Forget no-stirrup-November. For many riders (**raises hand**) there is literally nothing scarier than trot jumps. Unfortunately for us, according to 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games Team gold medalist and 2018...
Plenty of riders get lucky once or twice in a top-level show jumping career. But maintaining five-star success for years at a time? That’s something different altogether. For Dutch Olympian...
If he was looking to have a good week for his up-and-coming horses, Shane Sweetnam came to the right place. The Irish rider took home a string of wins and...
Another day, another big win for Caroline Pamukcu. The Pennsylvania-based rider reigned victorious with and HSH Connor in the USEF CCI3*-L National Championship at the MARS Maryland 5 Star in...
On Saturday, October 21, Mikala Münter and Skyfall took third place in the FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix Freestyle at TerraNova Dressage II in Myakka, Florida. But their well-earned yellow ribbon is just part...
Lauren Nicholson (USA) and her homebred mount took the lead on home soil Thursday in the USEF CCI3*-L Eventing National Championship at the MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill. Twenty-three horses...
WILMINGTON, OH—An adult amateur rider at the Midwest Equestrian Center was forcibly removed from a flat class this week for heckling her fellow riders in the 36 & Over Adult...
Nayel Nassar did not have the fastest jump-off round of the evening on Saturday, October 14 during the CSI4* Grand Prix at Tryon International Equestrian Center. Yet despite stopping the...
The Pan American Games are here! Taking place October 20 to November 5, 2023, the annual regional championship is being held, for the first time ever, in Santiago, Chile. As...
On Monday, October 9, the FEI released a statement summarizing their decision pursuant to an anti-doping case against retired Canadian Olympian Eric Lamaze. Lamaze was charged with “fabricating medical documents...
At 28 years old, there aren’t many jobs that Gunner, a former cow horse, is still qualified to do. His feet are sore, so he requires special padded shoeing to...
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, at the farm to the north called Lothlorien, the very grand dreams of Irish show jumper Daniel Coyle began to take...
It’s a familiar formula in everything from storybook fairytales and Star Wars blockbusters to Hogwarts lore in Harry Potter. Hapless pupil learns from teacher, competent pupil challenges teacher, (now) masterful pupil defeats teacher. It’s...
Mustang training is a kind of calling, no matter how you arrive at its door. For 24-year-old trainer Tori Bromme, that call came in a very 21st century way. In...
DUBLIN, OHIO—In a conversation they have had many, many times before, Amanda Grant’s 50-something parents struggled to understand their grown daughter’s current financial choices. Having ridden horses for nearly 20...
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY—Fresh off a week of round-the-clock observation at the 2023 USEF Pony Finals, Thomas Casing, a social anthropologist with the University of Michigan, came away with some revolutionary insights...
As Kermit the frog once lamented, it’s not easy being green. But it's really not that hard, either. Taken on balance, equestrian facilities are not considered by experts to be...
The best part? Absolutely no one is shocked. Over the last century and a half, we’ve had the rare opportunity to witness standout achievements by women in gender-blind athletic contests. ...
We’re just about a year away from the 2024 Paris Games—ooh la-la!—and it’s getting down to the wire for team qualification in dressage, eventing, and show jumping. The first events...
Not only does she have one of the most unforgettable names in the horse business, Rosalind Canter is a serious contender. Having come up the ranks on a combination of...
