Show Jumping
Feel Good Story of the Day: Cedric and Quick Study Are Pasture Buddies
For nearly a decade, Laura Kraut’s great grey gelding Cedric and Lauren Hough’s quirky bay Quick Study travelled the world contesting the most elite competitions…
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Carley Sparks
Carley sees the world through horse-colored lenses. They’re like rose-colored lens, but with more show jumping. Carley’s mission is simple: to make show jumping more popular than hockey, football and ice cream. Combined. Carley lives in Toronto with her partner, daughter and son.
Show Jumping
A Tale of Four Underdogs
Once upon a time, four young men from Mexico dreamed of riding horses for their country. With stars in their eyes and visions of grandeur…
5 days ago
History
The Auspicious Start of Margie Goldstein-Engle’s Nations Cup Career
The first time Margie Goldstein-Engle rode on a US Nations Cup team was in Toronto in 1989 on a horse named Saluut II. And she…
6 days ago
Interviews & Profiles
Ashlee Bond’s Donatello Is Blue Steel
Ashlee Bond’s upcoming mount goes by the name Donatello. But Zoolander might have been a more accurate starter. The really, really ridiculously good looking Westphalian…
1 week ago
Show Jumping
Andy Kocher Is Growing a Playoff Beard
There are hairs sprouting on Andy Kocher’s chinny chin chin and he’s not shaving them off until he wins, so says the World Cup finalist.…
1 week ago
Horse Play
#BarnLife Rebranded
Oh, the digital age! For years, we’ve been nurturing our addiction to smartphones, fuelling our dependency on digital communication and outsourcing our thinking to the…
1 week ago
History
Naming the Nations Cup, a Brief History
Hockey has the Stanley Cup. Football, the Grey Cup. In show jumping, the annual championship coveted by every international team the world over is known…
2 weeks ago
Show Jumping
Margie Goldstein-Engle Tells Dad Jokes
A 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year walks into a bar…
3 weeks ago
Show Jumping
Valinsky S and the Victory 17 Years in the Making
Every year since 2014, Valinksy S has trotted into the international ring at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL with a different rider in…
1 month ago
Dressage
This Week in Laura Graves News: Two New Titles and a Freestyle Victory
Last week, Laura Graves introduced new music in her winning Freestyle. The musical overture features dramatic orchestral swells and rhythmic percussion sequences. It does not include…
1 month ago
Dressage
Laura Graves Named USEF Equestrian of the Year and All Is Right with the World
Everyone can breathe easy tonight. Laura Graves, the only correct choice for 2018 USEF Equestrian of the Year title, took home the Robert P. Strub…
1 month ago
Show Jumping
Ukulman de la Nutria Is a Mystery Waiting to be Solved
Brazil’s Celso Ariani and Ukulman de la Nutria captured the first WEF Challenge Cup of the 2019 Winter Equestrian Festival season in Wellington, FL on…
1 month ago
History
#TBT: That Time Ted Edgar Jumped the Hickstead Derby with a Broken Arm
Show jumping legend Ted Edgar has been heralded as a larger-than-life character, an innovator ahead of his time and a gifted horseman. He’s also a straight-up bad…
2 months ago
Show Jumping
Set Your Alarm for 3:00pm ET: Show Jumping History Is About to Be Made
Mark this date. December 13 will go down in history as the day the Super Cup was born. The first ever Global Champions (GC) Playoffs…
2 months ago
Show Jumping
McLain Ward in “The Greys of Our Lives”
Twenty eighteen was a grey year for McLain Ward. In a literal sense. A bevy of overcast-hued horses have kept the double Olympic gold medalist…
2 months ago
Show Jumping
Scott Brash’s Ursula Is Retirement Bound
Ursula XII, a horse whose name is reminiscent of 90s sitcom Friends and/or Disney’s The Little Mermaid, depending on the year you were born, will grace…
2 months ago
Show Jumping
Steve Guerdat Wins the Rolex IJRC Top 10 Final—AGAIN
The top ten(ish) came. They saw. But only one would conquer. The annual Rolex International Jumper Riders Club (IJRC) Top 10 Final saw (most of)…
3 months ago
Interviews & Profiles
Mattias Tromp Plays Mind Games (with Himself)
Rising star Mattias Tromp (USA) jumped a whopping 260 spots up the Longines World Rankings in 2018—by doing his homework. Ranked 408 in January, the…
3 months ago
Show Jumping
The 2020 FEI World Cup Finals to Return to the Oddly Shaped Thomas & Mack Arena
The Longines FEI Jumping and Dressage World Cup™ Finals are returning to Las Vegas in 2020. Hurrah! But…they’re back at the oddly shaped Thomas &…
3 months ago
Show Jumping
Eric Lamaze Cancels Fall Tour Due to “Health Concerns”
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Eric Lamaze will not show in Geneva this week due to undisclosed health issues. Lamaze posted a rare personal note on…