Author Archives: Carley Sparks

No one was more surprised that Harry Charles won the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ A Coruña on Sunday than Harry Charles. And for good reason. Charles’ mount, Sherlock, is...

Same venue. Same players. Same ending. The script for the individual final Grand Prix of the 2023 Major League Show Jumping season read strikingly similar to the 2022 showing. But...

If you were making a list of Worst Names for a Horse, "Blood Diamond" seems like a shoo-in for the top 10. Behind perhaps "Genocide" and "Hate Crime" but ahead...

Four-in-hand teams don't have official team names. But if they did, we'd dub Bram Chardon's White Lightning. They're deadly fast, explosive through the cones and like homemade hooch, they get...

Germany's Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB have got stamina. On Saturday, dressage's reigning dynamic duo did what they typically do and won the CDI5* Lövsta Top 10 Dressage...

Germany's Marcus Ehning has been there too a few times in Madrid. The 49-year-old multi-hyphenate winner topped the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Madrid on Sunday, for the third time...

Sometimes all that glitters is gold. New Zealand dressage rider Melissa Galloway and Windermere J’Obei W contested 13 FEI classes in the 2023 season. And won every single one. She's...

In the eight year history of the Global Champions League no team has topped both the season standings and the GCL Super Cup. Until now. Riesenbeck International made history on...

"[The years] 2023, 2022 were my best seasons in my career," said Julien Epaillard. On Saturday, the Frenchman added a new feather to his cap: the title Grand Prix of...

Five-time World Cup champion Isabell Werth (GER) contested her first qualifier of the Western European League 2023/24 season at the Stuttgart German Masters this week. Was starting at the third...

"Success is a by-product of excellence," Deepak Chopra famously said. In four-in-hand driving, it's a product of Exell-ence. Australia's Boyd Exell swept the FEI Driving World Cup™ at the 37th...

Forget everything you read about the GCL Super Cup yesterday. If Thursday was dramatic, it paled in comparison to Friday as the stakes and fences went up in the GCL...

With championship pressure comes championship drama and the GC Prague Playoffs delivered both in spades on Thursday. Twelve teams contested the GCL Super Cup Quarter Final at the O2 stadium...

A week ago in France, reigning Olympic champion Ben Maher said “It would always be nice to have a second go!” after finishing third in the CSI5*-W Longines FEI Jumping...

When Daniel Bluman rode through the hitching ring tunnel into the Coca Cola Coliseum at the 101st Royal Winter Fair on Saturday, he was carrying a heavier burden than the...

“As a kid growing up, I remember coming to The Royal and seeing all these amazing riders here and always dreamt that one day I could be here, so it’s...

Stephan de Freitas Barcha wrote a new chapter in his story at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile this week. But the lead up felt like familiar ground. On...

“It was extremely nerve racking this whole day,” said a relieved Laura Kraut after USA clinched the team gold medal and Paris 2024 qualification at the Pan American Games on...

USA's Caroline Pamukcu will go down in eventing history for winning the individual gold and team bronze medals in her championship debut at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago...

Low ball offers are the bane of a horse dealer's existence. In Caroline Pamukcu’s case, it was the stroke of luck that landed her HSH Blake. The 8-year-old gelding was...