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...
The prize list for the much anticipated 2021 winter season at the World Equestrian Center – Ocala is out. With the grand opening set for January, the new show grounds...
In the midst of a pandemic, nobody wants to think about a second quarantine. But New Hope Stables is locking down and not for the coronavirus. Several horses at the...
The National Federation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been suspended by the FEI. Again. A detailed investigation into January’s The Sheikh Mohammed Cup and February’s The President's Cup...
In a year plagued by COVID-19 event cancellations, closures and other assorted bad news, Spruce Meadows is offering an optimistic take on 2021 —new show dates. And more of them!...
In a year like no other, the other horse won. Authentic proved his doubters wrong and led gate to wire, capturing the 146th Kentucky Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs in...
The feel-good story of this year’s star-crossed Kentucky Derby just took another bad turn. Finnick the Fierce has been scratched from tomorrow’s 146th Kentucky Derby “out of an abundance of...
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...
