In March of 2014, Jamie 'Dodge' Manning's life changed forever. The rancher and rodeo rider from Dubbo, Australia, was driving home to his farm when his sport utility vehicle veered...
Tragic news out of HITS Saugerties this week. Twenty-two-year-old Rebecca "Becca" Weissbard suffered a fatal fall while competing at the HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII in New York on Aug. 31. Weissbard was showing...
Less than one month to go until the kickoff of season 2 of the Longines Masters Series, which will begin with the Longines Masters of Los Angeles (September 29—October 2),...
Great Britain's Nick Skelton is appealing his four faults at the water jump on Day 2 of the jumping qualifier at the Rio Olympics after the jump judge ruled his...
Day 1 of show jumping at the Olympic Games in Rio. If you were Germany's alternate rider, Meredith Michaels Beerbaum, you'd be looking forward to a relaxing day of cheering...
Lots of athletes have pre-competition rituals to settle jittery nerves. For Russia's Inessa Merkulova's 12-year-old Trakehner Mister X, that ritual involves his owner reading novels to him before their Grand...
After jostling for the leading position for over 620 miles, three riders agreed to cross the finish line of the Mongol Derby together, holding hands. Canadian Heidi Telstad, Australian William...
The horse show circuit can be a bit of a bubble for junior riders. Sure, there are plenty of fancy horses to go along with those long days, early mornings,...
This May at Rolex, U.K.-based American eventer Liz Halliday-Sharp and her 12-year-old Irish Sporthorse, HHS Cooley, completed their first CCI****, finishing in 40th place with a clear cross-country round. The...
It's been an eventful two days for Richard and Kaylen Spooner, who were forced to evacuate their farm and horses on the evening of July 24th following the spread of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W46HzrHIpwk In the last decade there has been an explosion of research into mental health and suicide within veterinary medicine. A 2008 U.K. study first raised alarm bells when it...
When Michael Morpurgo, the children's writer who first penned the book, War Horse, in 1982 heard that Nick Stafford was planning to adapt his story for the London stage, his first...
Sometimes the best way to disguise something of value is to hide it in plain sight. Right under their noses. A place they'll never see it coming. Unless of course,...
Charles Borell and his daughter Maria Borell have been charged with 43 counts of second degree animal cruelty by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Mr. Borell was arrested on Wednesday...
It was the dressage scandal that launched 1,000 panicked Facebook comments, but it looks like Carl Hester's London Olympics mount, Uthopia, will stay right where he is supposed to be. The...
This week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Deputy Director, Steve Ellis, delivered an address to Congress on the federal agency's most daunting and polarizing responsibility: managing the wild...
She may be known for playing bada*s warrior women (see: Kill Bill's The Bride and Batman & Robin's Poison Ivy). But Uma Thurman was the one in need of some rescuing while riding horses...
The United States Equestrian Federation Board of Directors elected Murray S. Kessler as its next President at the Mid-Year BOD Meeting in Gladstone, N.J. on Tuesday. The President ultimately presides...
The USEF has named four athlete/horse combinations to the U.S. Olympic Eventing Team and one traveling reserve for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Four direct reserve horses have also been...
Legendary equestrian Frank Chapot passed away on June 20 at the age of 84. A six-time Olympian and two time Olympic silver medal winner, Chapot had been living in an...
