Eightieth. Eliminated. Twenty-six. Ninth. Seventeenth. Thirteenth. Sixteenth. Eleventh. If you looked at Cartania’s FEI finishes, a casual glance wouldn’t have made you pick her as a five-star winner. Until a...
If the last few years have not yet proven, the 2025 edition certainly has. Horses that succeed at Maryland have the blood and grit to handle the terrain and intense...
“It’s 100% focus when you’re in there,” Monica Spencer gushed of her ride on the second day of the MARS Maryland 5*. “At that [final] salute, I thought, yeah, I...
Half the 22-horse field strutted before the ground jury on Thursday at the 2025 MARS Maryland 5* to start off the dressage and it's Boyd Martin in the lead after...
Coming in last to the show jumping is familiar territory for British eventer Oliver Townend. His name always hovers at every five star as a favorite and often at some...
It was a day of mixed emotions at the MARS Maryland 5*. Of the original 23 entries, 21 attempted Ian Stark’s cross country course. Of those 21, four parted ways,...
It’s a full circle moment for Tamra Smith and the 18-year-old Mai Baum in Maryland. “He started his four star long career here at Fair Hill,” Smith reminisced. “So, to...
The road to a five star is rarely a smooth one, but for USA’s Cosby Green (23) and now 14-year-old Highly Suspicious the journey was tumultuous. “I probably had...
When Oliver Townend (GBR) rode into the Fair Hill arena on Sunday for the final phase of the MARS Maryland 5 Star the odds were overwhelmingly in his favor. With...
