If you’ve been hearing the buzz about North America’s best kept show jumping secret—the Otomí Club Hípico in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico—here’s one more reason to add it to...
With the good looks and stark white coat of a movie star horse, the textbook front end of a top performance hunter, and string of accolades to rival the greatest...
When it comes to the Grooms Award, Ltd., there’s some good news and some bad news. The bad: After 25 years in operation, 2023 will mark the end of the...
Whether throwing the perfect baseball game, finding your stride to a 1.60m oxer in the jump-off, or landing a 720-degree double salto off the balance beam, earning a place at...
If you’ve been following the Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) league-dominating Helios team at all this season, you may be wondering what’s in their secret sauce. You're not alone. Ask any...
Every time I mount a horse, I’ve started do this new thing. It began with my own horse, back in the early days when I was newly pregnant, and he...
OCALA, FLORIDA—After watching the annual Presidential Turkey Pardon earlier this week, a Florida trainer was inspired to grant clemency of a different kind. On Wednesday, Alice Abrahams led her fleet of...
Baseball legend Babe Ruth once famously said, “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games,” and the same might be said about show jumping. In a sport where clear rounds and...
They may have come away with silver, but the U.S. Show Jumping Team at FEI Jumping Nations Cup Vilamoura CSIO3* looked good as gold in Portugal this weekend. France rode...
There was a lot on the line during Thursday night’s CSI 4* Las Vegas National “All In” Speed Classic, and Lillie Keenan made up for it when it counted. With a...
People talk a lot about unicorns these days, but I’d like to put a word in for the ‘class horse.’ Of course, if you’re lucky enough to have either of...
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO—A New Mexico woman has legally divorced her husband in order to take the next spiritual step with… Her horse. Aesthetician and lifelong rider Trisha Thomas recently...
It took a decade, but it was a decade well spent for Canada’s Ali Ramsay. The Victoria, B.C.-based rider, 31, led from start to finish aboard Bonita vh Keizershof Z in...
LEXINGTON, KY—The American governing body for horse breeding has issued their updated in-hand guidelines for the 2023 season, and handler eyebrows are the newest criteria to make the list. “In...
Get ready: Wild card applications are being accepted now for the 2023 USEF Horsemastership Training Series. This winter, the country’s most prestigious jumping clinic will return to Wellington, Florida during...
SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA—Top hunter judge Peter Swifton, who officiated a number of hunter classes at the 2022 Scranton Horse Show this spring, is refusing to return boxes containing hundreds of pages...
You know we love horse people. Horse people work hard. Horse people are fun (mostly). Horse people would do next to anything for their animals. But technologically savvy? Ehh—not so...
Sometimes it takes a miracle to accomplish great things. More often than not, it takes an act of faith. “If you build it, they will come,” was the ghostly incantation...
If you have someone in your acquaintance that happens to have a connection to royalty, it's best to hope that person also lacks a sense of humor. Unfortunately, for legendary...
I am. Guilty as charged. I sold my first pony, Cinnamon, to another young girl in the barn when I was 16, and had clearly grown too big for him....
