Hermes was famously known as the messenger of the Gods and the protector of travelers, merchants, and athletes. He was also a notorious speedster whose golden, winged sandals allowed him...
It’s the hope of show jumping owners and riders everywhere that they’ll one day have a championship-caliber horse on the barn aisle. But it's not always easy to sustain that...
Dana Matheson is best known in Langley, BC as an entrepreneur with deep ties to the sports community. He’s a former player on the Saint Mary’s Huskies football team and...
There was something about watching Dutch rider Sanne Thijssen and her charismatic stallion Con Quidam RB in action that brought to mind National Velvet, Black Beauty, or some other beloved childhood classic. ...
It was Geneva 2023 all over again. German wunderkind Richie Vogel and super-strided stallion United Touch S captured the second Major of their career with the Rolex Grand Prix at...
From one-hit wonders to dark horse victories, a singular triumph always runs the risk of being called a fluke. But to win the same, inaugural event two years in a...
Three-time 2024 Paris Paralympic gold medalist Fiona Howard underwent kidney surgery in December 2025, spending seven weeks in the hospital. Last week, at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, she set...
A lot has changed in recent months for Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB. For the last six years, the two-time, double-gold Olympic dressage medalists and reigning individual...
Darragh Kenny's winter season started late and is already trending higher. The Irish Olympian returned to competition February 13 following a provisional suspension in October for a positive drug test...
As a longtime fan of show jumping, there are few parts of the sport more rewarding than getting to watch your favorite stallions (and sometimes mares) competing against offspring they...
A single rail down became the drop score for Team USA in Round 2 of the Saturday Night Lights CSIO4* Nations Cup during Week 8 of the Winter Equestrian Festival....
Most people can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001 when news broke of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center...
Maria von Essen has been knocking at the door of a World Cup win in Gothenburg for three years. On Saturday, it opened. The Swedish rider finished second in the...
The Netherlands’ Willem Greve has been campaigning his longtime partner, the KWPN stallion Grandorado TN N.O.P., since he was jumping the international 5-year-old Young Horse classes back in 2016. This...
The floodlights at Wellington International cast their familiar glow over the International Ring Saturday night, illuminating a scene that has played out many times before: McLain Ward standing atop the...
“To sleep! perchance to dream.” —Hamlet In sports, athletes are often so closely connected with their trainer or coach that the one is indistinguishable without the other. Muhammad Ali and...
Hallowed Be Thy Name, Mimi Gochman. Breaking The Final Frontier of show jumping glory, the 22-year-old American rode to her first five-star and first World Cup victory in the 1.60m CSI5*-W...
France came to play in Abu Dhabi, fielding one of the strongest teams on the start list with four riders in the world top 100. And jumped to the top...
Afleet Alex, winner of both the 2005 Preakness Stake (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) after finishing third in that year's Kentucky Derby (G1) on the First Saturday in May, has...
Season 3 of the Longines League of Nations (LLN) gets underway February 13 in the United Arab Emirates where the world's top 10 nations will compete for the crown. Just...
