Author Archives: Nina Fedrizzi

You’d better believe when you edge out tbird's winningest rider in a jump-off, the world is going to sit up and take notice.  That's just what happened on Wednesday at...

Knowing what to expect—and how to adapt—made all the difference for the Zone 10 rider.  Watching the first rider go on Wednesday during the FEI North American Youth Championships Pre-Junior...

A last-last minute bridle change helped the Zone 10 rider into the winner's circle. A bridle snafu led to a stellar result for Zone 10’s Lilah Nakatani during the first-round...

If you’ve logged into Jumpr App recently, you may have noticed things look a little bit different. A crisper, cleaner interface, for one thing, and rider photos that make it...

During the same month Eddie “Shorty” Sweat lay dying of multiple ailments, including cancer and heart disease, Western Horseman magazine released its December 1997 issue with an article commemorating the...

MEMPHIS, TN—A Tennessee woman startled friends and family this month with her decision to send her two teenage sons to live with relatives rather than sell her horses, Kip and...

When Harriet deLeyer was a young girl in the late 1950s, she and her siblings would take their father’s horse swimming in the Long Island Sound during the hot summer...

Evergate Stables horses don’t have a therapist. But if they did, he’d probably look and act a lot like Assistant Trainer Simone Besutti. Instead of a therapist’s chair, though, you’re...

You can’t be a practicing USEF member or even a casual participant in the sport these days without feeling the winds of change nipping at your heels. Mostly, they come...

HARTFORD, CT—When hostilities boiled over during her family’s Thanksgiving Day celebration, Pony Club rider Kylie Hutchins knew just what to do. “I’ve always been a people-pleaser, so in a way,...

The dawn mist rises slowly off the hay fields as light breaks gently across the Upstate New York horizon. It’s an ideal scene, until the stillness is broken by the...

SPRINGFIELD, MA—Third to return for her Round 2 course, equitation rider Ashley Fallow was making last-minute preparations to her horse’s Halloween costume and so did not have time to observe...

Maybe it’s the cobbled streets, the temperate climate, the romantic pink towers, and Spanish colonial architecture, or maybe the first-class galleries and restaurants. Possibly (probably) it has something to do...

MENLO PARK, CA—A new report released by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says that in addition to knowingly increasing depression and eating disorders among teenage girls, Instagram and Facebook are aware...

OSHKOSH, WI—That’s a wrap on the first annual Dairyland State Futurity Horse Show and organizers were less than circumspect in their evaluation of the event’s first go-around. At a press...

Houston, Texas—As Ivermectin de-wormer sales reached new heights across America under the largely unsupported premise that it can help treat COVID-19, a Texas horse has reportedly recommended that experimentally inclined...

When Babbie Styslinger arrives at her 56-acre farm in the town of Leeds, near Birmingham, Alabama, her presence rarely goes unnoticed. Sure, Babbie’s training partner Brandy Jewell Dempsey generally has...

Athens, GA—A Georgia trainer decided to break with convention when he opted not to mince words or use coded numbers in a recent sales ad for the seasoned Children’s Hunter,...

Dear Horse Sport, What a ride we’ve had. When I think back to my many years with you, both in and out of the saddle, I feel such a sense...

There are certain moments in sport that can never be replicated. One of them was Scott Brash’s last four jumps on his way to becoming the first and still only...