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Unrelated aside: my hotel neighbours in Guadalajara, Mexico also got lucky on Sunday night. Four times.  But back to Ben Maher. The Olympic team gold medalist from Great Britain rode...

America's reigning queen of dressage has her crown firmly in place. In their first international appearance of the year, Laura Graves and her Olympic partner Verdades captured the FEI World...

If Saturday's night's Grand Prix in Wellington was decided by most inspired jump-off track, Adrienne Sternlicht (USA) was the clear winner. Of the 45 riders to contest the $132,000 Adequan®...

Most riders aim for a good experience in their first World Cup Grand Prix. Luis Alejandro Plascencia (MEX) went for the win. The 26-year-old rider made his debut in the...

Who will win the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Guadalajara? We called in equestrian sport scientist, Dr. Tim Worden, to pick his top three contenders. Dr. Worden has a PhD in...

Another week, another WEF Challenge Cup win for Eric Lamaze. The three-time Olympic medalist from Canada beat 85 entries to capture the $35,000 Equinimity WEF Challenge Cup III for the 25th...

"He’s such an unassuming character,” said Marilyn Little (USA) of her top mount Clearwater. “When you see him at the side of the ring, he may as well have a...

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...