If the quest for a successful junior riding career is paved with good intentions, the road to a healthy trainer/parent relationship is often littered with them. Competitive riding in every...
No doubt the Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey said it best in their smash 1998 hit, which claims: “It's all just a little bit of history repeating.” Whether he was ever...
If fantasy football were played the same way in the sport of show jumping, it would all come down to how much horse power you could draft for your team. ...
Another day, another high-level dressage rider being suspended for training abuses. On June 19, the FEI announced that it had imposed a provisional suspension against Australian Olympic dressage rider Heath...
REDMOND, WASHINGTON—A new study from Microsoft has discovered that employees everywhere are struggling with what has been deemed "the rise of the infinite workday.” The research conducted by the tech giant has...
Every true fan of show jumping has a combination that they secretly (or not so secretly) love to love. Maybe it’s a clear bond of admiration and trust, like we...
A decade ago, the horse who would become an Olympic silver and Pan American team gold and individual bronze medalist under American rider McLain Ward was just a naive 6-year-old,...
Last week, as my senior horse was being treated for an aggressive skin infection, I asked my vet about turnout. After nearly a month of rain in New York, my...
There’s a certain level of guts required by Spruce Meadows’ sprawling grass fields and notoriously stout fences. For humans as well as horses, it's a facility that doesn’t exactly cater...
The last two months have seen a flurry of sanctions and eligibility decisions by the U.S. Center for SafeSport regarding a variety of professionals working in the U.S. hunter/jumper industry...
They Trapp family made music together, the "Flying" Wallendas owned the circus high wire. And the Coyle family of Derry, in Northern Ireland? They’re quickly proving that the family that posts...
There is a moment that high performance mental coach Dirk Stroda has learned to recognize on the face of his clients. It usually happens at a critical point in competition...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—How was the West won? It wasn’t by the use of horses, oxen, or other livestock according to an education mandate set down last week by the Oklahoma's...
Fairy godmothers don’t always wear pointy hats and arrive by pumpkin coach. Sometimes, they keep their wands under wraps. At least, that’s the case for British rider Charlie Jones’ unofficial...
A lot can happen in six years. Six years ago, in 2019, for instance, ChatGPT hadn’t yet been invented, Ben and Jen hadn’t reunited for a second time (or broken...
When GCTV presenter Marc Lewis spoke with Greek rider Ioli Mytilineou earlier in the week at LGCT Madrid, he asked at what stop on the tour he’d next see her. ...
Walking down that shoot into the show ring can be stressful enough on a horse you know well and just jumped in the warm-up ring—let alone one you’ve never met...
For most horseman, a small nick on your horse’s hind leg—one you might notice, say, while you’re grooming or bringing him in from the paddock—is par for the course. Superficial...
Long before she and Lordships Graffalo became the MARS Badminton Horse Trials winners for a second time, Ros Canter was a kid at home in her living room, screening footage...
Yesterday, Great Britain’s Oliver Townend and his veteran mount Ballaghmor Class led through 20-some dressage rounds on the morning of Day 1 at the Mars Badminton Horse Trials. Then, the afternoon came. ...
