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The fields and post-positions for Friday’s filly Kentucky Oaks and Saturday’s Kentucky Derby are final with the completion of the Derby draw this morning. The Kentucky Oaks will be race...

California is spending another summer beneath a canopy of smoke as wildfires continue to ravage communities statewide. Many equestrian facilities have found themselves in the path of the fires’ destruction—Rockridge Equine Rest and...

It's been a banner week for COVID-19 cancellations. While debate rages on about the pandemic's much anticipated second wave, one appears to be hitting equestrians square in the live events...

It’s August and for some of us, it’s that time of year when we’re glued to our social media feeds following that 1,000 kilometer jaunt across Mongolia—the Mongol Derby. As...

"I’m just happy with today, who knows what tomorrow brings?” That was American team veteran Margie Goldstein Engle after winning the $137,000 Four G Surfaces Grand Prix CSI3* at the...

A blink of the eye. That's the amount of time that separated first and second place in the $50,000 Meijer Grand Prix CSI2* in Week Two of the Great Lakes Equestrian...

Churchill Downs announced Thursday morning that it will allow spectators for the Friday, Sept. 4 Kentucky Oaks for three-year-old fillies and the 146th running of the Saturday, Sept. 5 Kentucky...

It was 2015 and a digital photograph that became the cover of the June 15 issue of Sports Illustrated announced that the Internet Era had arrived to all sports by...

Hunter/jumper trainer Robert ‘Bob’ McDonald has been permanently banned from horse sport and hockey by the U.S. Center of SafeSport due to sexual misconduct involving a minor. It’s the same...

The driver of a truck and horse trailer who plowed through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Tulsa, Okla. on Sunday night is under investigation by the Oklahoma...

The Australian state of Victoria has temporarily halted its plans to shoot wild horses after a cattleman filed an injunction in the Supreme Court of Victoria to stop the cull....

Horse showing is set to resume at Tryon International Equestrian Center in North Carolina on May 27. Or, more accurately, the post-COVID lockdown version of horse showing is to start....

In the longest spanning COVID-19 related cancellation yet, the World Equestrian Center (WEC) in Ohio is shuttering its doors to competition September 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021. Located in...

Canada’s governing body for equestrian sport is expressing disappointment that horse farms were excluded from a $252 million COVID-19 support package for agri-business that was announced by the federal government...

We're not crying. You're crying. The Spruce Meadows Masters tournament is not to be in 2020. Originally slated for September 9–13, Spruce Meadows announced that the annual 5* event, which...

There will be no sanctioned horse shows this month or next in Canada. Equestrian Canada (EC) has extended its suspension on sanctioned competition to June 30, 2020, due to the...

Looking for financial assistance? We caught up with Bryan Brendle of the American Horse Council to discuss what financial resources are available to American equine business owners in need. What...

The state of Georgia may be starting to reopen, but USEF competition is not. The suspension of all USEF owned and named events, selection trials, training camps, clinics and activities...

COVID-19 has impacted all facets of our lives, including the economy, with an estimated 10 million unemployment claims filed in March. Among them are horse owners, many of which now...

The 2020 Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event (JFI) will not be rescheduled this year. The CCI four- and three-star event, originally slated for May 6–10 at the Horse Park of...