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Count Me In is back. Over the past season, Ireland's Conor Swail has stepped the 16-year-old Hanoverian gelding (Count Grannus x Sherlock Holmes) back from the top level and out...

It all came down to the clock in the Galati Yacht Sales CCI4*-L on Saturday. Lucienne Bellissimo (GBR) maintained her lead at The Event at TerraNova on Tremanton after cross country....

"[The years] 2023, 2022 were my best seasons in my career," said Julien Epaillard. On Saturday, the Frenchman added a new feather to his cap: the title Grand Prix of...

Five-time World Cup champion Isabell Werth (GER) contested her first qualifier of the Western European League 2023/24 season at the Stuttgart German Masters this week. Was starting at the third...

"Success is a by-product of excellence," Deepak Chopra famously said. In four-in-hand driving, it's a product of Exell-ence. Australia's Boyd Exell swept the FEI Driving World Cup™ at the 37th...

Forget everything you read about the GCL Super Cup yesterday. If Thursday was dramatic, it paled in comparison to Friday as the stakes and fences went up in the GCL...

“She seems to like this venue. She performs well and actually breathes in the ring,” said Lucienne Bellissimo (GBR) after moving into the lead in the Galati Yacht Sales CCI4*-L...

Came, saw, conquered might be the best way to describe Four-in-Hand driver (and Horse Network publisher!) Misdee Wrigley Miller’s impressive week at the Royal Horse Show in Toronto.  Just how...

With championship pressure comes championship drama and the GC Prague Playoffs delivered both in spades on Thursday. Twelve teams contested the GCL Super Cup Quarter Final at the O2 stadium...

‘Tis the season for lion mascots, air acrobatics worthy of Cirque de Soleil, and show jumping fanfare that includes the liberal use of a flame throwers. (Are those white breeches...

They say when you’re hot, you're hot, and last week in Mexico at CSI5* MLSJ Monterrey, Richard Vogel & Cepano Baloubet were en fuego. The 26-year-old German rider and “Cepano” started...

Seven years ago, Kent Farrington and the then 9-year-old KWPN gelding, Creedance, topped an impressive field in the 2016 ‘Big Ben’ Challenge at the Royal Horse Show in Toronto.  For...

A week ago in France, reigning Olympic champion Ben Maher said “It would always be nice to have a second go!” after finishing third in the CSI5*-W Longines FEI Jumping...

When Daniel Bluman rode through the hitching ring tunnel into the Coca Cola Coliseum at the 101st Royal Winter Fair on Saturday, he was carrying a heavier burden than the...

Sometimes, all you need is a chance might well be the story of Daniel Coyle’s career. It also sums up the Irish rider’s latest result with Lothlorien Farm’s Legacy on...

Belgian Olympian Gregory Wathelet is on a mission to qualify for the 2024 Longines FEI jumping World Cup™ Final in Riyadh (KSA) next April. "I hope to get as many...

It was a home sweet home win for Ireland's Shane Sweetnam on Saturday. For more than a decade, the Irish import has held a summer residence in Lexington (USA), directly...

“As a kid growing up, I remember coming to The Royal and seeing all these amazing riders here and always dreamt that one day I could be here, so it’s...

Like whiskey and cheese, friendships and fine leather, some things just get better with age. Bluetooth OLD and Fredric Wandres are one such pairing. Since making their international debut in...

Stephan de Freitas Barcha wrote a new chapter in his story at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile this week. But the lead up felt like familiar ground. On...