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A Night Owl’s Guide to Surviving Horse Show Mornings
The clock strikes 4:45 a.m. and “Blank Space” bursts forth from your speakers, swiftly shaking you from your REM induced bliss. Suddenly possessed by the…
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Marina Callahan
Equine Therapy
When Therapy Meets Thoroughbreds
It was over six-years-ago when the rickety trailer, jostling with rusty bolts, pulled through the driveway of the New Hampshire farm I rode at. Our…
3 weeks ago
Hunter/Jumper
SafeSport and Dangerous Games
Like a crack of lightning splits the earth, the suicide of popular U.S. show jumper Robert Gage has shocked the horse world into a SafeSport…
1 month ago
Show Jumping
The Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of Canada Kodak Moments
Imagine this is the digital version of the photo album your parents set out on the coffee table at family parties, but better. You won’t…
1 month ago
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And the Canadian Crowd Goes Wild!
Whether or not a “hometown advantage” is fact or fiction is a longstanding debate in the realm of sports. While this is Horse Network and…
1 month ago
Show Jumping
It Takes a Village, 52 Horses, and Eduardo Menezes
Winning, as a rule, most always feels good. But Eduardo Menezes had an extra reason to celebrate on Saturday at Thunderbird Show Park. The Brazilian…
1 month ago
Show Jumping
#TGFB: Thank God For Brighty
The hashtag is trending on Tiffany Foster’s Instagram. Thirteen-year-old gelding, Brighton, has given the Canadian rider plenty to be thankful for over their career. Her…
2 months ago
Show Jumping
“Take Five!” To Read the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of Canada Playbook
It’s been a season of captivating finales for fandoms everywhere. Avengers: Engame inspired superhero enthusiasts to turn our Facebook feed into a digital Marvel obituary.…
2 months ago
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…
2 months ago
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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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…
2 months ago
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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…
2 months 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…
3 months 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…
3 months 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…
3 months ago
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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…