With the 2026 FEI Jumping World Championships in Aachen just around the corner, the show jumping spotlight is naturally focused on to the top, horse-and-rider combinations most likely to make...
Gibbs Un Prince is not a winner. At least not by conventional standards. The 10-year-old Selle Français (Number One D'Iso un Prince x Panama Tame) has only won two FEI...
The inevitable has occurred. Godolphin has announced that its all-time winningest globetrotting horse and worldwide fan-favorite Rebel’s Romance has been retired from racing. Over a career that spanned seven seasons,...
I love me a derby. It separates the men from the boys. The women from the girls. The horsemen from the hobbyists. But with philanthropic endeavors that fill a standard...
“Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?” Martin Fuchs enters the ring. He and his horse, Lorde, are fresh, having skipped the first round....
After nearly two decades living in Belgium and the Netherlands, Italy’s Piergiorgio Bucci was feeling, in his words, “heavy… deep within.” He missed his home country of Italy—the culture, the food, the...
“Look at the aggression!” Mark Bluman is flying at full speed, without a pause, without a thought, towards the fearsome permanent double liverpools that mark the penultimate obstacle in the...
Spruce Meadows is a world unto itself. A vast equestrian campus set on over 500 acres, filled with pomp and circumstance—marching bands, paratroopers, Mounties, triumphant prize givings, crowd-filled stands, and...
Last week, in the five-star Grand Prix at the Longines League of Nations in Rotterdam, a spectacular podium placing from a New Zealand rider had everyone asking “Who is Luke...
Hot on the heels of their first team sale, the Premier Jumping League, the new upstart show jumping league founded by Frank McCourt, announced it has secured FEI approval. Even...
The Premier Jumping League, the upstart show jumping league flush with $300 million in prize money guaranteed over its first three years, has its first team—sold for a cool $50...
Sometimes show jumping gives you lemons, and sometimes it gives you an inclement downpour in the middle of the Spruce Meadows International Ring. Rain or shine, World No. 2 Richard...
Max Kühner knows a thing or two about a champagne shower. The Austrian rider currently ranks among the top eight show jumpers in the world for 5* 1.60m podium finishes,...
The last time Caroline Harris made a five-star appearance was in 2024. It was at Pau, France. And she rode D. Day to a career first five-star win. This week,...
In The Netherlands on Sunday, the jump off for the Huawei Grand Prix of Rotterdam was flush with riders and their mounts—11 of them—so much so that this journalist, 4,582...
And then there were 15… Great Britain's Caroline Harris took over the CCI5*-L lead at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials after a cross-country performance on Saturday with D. Day. Mike...
It was a podium decided by bare fractions of fractions of a second! The third leg of the Longines League of Nations, taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, delivered a three-way...
Flawless. Riesenbeck International were flawless in Paris. Riding momentum of last week's Global Champions League win in St Tropez, they produced the only fault-free performance of the day to secure...
