Laura Kraut rang-in her 60th birthday last November with a truly outsized accomplishment: a top 10 place in the Longines Rankings and her best Grand Prix season to date. Earning three,...
At age 16, Daniel Coyle’s longtime mount, Farrel, doesn’t always come out for the Grand Prix. But when he does, he almost always comes to play. Coyle and Farrel did...
Popular culture spends a lot of time on the concept of make-it-or-break-it shots, and the necessity of not wasting them. From the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s titular character in Hamilton—“I am...
Sometimes, a rider enters the jump-off intending to ride his own ride, regardless of the rest of the field coming before or after him. Other times, he or she has...
In show jumping, jumping clear, consistently, at any height is a rarity. But only a small handful of horses have that rare combination of physical and mental ability required to...
In the sport of show jumping, there were pretty much two names that dominated the conversation at the highest level last season. In the first corner, the reigning World No....
The month of December saw six professionals in the hunter/jumper industry either added to the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Centralized Disciplinary Database or movement in the response and resolution status...
LEXINGTON, KY—Looking for a top show pony at a fire-sale price? You may be in luck. A monthly horse and pony sales report published by Equine Auction Zone last month...
Multiple national titles, an Olympic debut, and two European Championship podium finishes. Four, 1.60m 5* Grand Prix wins and more than €5.6 million in career prize money—all by the tender age...
Explosion W was never a North American horse. But his career at the top, from its unofficial launch in Wellington, Florida in 2018, to its close last week at the...
The 2025 season was coming down to the wire for Max Kühner. The Austrian Olympian who took 7th individually in the 2024 Paris Games has a reputation for consistency at the...
This week, news broke that Snoop Dogg has accepted a voluntary role as an Honorary Coach for Team USA. The West Coast rapper, producer, entrepreneur, Martha Stewart-bestie, and self-confessed dressage...
It’s been a particularly electrifying year for horse sport in 2025, and this week, as they do every year, US Equestrian is allowing us to weigh-in on our year-end favorites. ...
You never see the face of “Emma,” the focus of #WeRideTogether’s short-form Out of Bounds PSA “It’s Not Just a Ride Home”—and that’s the point. While following Emma through the...
British rider Donald Whitaker is nothing if not effusive about his partner of three years, the 12-year-old OS mare Millfield Colette. In the past, he’s said that she’s “one in...
Every horse-crazy kid grows up with a picture of their future “dream horse,” locked away in the secrets of their heart. For Belgian dressage rider Justin Verboomen that horse is...
An Olympic gold and two-time silver medalist, a Pan American and World Championships team gold medalist, Laura Kraut, at 60, is currently having the best show jumping season of her career....
It was that plain-speaking, TV clinical psychologist Dr. Phil that popularized the phrase, “The best way to predict future behavior is past behavior.” And like most Dr. Phil-derived wisdoms (“cash...
Few horses in recent memory have been as well-known or beloved as the British dressage champion, Valegro. This week, the world said goodbye to “Blueberry,” who was humanely euthanized as...
If there was a resounding theme of the 2025 European Championships this summer, it was best summed up by commentator and former Irish Olympic show jumper, Jessica Kürten. “This has...
