If you’ve ever found yourself on the end of a leadrope, flying a horse kite… Or treating your show horse with bute and Previcox after a long week of competition…...
Alyssa Phillips is a name you should get used to hearing. The U25 ranked developing rider won the biggest event of her burgeoning career last month—the inaugural Lexington CCI4*-S at...
There's a photo on Facebook this morning of newly crowned American national champion Boyd Martin sitting in a water trough filled with ice and looking...blissful? Perhaps you've seen it and...
It would be easy to call Oliver Townend's three-peat at the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event (LRK3DE) a fairytale finish for a fairytale event. But that wouldn’t do justice...
The effects of Saturday’s gruelling cross-country efforts rippled through the CCI5* field Sunday morning at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, with multiple horses being held for re-inspection. Two-time defending...
In our admittedly small (virtual) circle watching the CCI5*-L cross country live-stream Saturday from the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event the word “carnage” was tossed around a fair bit....
The general consensus on the ground is that course designer Derek di Grazia has built one of the most challenging five star Kentucky Three Day Event (K3DE) courses to date....
They say close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and it doesn’t get much closer than this. Tamie Smith (USA) came within a hair's-breadth of knocking Marilyn Little (USA)...
“Every rider will probably say sitting on a horse is their religion. You have something big in life that you’re working through—you get on a horse and go ride. They...
American Marilyn Little dropped the best 5* dressage score seen at the Kentucky Three-Day Event (K3DE) since 2009—a score of 21.7 penalties—to move into first place with her “horse of...
Sixty-three of the world’s best horse and rider combinations presented themselves to the ground jury Wednesday afternoon at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian*. (*And a...
Valerie Pride owns and operates Blue Clover Eventing, born at least in part from the peculiar twist of fate that there is no option for professional women’s lacrosse as a...
As we start to figure out how to watch from home while working from home a plan for the #bestweekendallyear, here are some quick links for how and when to...
“It’s the hope that kills you.” —John Cleese and Ted Lasso, among others. Life’s rituals and routines can be calming, grounding and sometimes the only thing that gets you out...
Galway Downs in Temecula, California ran their first FEI event of 2021 this past weekend (March 26/27). In addition to their CCI2*, 3* and 4*-S, they also ran horse trials...
When you interview a rider as iconic as Ludger Beerbaum the most difficult decision isn’t what questions to ask, it’s trying to narrow down which of his incredible accomplishments to...
It takes a certain type of person to truly understand, and appreciate, the role that “chance” plays in the story of life. This week's guest on The Jay Duke Show,...
Boyd Martin (USA) won the 2020 Buckeye Nutrition USEF CCI4*-L National Championship this weekend with Christine Turner’s Tsetserleg. In doing so, Martin also earned the unofficial title of coast-to-coast champion,...
Michael Matz is best known these days as the Kentucky Derby winning trainer of famed racehorse Barbaro. But before he was making headlines at the track, he was making them...
The first of just two CCI4*-L of 2020 saw ten riders to completion, with U.S. Olympian Boyd Martin leading from the start to the very end, to finish on a...
