“They’ve got magnums!” The camera is trained on the German Team, who’ve just hopped off the top of the podium, magnum bottles of champagne in hand, and accosted their chef...
Richard Vogel was the first to go in the second round—the top 12 from the first, returning in reverse order. He was hanging on to a score of four faults,...
It’s Brazil against France, the hometown team. The first round of the Longines League of Nations went down flawlessly for Team Brazil. Their first three riders went clear, eliminating the...
It was a nine rider jump off. First to go in the Rolex Grand Prix of Ireland was Dutch rider Arne Van Heel aboard everyone’s new crush: the up-and-coming 10-year-old...
“Don’t make it interesting, don’t make it interesting! We don’t need it, Shane, we don’t need it to be interesting!” I’m shouting at my TV screen while Shane Sweetnam, rider...
“What an exciting Grand Prix!” she says, practically shouting. I’m in my yard in Wellington, Florida and this traitor is speaking happily and enthusiastically, in a way she NEVER does,...
After weeks of recapping Faultless, I had the opportunity to sit down with Ben Asselin and Kyle Koss, the sibling–producer duo behind the equestrian docuseries. Grandsons of Ron Southern, founder...
The Al Shira'aa King George V Gold Cup. It’s a whoop of Whitakers. If you’re wondering how I know this, I consulted The Book of St. Albans, compiled by Dame...
And now we’ve come to it: the end of the first season of Faultless: The Riders, their Horses, and the Pursuit of Excellence. We’ve skittered from the flamboyant foulness of...
Show jumping has started flooding all our screens. On the heels of the release of Faultless, Box to Box Films producing a series on the upcoming inaugural season of the...
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...
