Channel Archives: Sports

Put three individuals in a room and ask them what color the sky is and you're bound to get different answers. People are funny like that. That's not the case...

Say, you wanted to incite a furor of media attention on Day One of the Olympics. Naturally, you'd recruit a few your most diabolical friends and evil acquaintances to ponder your...

Consider this your highlights reel from Day One of Eventing dressage in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. Now let's hope no one gets shot. Jessica Phoenix draws first in the order,...

Between the stage diving dancers, supermodel Gisele's strut down the world's longest catwalk, and a moving dedication to Mother Earth, there was much to applaude and enterain in last night's...

Eventer Camilla Kruger had a goal: represent her native Zimbabwe in the Olympics. The African nation of 15 million has never had an equestrian athlete qualify for the Olympic Games,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBagYaGnHkw Welcome to the Tevis Cup, aka The Western States Trail Ride. the granddaddy of all endurance rides. The views are stunning, but the challenges of the trail can stymie the...

Between his towering 6'4" frame and penchant for bold fashion choices, Danny Ingratta is hard to miss at the show ring. But it's his outgoing personality that makes the Canadian...

Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) is working with the USEF to ensure the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games remain in North America, Tryon Equestrian managing partner Mark Bellissimo confirmed today....

When news broke last week that Bromont will no longer stage the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, it sparked strong speculation that the games would return to the Kentucky Horse...

The first time I made the team it was by default. It was 2011. Andy and Carlene Ziegler (owners of Artisan Farms) had just bought me a horse, Southwind VDL,...

Every athlete in every discipline who's booked a ticket to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janerio, Brazil next month. But in easy to reference infographic form, so as to not...

The FEI has today announced that it is working on alternatives for the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2018 following mutual agreement between the FEI and Canadian Comité organisateur des Jeux...

Defending Olympic champion Michael Jung (GER) announced a last-minute change to his Rio mount on Facebook today. fischerTakino, the reigning European eventing champion, has been sidelined by an infection following...

Fun fact: Press releases submitted in Q&A format have a 98% chance of being published on Horse Network. Case in point: CHIO Aachen. Press release - Aachen, July 14th, 2016 An...

Some horses aren’t cut out for dressage. Like this horse, who isn’t a fan of musical interludes, nor non-alphabetic letter arrangements. Apparently. https://youtu.be/9AFJX-ArN24 The wallflowers of dressage, like our friend...

The Canadian Olympic Committee and Equestrian Canada have (finally) named the 10 equestrian athletes nominated to represent the maple leaf in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games next month. According to...

The first time that I competed seriously to make a team was in 1983. I was trying out for the Pan American Games on a Grand Prix horse called Romantico....

When Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin (GBR) asked Tom Hunt to put together a new freestyle compilation for the Rio Games presumably she asked him for something that would make your...

Blueberry is back! And looks ready to kill it in Rio. Charlotte Dujardin and the great Valegro (aka, Blueberry) returned to FEI competition for the first time in a year on...

Horse and rider selections for the 2016 Olympics are all but final. (Looking at you, Canada). We know who'll be representing in Rio De Janerio for most countries come August....