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....
There's still plenty of excitement in store during the second half of the Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) season two. We’re exactly halfway through the 2022 season, and you know...
COLUMBUS, OHIO—Sick of finding her college-age daughter’s horse show ribbons constantly under foot, former barn mom Debbie Gentry got creative. “I just couldn’t stand to look at them anymore,” Gentry...
My husband and I lead separate lives. Not strictly in the traditional sense. We’re not consciously uncoupling, or Kris and Caitlyn Jenner-ing; no one, I hope, is pulling an Adam...
When you’re riding a horse named Serenade, you know you’d better bring the crowd a show. And that’s just what American rider Alice Tarjan did on Saturday night under the...
Beginning in early October, US Equestrian will create a new Chief of Sport position entrusted to the ever-so-capable hands of decorated U.S. eventer, David O’Connor. Just how decorated? Well, O'Connor...
To wash or not to wash? When it comes to dirty saddle pads, that’s pretty much always the question. Sure, the issue seems simple on its face. But there’s a lot more...
