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Devon Horse Show and Country Fair (DHSCF) will not run in 2021, show organizers announced today. But this time it's not the pandemic shouldering the blame. It's bureaucracy. Originally scheduled for...

A horse died in competition on Sunday, March 28 at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Lord Pizarro, an 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding ridden by Ansgar Holtgers Jr. (USA), fell while attempting a...

Women's History Month just got a little richer. Olympic veteran Margie Engle and McLain Ward’s two-time Olympic mare Sapphire have been elected Show Jumping Hall of Fame Class of 2020....

The Show Jumping Hall of Fame Class of 2019 is official! Olympic gold and silver medalist Leslie Burr Howard and Olympic judge and longtime FEI Steward General David Distler have...

The FEI World Cup™ Finals have been canceled for the second year in a row. This time it's ongoing outbreak of the neurological form of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) in...

It's International Women's Day! To celebrate, Hannah Selleck, Georgina Bloomberg, Laura Kraut, Mavis Spencer and Karen Polle are inviting you to hang out. Virtually. And listen as they share their...

The Spruce Meadows Summer Series has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But there's a replacement series in the works. The 5*...

Show riders have long bemoaned the low purses offered in hunter divisions. Traverse City Horse Show (TCHS) is looking to change that in 2021. The Michigan-based series has added a new...

Caledon Equestrian Park in Ontario, home of the 2015 Pan American Games, is under new management. But it's a team that is on familiar ground. Angelstone Group, headed by president...

Horses have long been a part of the American story, since Christopher Columbus' second voyage brought Spanish horses first to the Virgin Islands, and, in 1519, they were introduced on...

New year, same problems. Following in the footsteps of 2020 and the shortest show season on record this century, the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event (LRK3DE) has cancelled its famed...

Influential 18th Century French chemist Antoine Lavoisier famously wrote, "I am young and avid for glory." So too are the youth riders who will contest the 2021 Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI)...

Following a year of unprecedented challenges, Okanagan Show Jumping Stables is ready to celebrate. To mark the 30-year anniversary of its landmark move from Germany to the beautiful Okanagan Valley...

If you wanted a sign that 2021 was going to be an improvement over the dumpster fire that was 2020, this might just be it. The United States Equestrian Federation...

You may have heard of the Mongol Derby, aka the world’s longest and toughest horse race, aka a 1,000 kilometre equestrian adventure across Mongolia atop several semi-wild beasts. Well, The...

The above photo depicts the Paris leg of the Longines Global Champion Tour/League of years past. You can clearly see the Eiffel Tower in it. But you cannot touch the...

Tackling long put off home improvement projects has been a popular pandemic pastime. Jan Tops is no exception. The brain force behind the Global Champions Tour/League spent a bit of...

Boyd Martin (USA) won the 2020 Buckeye Nutrition USEF CCI4*-L National Championship this weekend with Christine Turner’s Tsetserleg. In doing so, Martin also earned the unofficial title of coast-to-coast champion,...

These are weird times that seem to give rise to new reasons to feel stressed, sad and/or outraged on an hourly basis. It's...a lot. But there's one fellow who's having...

If there's one theme from 2020 that seems determined to spill over into the new year, it's that nothing is as it was. And it could be some time before...