For a long time, I believed I knew exactly what success with horses was supposed to look like. There was a destination, and everything I did was measured against whether...
Like many professionals, falling off comes with the territory for Canadian show jumper Will Martin. But after the 20-year-old was cleared to jump again after an unplanned dismount, he noticed...
It was Memorial Day weekend, 1990, at American Beach in Nassau County, Florida. The ocean was rough. Rip currents churned just offshore. And there were no lifeguards. The county had...
September 2026 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Indianapolis Star investigation that first exposed Larry Nassar's extensive crimes against gymnasts, and USA Gymnastics' repeated failure to address internal allegations despite years...
Rome wasn’t built in a day. The mightiest oak grows from a tiny acorn. Every journey begins with a single step. We roll our eyes at clichés because we’ve heard...
Show jumping has started flooding all our screens. On the heels of the release of Faultless, Box to Box Films producing a series on the upcoming inaugural season of the...
This excerpt is from Chapter 15: The Doctor Is In of A Horse's World, the newest book by neuroscientist Janet Jones PhD: Animals of all kinds make most people feel...
There are moments in every horseperson’s journey when we suddenly realize how much we don’t know. Sometimes it happens when we ride a horse that exposes gaps in our understanding....
How do you summarize a life, let alone one as extraordinary as Olympic show jumper Kevin Babington’s, in a single story? You simply can’t. You write a book. That’s precisely...
When I look back on my early years with horses, what stands out most isn’t any one horse, lesson, or achievement—it’s the constant change. Different horses, different personalities, different challenges....
In the horse world, performance and welfare are often talked about as though they live on opposite ends of a spectrum. On one side, there is ambition. Goals. Excellence. Precision....
Caracole de la Roque. Donatello d’Auge. United Touch S. King Edward along with, at one point, two-thirds of the Swedish Olympic team. All of these championship horses have one thing...
In the World of Welly (Wellington, Florida), it is said that any horse less than eight years old walks around in a cloak of invisibility. Expenses are high, riders are...
Every entry is a winner in the Meadow Grove & Friends 1.20m Open Classic, sponsored by Meadow Grove & Friends and benefiting the 501c3 #WeRideTogether. And not just in that...
For four years, Lindsay Archer was on cloud nine. From 2018 to 2022, she had a string of competitive top jumpers, including Jarpur, with whom she won several three-star and...
There’s a saying that goes, “all horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl." What a world we would live in if every...
American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead famously said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world." That same philosophy is the one driving Three Mares....
The month of December saw six professionals in the hunter/jumper industry either added to the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Centralized Disciplinary Database or movement in the response and resolution status...
#WeRideTogether is a nonprofit organization on a mission to make the youth and amateur sport environment safer and healthier for all athletes. And that starts with each and everyone of...
You never see the face of “Emma,” the focus of #WeRideTogether’s short-form Out of Bounds PSA “It’s Not Just a Ride Home”—and that’s the point. While following Emma through the...
