Channel Archives: Sports

A rare portrait of a teenage Mozart. A McLaren Solus GT sports car. A rotating humidor containing 500, Cohiba cigars. They all come with a price tag of around €4...

Although he’s often described as “energetic” by his rider, there’s nothing brisk about how Harrie Smolders has produced longtime mount Monaco N.O.P. over the last seven years.   Slow and...

No matter how well you prepare, with horses, sometimes it’s your day, and sometimes, it just isn’t. It’s a story that nobody knows better than Kent Farrington and his 2024...

After a five-month hiatus, this Sunday, September 15 marks the return of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ series with the first North American League (NAL) qualifier of the season....

Welcome to fall! A season where, with just a few clicks on your phone, you can bet on something as trivial as the outcome of a football coin toss, or...

When Martin Fuchs won the CPKC International at Spruce Meadows in 2023, he jumped the final fence with a celebratory fist in the air, knowing he’d clinched the victory. It...

Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo added another five star feather and new Burghley record to their cap on Sunday. Adding just 1.6 time penalties to their dressage score, Canter and...

Cross country at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials (DBHT) lived up to its reputation as one of the biggest and most demanding courses in the world. Several of the event's...

When 21 of 33 starters fail to make the time allowed in a 5* 1.60m class and five more don't even complete the course, you have to ask: was the...

Only one rider could come close to Ros Canter and Izilot DHI's first day score of 19.9 on Day 2 of dressage at the 5* Defender Burghley Horse Trials: Ros...

It was a case of another day and another big win for power duo Richard Vogel and United Touch S of Germany. But just as soon as Vogel had completed...

The 2024 Defender Burghley Horse Trials is a truly blue-riband event. This year's starting lineup includes two of the 2024 Olympic team gold medallists—world no. 1 Tom McEwan and reigning...

The 93rd start was the charm for José Maria Larocca. The Argentinian Olympian has contested some 92 1.60m classes over the course of his considerable career. In the stirrups of...

Rene Dittmer and Corsica X have been knocking at the door of a big win and on Sunday at the Hampton Classic, it opened. Since 2022, Dittmer and the 11-year-old...

Victor Bettendorf was happy just to be qualified for the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Rome on Sunday. Then he won it. The Luxembourg rider is ranked no....

It may have taken them until the 13th stop on tour, but 2023 GCL Champions Riesenbeck International are officially back in business. Helmed by German riders Philipp Weishaupt aboard Coby...

Recently returned from the Paris Games, three-time Olympian Tiffany Foster is already casting an eye toward Los Angeles in 2024—and the potential mare to take her there. On Sunday, August...

Rain in the Netherlands is anything but rare, yet Lorenzo de Luca was anxious to break a seven-year drought under Sunday's Valkenswaard sun. A Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) Grand...

There’s a French horsemanship saying that native Virginie Casterman stands by:  “A good curry is like a scoop of oats.” As a longtime groom for McLain Ward's Castle Hill, Casterman...

It was one of the most dramatic show jumping moments of the Paris Games. After one of only 20 fault-free first-rounds in the qualifier, Martin Fuchs lost a stirrup early...