian Olympian Santiago Lambre up to the 1.50m level, hasn’t shown internationally since 2018....