Horse Play
10 Ways Guaranteed to Get You Noticed in the Show Ring
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. What better time to test that theory than when the length of your class list rivals…
Author:
Marina Callahan
Show Jumping
15 of the World’s Top 20 play a Rolex Grand Prix Game of Thrones
The much anticipated Rolex Grand Prix at Royal Windsor Horse Show lived up to expectations with a lineup of show jumping royalty, the 36 starts…
2 weeks ago
Show Jumping
Holly Smith Rules the Kingdom of Bahrain Stakes
The CSI5* Kingdom of Bahrain Stakes for the King’s Cup was Holly Smith’s second win at Royal Windsor Horse Show, after putting down the fastest…
2 weeks ago
Dressage
How to Train Your Dressage Horse
When you watch Charlotte Dujardin (GBR) perform the Al Shira’aa Grand Prix Freestyle to Music with Erlentanz you might reasonably assume they are longtime partners,…
2 weeks ago
Show Jumping
Wathelet Gives a Lesson on How to Make a Good First Impression
Gregory Wathelet (BEL) chose to make his Royal Windsor Horse Show debut Deusser style with a win in the CSI5* Pearl Stakes aboard 10-year-old Zangersheide…
2 weeks ago
Dressage
Long Live Dressage Queen Charlotte Dujardin
With a Charles Owen crown, and a dressage saddle as her throne, reigning dressage queen Charlotte Dujardin started her morning at Royal Windsor Horse Show…
2 weeks ago
Show Jumping
Lorenza O’Farrill Is the “Queen of Coapexpan”
Team Mexico began the 2019 Nations Cup Series dubbed the underdogs. But with Sunday’s victory at Club Hipico Coapexpan earning them a best two out…
3 weeks ago
Uncategorized
When Jim Ifko Says “Jump-off,” Celine Says “How Fast?”
Canada’s Jim Ifko and Celine Ls La Silla played “catch me if you can” with 16 horses in the CSIO 5* Copa Conade 1.45m jump-off…
3 weeks ago
Eventing
Oliver Townend Has Déjà Vu at Kentucky Three-Day Event
It’s #thebestweekend all year for Oliver Townend (GBR) two years and counting. The pressure was on for the defending champion during the third leg of…
4 weeks ago
Horse Sport
Karl Cook is SplitRocking Our World
Early in the starting order, earliest in the results. Karl Cook and 12-year-old Holsteiner gelding Caillou 24 proved that even in show jumping, where the…
4 weeks ago
Eventing
10 Times Eventing Fans Were the Champions Every Equestrian Sport Needs
If all equine sports fans were as invested in sharing their undying love for their discipline as eventing fans are every year when the Kentucky…
1 month ago
Uncategorized
Best Dressed and Even Better Dressage, Switzerland’s Felix Vogg Leads LRK3DE
Felix Vogg was already off to a good start on Thursday when he was awarded the Dubarry of Ireland “Best Dressed Male” award. Today, it…
1 month ago
Driving
USEF Test Drives Chef d’equipe Training Program at Live Oak International
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is training chefs, but this isn’t Hell’s Kitchen. A new pilot program introduced at Live Oak International in Ocala,…
2 months ago
Memoir
Tales of a Working Student
My first boss was a middle-aged man from Munich. With the charred end of a cigarette hanging from his mouth, he’d regale anyone willing to…