I love me a derby. It separates the men from the boys. The women from the girls. The horsemen from the hobbyists. But with philanthropic endeavors that fill a standard...
“Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?” Martin Fuchs enters the ring. He and his horse, Lorde, are fresh, having skipped the first round....
“Look at the aggression!” Mark Bluman is flying at full speed, without a pause, without a thought, towards the fearsome permanent double liverpools that mark the penultimate obstacle in the...
Spruce Meadows is a world unto itself. A vast equestrian campus set on over 500 acres, filled with pomp and circumstance—marching bands, paratroopers, Mounties, triumphant prize givings, crowd-filled stands, and...
Last week, in the five-star Grand Prix at the Longines League of Nations in Rotterdam, a spectacular podium placing from a New Zealand rider had everyone asking “Who is Luke...
Hot on the heels of their first team sale, the Premier Jumping League, the new upstart show jumping league founded by Frank McCourt, announced it has secured FEI approval. Even...
The Premier Jumping League, the upstart show jumping league flush with $300 million in prize money guaranteed over its first three years, has its first team—sold for a cool $50...
I think I’ve got a new crush: Willem Greve. I didn’t want to say it during my previous recaps of Faultless: The Riders, The Horses, and the Pursuit of Excellence,...
Warning: Contains spoilers! As every reader of mine knows, my heart grows three sizes bigger every time Jumping La Baule comes up in conversation. Now imagine a six-part docuseries on...
For those of us intimately involved in show jumping, the sport is a complete and total obsession. It is rare that we think about anything else, even rarer that we...
In The Netherlands on Sunday, the jump off for the Huawei Grand Prix of Rotterdam was flush with riders and their mounts—11 of them—so much so that this journalist, 4,582...
It was a podium decided by bare fractions of fractions of a second! The third leg of the Longines League of Nations, taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, delivered a three-way...
Martin Fuchs, aboard his longtime mount Conner Jei, was first to go in the jumpoff. That unenviable position where a rider, not knowing what lies ahead, has little choice than...
And here we are at the crucial moment—Richie “Hands” Vogel enters the ring in La Baule, France on board his unmatchable mount United Touch S. The Germans had it won....
The pup had spotted his quarry. He followed it with eager eyes, one ringed with black, as if he were a cartoon animal that had been punched. An ear flopped...
Shall I start with a shameful confession? I have never attended the show at St. Gallen. It would not be a shameful confession if I had never had occasion to...
“I have no words to explain,” says Piergiorgio Bucci. “They asked me already in Italian and I didn’t find words in Italian—imagine if I could find in English!” Words come...
