Defending Olympic champion Michael Jung (GER) announced a last-minute change to his Rio mount on Facebook today. fischerTakino, the reigning European eventing champion, has been sidelined by an infection following...
Fun fact: Press releases submitted in Q&A format have a 98% chance of being published on Horse Network. Case in point: CHIO Aachen. Press release - Aachen, July 14th, 2016 An...
Some horses aren’t cut out for dressage. Like this horse, who isn’t a fan of musical interludes, nor non-alphabetic letter arrangements. Apparently. https://youtu.be/9AFJX-ArN24 The wallflowers of dressage, like our friend...
The Canadian Olympic Committee and Equestrian Canada have (finally) named the 10 equestrian athletes nominated to represent the maple leaf in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games next month. According to...
The first time that I competed seriously to make a team was in 1983. I was trying out for the Pan American Games on a Grand Prix horse called Romantico....
When Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin (GBR) asked Tom Hunt to put together a new freestyle compilation for the Rio Games presumably she asked him for something that would make your...
Blueberry is back! And looks ready to kill it in Rio. Charlotte Dujardin and the great Valegro (aka, Blueberry) returned to FEI competition for the first time in a year on...
Horse and rider selections for the 2016 Olympics are all but final. (Looking at you, Canada). We know who'll be representing in Rio De Janerio for most countries come August....
In London, 2012, Ian Millar set the record for being the first athlete from any sport, in any nation, to compete in 10 Olympic Games. He capped off the honor...
The USEF has named four athlete-and-horse combinations to the U.S. Olympic Show Jumping Team, plus one traveling reserve combination for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Show Jumping competition at the...
Ralph Jones was restless. An avid eventer, he'd long bemoaned the lack of events near his Hunterdon County, New Jersey home when one evening it hit him: “Why not bring back the Essex...
When Laura Graves (USA) and Verdades went supernova in 2014, skyrocketing from relative obscurity to a fourth-place finish at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, it seemed like they...
Hold onto your helmets! The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named the four athlete-and-horse combinations that will represent the U.S. Olympic Dressage Team in Rio de Janiero, Brazil come August....
Practice makes perfect for Four-in-Hand Pony National Driving Champion Lisa Stroud. Now if she could just remember the test... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNh8O3qUQpg Mortifying moments? We've all had a few. Send yours to carley@horsenetwork...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_0CvmTJFg With the July 18 deadline just weeks away, the race for Olympic team selection has rounded the final corner. Who will make the cut and be named a 2016...
She’s a Stanford student during the week and moonlights as a show jumper on the weekend. Jennifer Gates, daughter of tech-magnate-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, may be a billionaire by blood but...
James H. Fairclough II takes us back to the year 1958 with this postcard to his grandfather, Dr. Robert Rost, from famed American show jumper Frank Chapot. Rost and Chapot were business partners and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_55x5lFg_B8 Famous riders telling mortifying stories. WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?! This week, Canadian Olympian Yann Candele takes us back to that time his groom took a joy ride on his...
“Weird” isn’t a word that often comes up when an athlete describes her Olympic journey. “Thrilling” maybe, or “emotional”—“exasperating” even—and for Lauren Billys, all those words might apply. But “weird”...
Technically, this is a press release. But it comes in Q&A form so that makes it alright to publish. Or not. Either way, that's the way this Friday is rolling......
