Channel Archives: Sports

In London, 2012, Ian Millar set the record for being the first athlete from any sport, in any nation, to compete in 10 Olympic Games. He capped off the honor...

The USEF has named four athlete-and-horse combinations to the U.S. Olympic Show Jumping Team, plus one traveling reserve combination for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Show Jumping competition at the...

Ralph Jones was restless. An avid eventer, he'd long bemoaned the lack of events near his Hunterdon County, New Jersey home when one evening it hit him: “Why not bring back the Essex...

When Laura Graves (USA) and Verdades went supernova in 2014, skyrocketing from relative obscurity to a fourth-place finish at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, it seemed like they...

Hold onto your helmets! The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named the four athlete-and-horse combinations that will represent the U.S. Olympic Dressage Team in Rio de Janiero, Brazil come August....

Practice makes perfect for Four-in-Hand Pony National Driving Champion Lisa Stroud. Now if she could just remember the test... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNh8O3qUQpg Mortifying moments? We've all had a few. Send yours to carley@horsenetwork...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_0CvmTJFg With the July 18 deadline just weeks away, the race for Olympic team selection has rounded the final corner. Who will make the cut and be named a 2016...

She’s a Stanford student during the week and moonlights as a show jumper on the weekend. Jennifer Gates, daughter of tech-magnate-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, may be a billionaire by blood but...

James H. Fairclough II takes us back to the year 1958 with this postcard to his grandfather, Dr. Robert Rost, from famed American show jumper Frank Chapot. Rost and Chapot were business partners and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_55x5lFg_B8 Famous riders telling mortifying stories. WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?! This week, Canadian Olympian Yann Candele takes us back to that time his groom took a joy ride on his...

“Weird” isn’t a word that often comes up when an athlete describes her Olympic journey.  “Thrilling” maybe, or “emotional”—“exasperating” even—and for Lauren Billys, all those words might apply. But “weird”...

Technically, this is a press release. But it comes in Q&A form so that makes it alright to publish. Or not. Either way, that's the way this Friday is rolling......

Months of preparation, competition, and nail-biting has come to an end! The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) named the four athlete-and-horse combinations that will compete for the U.S. Paralympic Equestrian Team...

A wolverine is a small, ferocious mammal with strength out of proportion to its size. Legend has it, these solitary scavengers would break into abandoned trapper’s cabins on the Hudson’s Bay,...

Famous riders telling mortifying stories. WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?! This week, Australian eventer Ryan Wood takes the hot seat. The 33-year old won both three-star divisions at the Jaguar Land...

What do Cesar Milan, barrel racing, and Hannibal Lector have to do with show jumping? They all played a hand in training Cristallo, the famed mount of Richard Spooner (USA). For...

Eric Lamaze has pegged the 13-year-old Hanoverian mare Fine Lady 5 as his leading hope for the Rio de Janeiro Games this summer. Just don’t expect to see them in...

Four months ago, Daniel Coyle was a professional show jumper in Ireland without any horses or owners. Last week, in Langley, British Columbia, he made his senior Nations Cup team...

Have you ever wondered what the numbers on a polo shirt actually mean? In polo, player positions are only going to be 1 through 4. You’ll never see a player...

If anyone doubted that William Fox-Pitt was ready to return to international competition following his serious fall on cross-country at Lion d'Angers last October, they're holding their tongues now. The 47-year-old...