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...
Don’t land on me. It was the only thought running through my mind as I catapulted through the air. Please, don’t land on me. It was supposed to be a...
Being a horse-kid mom is different than most sports. It’s not just carting your kid to a few practices a week or a game on the weekend. It’s all-consuming. It’s...
Owning your own farm sounds like a dream. And it is… just not always in the ways you pictured. For instance, you might imagine yourself walking out in the morning...
Brought to you by Three Mares. When I was 11, my mother bought me an off-track Thoroughbred named Justin, even though our family was already under serious financial strain. On...
For the 25+ years I’ve been involved in horses, my mantra had been “Never give up.” There’s always a way. Find a different job for the horse. Let him tell...
How do you inspire action when it comes to ending sexual misconduct? It’s a question I’ve been pondering a lot lately. Last month, #WeRideTogether’s Out of Bounds—a four-part series that...
