For nearly a decade, Laura Kraut's great grey gelding Cedric and Lauren Hough's quirky bay Quick Study travelled the world contesting the most elite competitions for Team USA. Cedric was...
The first time Margie Goldstein-Engle rode on a US Nations Cup team was in Toronto in 1989 on a horse named Saluut II. And she was the anchor. Listen to...
Great successes typically bring out two types of people: those who like to bask in the limelight, and those who like to share it. Ireland's Paul O’Shea belongs to the...
Ashlee Bond's upcoming mount goes by the name Donatello. But Zoolander might have been a more accurate starter. The really, really ridiculously good looking Westphalian gelding had all the trappings...
Some people hope for chocolates on Valentines Day. Or flowers. Catherine Tyree (USA) gifted herself a $16,500 paycheck. Riding veteran partner Bokai, Tyree topped a 35-horse field in the $50,000 CSIO5* Suncast® Grand...
Nations Cup week of the Palm Beach Masters Series is finally here! The first of three qualifiers for the North America, Central America and Caribbean League, a win on Sunday...
There are hairs sprouting on Andy Kocher’s chinny chin chin and he’s not shaving them off until he wins, so says the World Cup finalist. Tearing a page from the...
Just two hundredths of a second separated first through fourth in the $71,200 NetJets Classic at the CP Palm Beach Masters Winter Classic CSI4*-W on Saturday night. But it was...
“He’s the smartest horse I’ve ever ridden.” Mexico's Salvador Onate had nothing but praise for his partner of a year and half, Big Red. The 14-year-old Westphalian gelding, who we...
Every year since 2014, Valinksy S has trotted into the international ring at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL with a different rider in the tack. Some years, there...
Last week, Laura Graves introduced new music in her winning Freestyle. The musical overture features dramatic orchestral swells and rhythmic percussion sequences. It does not include a clip of DJ Khaled's...
Brazil’s Celso Ariani and Ukulman de la Nutria captured the first WEF Challenge Cup of the 2019 Winter Equestrian Festival season in Wellington, FL on Wednesday. And it's left us...
Show jumping legend Ted Edgar has been heralded as a larger-than-life character, an innovator ahead of his time and a gifted horseman. He's also a straight-up bad a**. A leading jockey in...
Mark this date. December 13 will go down in history as the day the Super Cup was born. The first ever Global Champions (GC) Playoffs kicked off today in Prague,...
Twenty eighteen was a grey year for McLain Ward. In a literal sense. A bevy of overcast-hued horses have kept the double Olympic gold medalist seeing blue (ribbons). And his...
Ursula XII, a horse whose name is reminiscent of 90s sitcom Friends and/or Disney's The Little Mermaid, depending on the year you were born, will grace the show ring no more....
The top ten(ish) came. They saw. But only one would conquer. The annual Rolex International Jumper Riders Club (IJRC) Top 10 Final saw (most of) the world's best go head...
Rising star Mattias Tromp (USA) jumped a whopping 260 spots up the Longines World Rankings in 2018—by doing his homework. Ranked 408 in January, the 24-year-old rider rode into the...
Which one is the horse? Who's the rider? Show jumping is confusing, let’s watch football. World #20 ranked rider Shane Sweetnam (IRL) and horse-with-a-human-sounding-name Palina De L’Escaut captured their first FEI...
International Week has arrived at the Royal Horse Show! Twenty-four elite riders from eight countries will compete at the storied indoor show in Toronto, Ontario. Course designer Alan Wade (IRL),...
