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...
On Tuesday, February 10, McLain Ward’s partner of just under a year, Imperial HBF, was humanely euthanized following a severe episode of colic. According to Ward’s Instagram post, the 13-year-old...
At age 68, team gold and individual Olympic champion Nick Skelton doesn’t ride anymore, having officially hung up his saddle alongside his famous stallion, Big Star, one year after their...
You never forget your first five-star Grand Prix win. History won't forget Jessica Burke's. On Saturday, the 34-year-old Irishwoman cemented her place in the show jumping annals as the first...
Between the white tights, majestic animals with braided up-dos, and non-threatening air of camaraderie on the course walk, the sport of show jumping is about as gangster as pairs ice...
Lee McKeever is the Ernie to McLain Ward's Bert. The Oscar to his Felix. The Snoop Dog to his Martha Stewart. And, like all those great odd-couple partnerships, it just...
Laura Kraut rang-in her 60th birthday last November with a truly outsized accomplishment: a top 10 place in the Longines Rankings and her best Grand Prix season to date. Earning three,...
At age 16, Daniel Coyle’s longtime mount, Farrel, doesn’t always come out for the Grand Prix. But when he does, he almost always comes to play. Coyle and Farrel did...
It's said that "life begins at 50." Usually, it's said as a platitude. The kind of thing you write on birthday cards to your middle-aged friends to make them feel...
If 2025 had a theme for Shane Sweetnam, he'd tell you it was his "runner up" year. “We’ve been second a lot, which was my year last year," laughed the...
Popular culture spends a lot of time on the concept of make-it-or-break-it shots, and the necessity of not wasting them. From the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s titular character in Hamilton—“I am...
Sometimes, a rider enters the jump-off intending to ride his own ride, regardless of the rest of the field coming before or after him. Other times, he or she has...
Julien Epaillard’s jump-off strategy with Donatello D'Auge in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Amsterdam was the same one the flying frenchman routinely—and reliably—executes: “start fast and after go quicker!”...
When Fasther joined Lillie Keenan's string in January 2019, the young American had one international Grand Prix win on her record. A CSI2* 1.50m on Fibonacci 17 earned the year...
