Channel Archives: Sports

A lot of things can go wrong when your horse slips the bridle mid course. You could fall off, as most often is the case. You could keep jumping, like Belgium show...

German dressage rider Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (GER) is currently ranked #5 in the world with her 14-year-old KWPN stallion Unee BB. In 2015 alone, they won the Grand Prix and the Grand...

And people say dressage riders don’t have a sense of humor… (Watch for the Carl Hester cameo at the end!) [fb-video src='https://www.facebook.com/trtmethod/videos/441043972753891/'] When he’s not busy posing as dressage rider extraordinaire “Brett Kidding,”...

Rafael Pease just wanted to catch some fresh powder on his 21st birthday. But the snowboarder got more than he bargained for when he discovered a stranded horse, trapped in four feet...

A horse believed to be the world’s oldest equine, passed away over the weekend at the ripe old age of 50. FIFTY! Fiddy. 5-0. Half-a-hunny. Orchid, a thoroughbred-arabian cross, was...

The 2015 USEF Four-in-Hand Driving National Championship started out cold and rainy, but was warm and sunny for Sunday’s cones phase in the Rolex Stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park....

Seven years ago, Ian Debeer was one of the most prolific street artists in Pittsburgh. He was no. 2 on the Graffiti Task Force list of "10 Most Wanted Graffiti...

Hundreds of miles of untouched, virgin land, speckled with a myriad of horses, goats, sheep, cattle, yak and little running ground squirrels lie before me. Falcons fly overhead, as scavenging...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJ2-VqwxAE In theory, riding hunters should be an easy proposition. The jumps are natural-looking and mostly inviting, the courses are straight-forward (line diagonal, line diagonal, maybe a single?), and if you’re...

While most of the action going down at the Dublin Horse Show last week was of the exciting-yet-bridled variety (save perhaps Andres Rodriguez’s delightfully unbridled enthusiasm for the puissance), it was French equestrian artist Clémence...

In many ways, the sport of polo is a world unto itself, even from other sports in the equestrian space. Long associated with privilege, glamour, and even princes, polo sometimes feels like the least accessible discipline...

Picture this: you are on an expanse of green grass nine times the size of a football field. Beneath you an athletic thoroughbred stands poised, ready to leap into a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9JsBlsVdw Earlier this week, I had my first polo lesson with Palo Alto Polo Holiday, a traveling Argentinean polo program run by the fantastic Leonardo Rossolini and Emily Hordijk, which is stationed near my hometown...

Watch Team RSV Neuss-Grimmlinghausen (GER) take the win in the first freestyle round of international group competition at the CVIO4* in Verden with a score of 9.003! And look super dope in their...

[caption id="attachment_422" align="alignnone" width="640"] Smokey leads American Pharoah onto the track for a jog on Friday morning.[/caption] “He’s my favorite horse in the barn,” Baffert boasted. “He’s such a cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jATVW_xntI When it comes to leadline classes, there are two kinds of spectators: those that love them, and those that…don’t. The former runs to the rail, camera in hand, waving and shouting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_5JiZWChY Charlotte Dujardin held her first clinic in Canada earlier this month, and PSdressage.com was on the scene in Surrey, BC, reporting live all the minute-to-movement action that was this year's most...

Modern life can be a challenge. We all deal with stress on a daily basis. Years of bad posture in school and work hunched over computers and desks has led...

In May 2015, Michael Jung (GER) put paid to William Fox-Pitt (GBR)’s 12-month strong hold on top of the FEI World Eventing Rankings. He's held on to that title nearly every...

It was late April, 2013, and eventer Allie Knowles was still trying to adapt to the frozen winters and volatile springs of her New Kentucky Home. Just over a year before...