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...
OCALA, FL—"Did you see that?” exclaimed Adult-Amateur rider Judy Scott on the way out of the ring after completing her second, 36-and-over hunter trip of the afternoon. “There was something...
We talk a lot about the big problems in the horse world. Cost. Horse welfare. Ethics. Lately, I’ve been thinking about something smaller, but just as important. The little kindnesses...
Ali Kuhn is a Wisconsin-based eventer who made her four-star debut at the Kentucky Three Day Event in 2025. This is her story, brought to you by Three Mares. People...
It was the very last rail down of the opening course of the FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final: A single obstacle on a speed course of 16 individual efforts. In...
I’ve been hearing it often from trainer friends: kids just don’t seem to want to work the way they used to. And I see it myself. Many riders show up,...
The text came through: “Kent ‘I don’t pay much attention to my feelings’ Farrington.” Laughing emoji. It’s the last moments of the World Cup Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. I’m...
Two summers ago, I cleaned out the tack room in my parents’ barn. If anything accurately encapsulates my Vermont childhood, it is this old cow barn, home, over the years,...
