At the 2012 Olympic Games, U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney became an inadvertent meme for the unimpressed face she made upon receiving a silver medal in vault. On Sunday at MLSJ...
A great 1.60m horse—we're talking the likes of King Edward, Explosion W, and Caracole de la Roque—wins two to three five-star Grands Prix a year. In 2024, Leone Jei, United...
As the Jackie DeShannon song goes, "what the world needs now is love," and we would add, maybe a little peace. What it didn’t need? Another reminder that two-time Olympic...
If there’s one thing to know about Kent Farrington, it’s that he can play the long game. The reigning World No. 1 and U.S. Olympic team silver medalist certainly has...
I’m sitting on my bed at home in Wellington, Florida. I have been tasked by my editor to indulge in what I’m terming “remote reportage,” the job of covering the...
It was a tale of very different American wins on Wednesday, July 2 at CHIO Aachen, with two promising young horses officially making an impression in Germany. First up, three-time...
If fantasy football were played the same way in the sport of show jumping, it would all come down to how much horse power you could draft for your team. ...
They say when it rains, it pours, and this month, it’s certainly pouring U.S. World No. 1s on multiple FEI Rankings Lists. For the first time ever, three U.S. riders...
The number 13 may be unlucky, but it’s been a good omen for newly announced World No. 1 Kent Farrington’s top horse of all time, Gazelle. That’s because the now-19-year-old Belgian mare,...
When you have a jump-off in which Richard Vogel (World no. 8) is the least accomplished, you know you’re watching something good. A treat was exactly what the crowd was...
It seems Kent Farrington made a new year’s resolution: 2025 would be his year. The American Olympian is claiming dominance across his home country, winning major grand prix titles in...
Kent Farrington is everything, everywhere at all once this winter season. The American Olympic medalist has been making the rounds and his presence felt at all three major winter circuits...
Kent Farrington jumped to the top of the North American League standings with his second World Cup win of the season on Saturday. But his contender status for the Final...
Like other wonderful things in this world—hot sauce, hand cream, double-chocolate cake—a little bit of Toulayna goes a long way. The famously sharp, speedy, and high-strung mare is coming into...
No matter how well you prepare, with horses, sometimes it’s your day, and sometimes, it just isn’t. It’s a story that nobody knows better than Kent Farrington and his 2024...
If you’re looking for a poster child for the sport of show jumping, current no. 6 on the Longines Rankings, Kent Farrington, makes a good one. The American rider is...
Meep, meep! They’re two of the quickest riders anywhere on the globe—but who’s got the edge when it comes to the numbers? Fast & Furious may be one of the top-grossing movie...
Same venue. Same players. Same ending. The script for the individual final Grand Prix of the 2023 Major League Show Jumping season read strikingly similar to the 2022 showing. But...
Seven years ago, Kent Farrington and the then 9-year-old KWPN gelding, Creedance, topped an impressive field in the 2016 ‘Big Ben’ Challenge at the Royal Horse Show in Toronto. For...
