After a long career in corporate communications, including more than 12 years as Chief Communications Officer at Levi Strauss & Co., Kelly McGinnis was used to being good at hard...
“I could have done better.” My daughter said it after a local derby where she finished fourth. In fact, I’ve heard that phrase a lot from her lately. At first,...
And now we’ve come to it: the end of the first season of Faultless: The Riders, their Horses, and the Pursuit of Excellence. We’ve skittered from the flamboyant foulness of...
By the time you read this, my first horse show in nearly 30 years will already be over. As I write this, it's three days away. I'm excited. I'm nervous....
American horse sport faces its most consequential inflection point since the post-war expansion—not because of any single crisis, but because the economic ecosystem that sustains the industry has outgrown the...
American horse sport faces its most consequential inflection point since the post-war expansion—not because of any single crisis, but because the economic ecosystem that sustains the industry has outgrown the...
American horse sport faces its most consequential inflection point since the post-war expansion—not because of any single crisis, but because the economic ecosystem that sustains the industry has outgrown the...
American horse sport faces its most consequential inflection point since the post-war expansion—not because of any single crisis, but because the economic ecosystem that sustains the industry has outgrown the...
Lameness, sickness, vet bills, heartbreak. What happens when the very thing that once lit you up, the thing you woke up for in the morning, that saved you, no longer...
I think I’ve got a new crush: Willem Greve. I didn’t want to say it during my previous recaps of Faultless: The Riders, The Horses, and the Pursuit of Excellence,...
Warning: Contains spoilers! As every reader of mine knows, my heart grows three sizes bigger every time Jumping La Baule comes up in conversation. Now imagine a six-part docuseries on...
For those of us intimately involved in show jumping, the sport is a complete and total obsession. It is rare that we think about anything else, even rarer that we...
I’ll be honest. I had preconceived notions about the “circuit kids.” You know the ones. The young riders that horse kids follow on social media. The ones who bounce from...
Kevin Babington is an Olympic show jumper and Irish Team veteran. In August 2019, he suffered a complete spinal cord injury after a fall during the Grand Prix at the...
Not every rider leaves a barn because of something big. Sometimes, they just slowly disappear. They stop asking questions. Then they stop lingering after lessons or feeling excited to go...
It’s been a long while since my horse and I had a truly epic miscommunication. But—as wont to happen in this sport where future kings hit the dirt just as...
