Remember when we reported on the heated battle between McLain Ward (USA) and Eric Lamaze (CAN) for the title of most WEF Challenge Cup victories? Not once, not twice, BUT...
Meet the new gold standard in ideal starts to a career! Private Practice, a recently appointed hunter, made his derby debut in the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at Deeridge...
Hunter heavyweight Liza Boyd (USA) landed from the final oxer in the Deeridge Derby ring to uproarious applause and a chorus of deepthroated "Woo, woo, woos" from the Kiss 'n Cry....
Last year, the nine-year-old gelding Private Practice was working his way up the jumper ranks at Eduardo Menezes' H5 Stables. Last month, he changed owners and professions. Purchased by Brad...
Easy as one, two, three, (four)... Wellington-based rider Alex Granato (USA) found a winning formula in Round 8 of the WEF Challenge Cup at the Winter Equestrian Festival on Thursday,...
Two five-star grand prix. Two victories for Israel. Two riders named Dan. We're sensing a pattern here? The show jumping featherweight that is the nation of Israel is dominating the...
Annnd they're coming up the long side. Canada's Eric Lamaze leads the charge. The American is hot on his heels. McLain Ward makes a move on the inside. He's gaining ground....
How else do you explain the show jumper's superhuman ability to keep producing results? At a time in life when normal adults fill their days with the spoils of retirement...
At least that's what the World #1 ranked show jumper/beacon of positivity is calling it on Facebook. Olympic silver medalist Kent Farrington (USA) was thrown while competing in the 1.30m...
Technically, it was the feel good story of last week. But someone didn't get to the press release in time. [Points finger at self.] That's okay, though, because the glory...
“The pictures are obscene actually. She will go to a show and win three out of four classes like that.” That was Olympic gold medalist McLain Ward (USA) describing the...
When you're hot, you're hot. And right now Israeli show jumper Daniel Bluman is on tear of ghost pepper proportions. (That is to say, punishingly hot.) The streak started last...
Laura Graves’ new freestyle is almost as amazing as her original one. And she wasn't even trying yet. The 30-year-old and her Rio Olympics partner, Verdades, debuted a new canter...
Who will win the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Thermal? We called in equestrian sport scientist, Dr. Tim Worden, to pick his top three contenders. Dr. Worden has a PhD in...
Few things are more thrilling in sport that a rivalry between athletes. Even a fabricated one. Like the one we're concocting between Olympians Eric Lamaze (CAN) and McLain Ward (USA)...
Up until 2012, Canadian Olympian Jill Henselwood had "an absence of bad luck” in her career. Named to the national show jumping team in 1991 (less than two years after making her Grand Prix...
From hosting a Longines FEI World Cup Jumping Qualifier, to crashing North America's preeminent three-day event, and going (going) back (back) to Cali (Cali), the Split Rock Jumping Tour is...
Just 24 hours ago, Ireland's Daniel Coyle was convinced that the FEI World Cup Final in Paris was beyond his reach. After today's performance in Florida, his ticket is nearly...
"My guys around me tell me I’m getting too old." That was Ben Maher (GBR) in the press conference after the $35,000 Sovaro Palm Beach Masters Qualifier at the CP...
It's been said: “If you don’t win the first class, you can’t win them all.” If you're McLain Ward, it's not just said. It's also been done. (See: 2017 Longines...
