Channel Archives: Sports

For the past three months, Lucy Deslauriers plans have been shot. Sidelined by a shoulder injury and a surgery on her hand at the end of 2017, the American show...

Kristen Vanderveen (USA) came to Ocala, Florida this weekend with France in her sights. But she needed a minor miracle to get there. As the final qualifier in the North...

Fourteen legs, seven states, four provinces and eight months. The thrilling 2017/2018 Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping North American League officially came to a close at Live Oak International in Ocala,...

Fun fact: it's getting increasingly difficult to come up with creative ways to announce that Eric Lamaze (CAN) has won the WEF Challenge Cup. Yet again. Related: do you think it ever...

We're basing that highly speculative opinion on one fact: they share horses! Irish show jumper Darragh Kenny took second place in the $35,000 Douglas Elliman 1.45m Classic CSI 3* on...

Goosebumps. That's what Marcus Ehning's precisely executed roll back to the final oxer in the Rolex Grand Prix at the Dutch Masters in Den Bosch, Netherlands on Sunday will give...

You've heard the saying, "Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen"? Olympic show jumper Tiffany Foster (CAN) subscribes to the kinder, gentler, Canadian-er approach of "Call 'em king, get 'em to...

It was a scene out of a Hollywood blockbuster. Our underdog hero, a lanky redhead, gallops astride a bay mare, charting a carefully controlled track through a relentless downpour. A...

Remember when we reported on the heated battle between McLain Ward (USA) and Eric Lamaze (CAN) for the title of most WEF Challenge Cup victories? Not once, not twice, BUT...

Meet the new gold standard in ideal starts to a career! Private Practice, a recently appointed hunter, made his derby debut in the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at Deeridge...

Hunter heavyweight Liza Boyd (USA) landed from the final oxer in the Deeridge Derby ring to uproarious applause and a chorus of deepthroated "Woo, woo, woos" from the Kiss 'n Cry....

Last year, the nine-year-old gelding Private Practice was working his way up the jumper ranks at Eduardo Menezes' H5 Stables. Last month, he changed owners and professions. Purchased by Brad...

Easy as one, two, three, (four)... Wellington-based rider Alex Granato (USA) found a winning formula in Round 8 of the WEF Challenge Cup at the Winter Equestrian Festival on Thursday,...

Two five-star grand prix. Two victories for Israel. Two riders named Dan. We're sensing a pattern here? The show jumping featherweight that is the nation of Israel is dominating the...

Annnd they're coming up the long side.  Canada's Eric Lamaze leads the charge. The American is hot on his heels. McLain Ward makes a move on the inside. He's gaining ground....

How else do you explain the show jumper's superhuman ability to keep producing results? At a time in life when normal adults fill their days with the spoils of retirement...

At least that's what the World #1 ranked show jumper/beacon of positivity is calling it on Facebook. Olympic silver medalist Kent Farrington (USA) was thrown while competing in the 1.30m...

Technically, it was the feel good story of last week. But someone didn't get to the press release in time. [Points finger at self.] That's okay, though, because the glory...

“The pictures are obscene actually. She will go to a show and win three out of four classes like that.” That was Olympic gold medalist McLain Ward (USA) describing the...

When you're hot, you're hot. And right now Israeli show jumper Daniel Bluman is on tear of ghost pepper proportions. (That is to say, punishingly hot.) The streak started last...