Channel Archives: Sports

The inaugural Longines League of Nations Final ended the way every championship should—down to the wire. The defending champions versus the 2021 champions. Rising star Richard Vogel against former world...

Michael Pender is a U25 rider but you'd never guess that looking at his Jumpr stats. The Irish rider has amassed 339 international podium finishes, 27 Grand Prix titles and...

The first-ever Longines League of Nations™ Final takes place in Barcelona this weekend as the world's best teams vie for glory at Real Club de Polo. From the original 10-nation starting list,...

At just 29, Abdulrahman Alrajhi hasn’t spent much time competing stateside during his 13-year-long show jumping career.  He may need to start re-thinking that plan.  On Sunday, September 29, Alrajhi...

In a sport where women and men compete against one another as equals, the case for true egalitarianism in show jumping is famously hard to make. Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (GER) reached...

Three years ago Charlotte Reeve, then 15, had just moved to a new province and a new barn—for the third time in seven years—and was looking for her next horse...

Make no mistake: knowledge is power, but when it comes to show jumping statistics, it can also be a weighty responsibility. “His stats say, if I ride good enough, he...

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...