Multiple national titles, an Olympic debut, and two European Championship podium finishes. Four, 1.60m 5* Grand Prix wins and more than €5.6 million in career prize money—all by the tender age...
Explosion W was never a North American horse. But his career at the top, from its unofficial launch in Wellington, Florida in 2018, to its close last week at the...
Back in July, four Belgian boys (boys, simply for the alliteration, had they hailed from Malaysia or Madagascar they would have been men) took team gold at the Longines FEI...
The 2025 season was coming down to the wire for Max Kühner. The Austrian Olympian who took 7th individually in the 2024 Paris Games has a reputation for consistency at the...
“Action is redemption,” wrote beloved American poet Emily Dickinson and for American Olympian Kent Farrington at CHI Geneva on Sunday, that was precisely the plan. The world no. 1 made...
“I told myself that I was just going to try to go and not touch the reins and see what happens,” said Callie Schott of her strategy aboard Garant in...
“The horse jumped to win tonight, the rider rode to lose.” The spotlight is on Kent Farrington, world number one, making his blue eyes glow in the darkened arena. “That...
British rider Donald Whitaker is nothing if not effusive about his partner of three years, the 12-year-old OS mare Millfield Colette. In the past, he’s said that she’s “one in...
Every horse-crazy kid grows up with a picture of their future “dream horse,” locked away in the secrets of their heart. For Belgian dressage rider Justin Verboomen that horse is...
An Olympic gold and two-time silver medalist, a Pan American and World Championships team gold medalist, Laura Kraut, at 60, is currently having the best show jumping season of her career....
Willem Greve’s (NED) 10-year-old mare Pretty Woman Van’t Paradijs N.O.P. is not just a looker, she’s now also a two-time winner of FEI World Cup qualifying action along the Western...
It was that plain-speaking, TV clinical psychologist Dr. Phil that popularized the phrase, “The best way to predict future behavior is past behavior.” And like most Dr. Phil-derived wisdoms (“cash...
Few horses in recent memory have been as well-known or beloved as the British dressage champion, Valegro. This week, the world said goodbye to “Blueberry,” who was humanely euthanized as...
World no. 1 eventer Harry Meade doesn't like a challenge. He lives for one. And that's saying something considering what he's already overcome. In 2013, the Brit broke and dislocated...
Eleven-time World Cup champion Boyd Exell (AUS) is always tough to beat behind the reins of his four-in-hand team. But his competition had to have hope that a broken foot...
According to the Chinese calendar, 2025 is the year of the snake. But in show jumping, it's unquestionably the year of Kent Farrington. With one month still to go, the...
If there was a resounding theme of the 2025 European Championships this summer, it was best summed up by commentator and former Irish Olympic show jumper, Jessica Kürten. “This has...
American eventer Andrew McConnon has been suspended for 20 months and fined CHF 2,500 by the FEI Tribunal for horse abuse. McConnon is the second international competitor to be suspended...
No trip to Prague is complete without a glimpse of the city’s famed, medieval Orloj clocktower. But the 15th century astrological clock, deemed by many to be a wonder of the...
Fourth of July fireworks, changing of the seasons, Apple releasing a new iPhone—some things you can count on happening every year. McLain Ward winning a 1.60m Grand Prix is one...
