It was officially a Thijssen family affair on Sunday during the kick-off event of the 2025/2026 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Western European League season in Oslo, Norway, with no...
Eightieth. Eliminated. Twenty-six. Ninth. Seventeenth. Thirteenth. Sixteenth. Eleventh. If you looked at Cartania’s FEI finishes, a casual glance wouldn’t have made you pick her as a five-star winner. Until a...
She’s second to go. Earlier, she scored the second clear in a tough class, built big and technical. A course that took out top-ten riders Scott Brash and Christian Kukuk....
If the last few years have not yet proven, the 2025 edition certainly has. Horses that succeed at Maryland have the blood and grit to handle the terrain and intense...
“It’s 100% focus when you’re in there,” Monica Spencer gushed of her ride on the second day of the MARS Maryland 5*. “At that [final] salute, I thought, yeah, I...
Half the 22-horse field strutted before the ground jury on Thursday at the 2025 MARS Maryland 5* to start off the dressage and it's Boyd Martin in the lead after...
His name has become synonymous with speed, precision, and major victories: Hello Jefferson, the impressive gelding ridden by Scott Brash, made history this year by winning the CPKC ‘International’, presented...
It was the legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie who famously coined the phrase, “One coincidence is just a coincidence, two coincidences are a clue, three coincidences are a proof." Of...
There isn't much that's more American than the inaugural US Equestrian Open of Eventing Final CCI4*-L ending with an all-U.S. podium. A bald eagle might as well have swooped down...
Elegance is an attitude. And Harrie Smolders delivers like a postman. I keep being reminded of the former as I watch the Longines Global Champions Tour, streaming live from the...
If you asked Federico Fernández how he was feeling after his win in the CSI5* Otomí Grand Prix, he would say he’d already won long before he even stepped foot...
There’s a first time for everything, and Rene Dittmer (GER) was part of two big firsts at the Highlands Cup. In its inaugural year, sporting a star-studded roster of Olympic...
With only two stops left in the regular season, the GCL standings couldn’t be closer. On Friday, October 10, the Cannes Stars powered by Iron Dames came out swinging in...
And we have a jumpoff! We are in Barcelona at the Longines League of Nations Final. Eight nations plus the host country, Spain, are battling it out for the 2025...
When did I first fall in love? It was never supposed to happen. I was very young and in Chicago on a tourist weekend. Somehow I found myself attracted to...
Notorious B.I.G. captured the idea best in the lyrics of his profound, 1996 smash hit, Mo Money Mo Problems. Biggie would probably agree, though, that the moral of the song is about...
If you were taking bets who would win the LGCT Grand Prix of Vienna, Philipp Weishaupt and Kilmister would have been the 100 to 1 long shots. At 9-years old,...
At the 2012 Olympic Games, U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney became an inadvertent meme for the unimpressed face she made upon receiving a silver medal in vault. On Sunday at MLSJ...
Top-ranked tennis player Iga Świątek—who famously held the World No. 1 ranking for 125 weeks and has won six majors, including the French Open and Wimbledon in 2025—isn’t known for taking...
It’s the fourth leg of the Longines League of Nations (LLN) at the Polo Club St. Tropez. The last qualifying event before the Final will be contested in Barcelona two...
