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,...
LOXAHATCHEE, FL—Carlos Moyas's shift at Dee’s Tid-Bits tack and farm supplies store on Avenue G started as it usually did last Thursday. And then took a wildly unexpected—and wet—turn for...
There is a question that hangs over Road to the Horse (RTTH), even if no one says it out loud: How much of the progress made during those three days...
Richie Vogel could not stop laughing. We were at the press conference, sitting in the front row. We had been in the second row on the other side, but I...
There are moments during Road to the Horse when everything looks… I guess you would say, quiet. To first timers like me, it can look like nothing is happening. But...
Horse shopping is exhausting, especially when you’ve been searching for years with a limited budget. It’s hard enough when you’re shopping for yourself. But when you’re searching for your child,...
The week the paparazzi descended upon Eyecandyland... Eyecandyland is what we call the farm here in Wellington, Florida—center of the horse world and home of Eye Candy Jumpers. I live...
(Note: Your columnist continues to miss deadline while struggling with delirium from a persistent virus and an onerous seasonal workload.) “You appear to me to be the sort of man...
It was supposed to be a mini-break—a weeklong vacation in Dubai. Then the missiles started falling. Canadian show jumper Graham Williamson and his wife, Jennifer, followed their 18-year-old son, Locklyn, to Spain...
Mackenzie Drazan Cook is an amateur equestrian and the wife of American Olympic show jumper Karl Cook. After losing her teenage sister to suicide, Mackenzie founded the nonprofit TEAM and the...
As a former member of the National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) National Advisory Board, a UC Davis alum, the parent of a former Division I equestrian athlete, and an avid...
I was on a writing retreat in a tourist town, dining with a few generous strangers, when one asked what I was working on. "I'm writing a book about horses,"...
