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I’ve turned melancholic. I sit in a chair facing the sea, unmoving like a sentry. I spend long minutes, maybe hours, watching the water and trying to find words to...
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I’m sitting on my bed at home in Wellington, Florida. I have been tasked by my editor to indulge in what I’m terming “remote reportage,” the job of covering the...
In April 2023, Hometown Halsey—an off-the-track Thoroughbred mare born in 2015—arrived at Days End Farm Horse Rescue, in Woodbine, Maryland. She was underweight and in need of the care and...
Picture this: You are working on your horse show entries and, for each show, you check off the category of adult amateur. Not junior or young rider. Not open or...
When asked what kind of horse I dreamed about, I rarely answered an Andalusian, Friesian, Buckskin, or Blue Roan. I turned and said, "a broke one." When I finally bought...
When Caroline Howe wrote an open letter to USEF on May 27 that was published in The Chronicle of the Horse, she blew open a conversation about dire horse welfare...
I love reading obituaries. I know that sounds weird. I just like the idea that your entire life story can be summed up in a few short paragraphs. And the...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one can be brilliant at riding a horse or brilliant at love-making, but not both. “And I don’t ride,” I often add suggestively...
When Ariel Grange got a call from her mother, Sue, telling her Daniel Coyle was joining their Lothlorien Farms team in 2016, she wasn’t happy. “My mom called me and...
My earliest memories of the barn are of my family. Saturday mornings, my sister and I would go riding at Childress Rodgers Stables and then after we’d hang out with...
The barn was always my sanctuary, my space to breathe. Horses were supposed to equate to my happiness. But so often, that peace was overshadowed by stable drama or discontent....
“McLain.” The old man was looking me dead in the eye. We were both perched on the edge of wide stone steps that formed an oval amphitheater with a wide...
Finally, the day dawned at the Royal Windsor Horse Show when the stakes were high enough. I think about "stakes" a lot. In sport, and in life. In the movie...
“Step back! Step back! (Unintelligible) is coming through!” “Who?” “(Unintelligible)!” “Who’s that?” “PRINCE Edward!” “Who?” The woman looks at me like I’m crazy. “I’m sorry, I’m like…super American.” A group...
