Channel Archives: Sports

Germany's Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, a rider inexplicably immune to helmet hair, won the first Saturday Night Lights Grand Prix of the 2018 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). Riding Calle 67, the 2016 Olympic...

Crepes from Loopy's, drinks at the Players Club, Eric Lamaze winning the WEF Challenge Cup—some things you can count on every year at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). Twenty-eighteen is...

Lilly Ward, the only known preschooler to own an international horse, celebrated her first victory of the winter season on Wednesday. Ward's rider, McLain, who also happens to share 50...

“I am convinced that life is ten per cent what happens to me and ninety per cent how I react to it.” —Charles R. Swindoll, “The Grace Awakening” July’s sweltering...

With just four qualifying events left in the North American League (NAL), the race to the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final is rounding the homestretch. Fourteen NAL riders will...

Last year, Emily Moffitt (GBR) realized every rider's worst nightmare when she lost her top horse to an accident in the show ring. Competing in the Great American $1 Million...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try (eight more times) again. That was the unspoken motto for the blue team going into last night's Battle of the Sexes,...

It's a well known fact among journalists that press conferences are sometimes boring. Maybe nothing terribly exciting happened in the class. Maybe the winner is not the talkative type. Or...

On Thursday, Ireland's Jordan Coyle scored one of his biggest victories in the United States to date. And he has American show jumper Andy Kocher to thank. The 24-year-old Irish...

World number three McLain Ward (USA) started the New Year the way he aspires to start every day—winning. The Olympic team gold medalist rode Hija van Strokapelleken to a decisive victory in...

The first CPEDI competition of the season trotted down the centerline at the Equestrian Village of the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) in Wellington, FL last week. The event...

From a borrowed horse to a gifted wet suit to a run in with the police, Ireland's Michael Blake shares his year long journey to set the bareback puissance world...

Overthinking in equestrian competition causes problems. Too many thoughts demonstrate a lack of trust and lead to hesitation, confusion and uncertainty in your abilities in the show ring. I’d like...

Marion Coakes and Stroller. Lisa Carlsen and Kahlua. Mario Deslauriers and Aramis.  Every now and then a rider lucks into their "horse of a lifetime," the one special mount that will make their name in...

If anyone is uniquely qualified to offer tips for keeping the sport horse fit and sound, it's Ashlee Watts. As the director of the Comparative Orthopedics and Regenerative Medicine Lab...

This week in eventing news, Germany's loss is Italy's gain. The FEI announced yesterday that the team medals for the FEI European Eventing Championships in Strzegom, Poland have been reallocated...

Looks like Maikel van der Vlueten won't have to name his first born after Chloe Reid after all. In the pre-game build up for the Riders Masters Cup, a two-team...

It's a battle that's been 100 years in the making. A war waged in fields, stadiums and the hearts of show jumping fans the world over. One where Nations Cups, World...

Twenty-seventeen will go down in horse history as The Year America Won. Three-time Olympic medalist McLain Ward finally captured the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping title. Kent Farrington became the...

Let me start this letter off by saying I have been a fan for years. I’ll admit, I have a semi-worrying YouTube addiction and find it easy to get sucked...