And now we’ve come to it: the end of the first season of Faultless: The Riders, their Horses, and the Pursuit of Excellence. We’ve skittered from the flamboyant foulness of...
“Look at the aggression!” Mark Bluman is flying at full speed, without a pause, without a thought, towards the fearsome permanent double liverpools that mark the penultimate obstacle in the...
Spruce Meadows is a world unto itself. A vast equestrian campus set on over 500 acres, filled with pomp and circumstance—marching bands, paratroopers, Mounties, triumphant prize givings, crowd-filled stands, and...
Sometimes show jumping gives you lemons, and sometimes it gives you an inclement downpour in the middle of the Spruce Meadows International Ring. Rain or shine, World No. 2 Richard...
For those of us intimately involved in show jumping, the sport is a complete and total obsession. It is rare that we think about anything else, even rarer that we...
Colombia's Mark Bluman just had the best weekend of his career at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Alt. How good was it? First-five-star-Grand-Prix-win good. $145,510-USD-in-weekly-earnings good. Win-an-international-class-every-day-including-both-GPs-on-three-different-horses good. Here's the breakdown:...
Richard Vogel and Cloudio entered the ring for the first time that day. It was the second round of the BMO Nations Cup at Spruce Meadows and the German Team...
One decade. That's how long Daniel Coyle has been chasing a Grand Prix win at Spruce Meadows. But it only took eight hundredths of a second to claim it. On...
The final day of the CSI5* Spruce Meadows Pan American was looking to be an Irish clean sweep. With the top four finishers in the day’s first 5* class, the...
Disbelief. That was what Vaclav Stanek was feeling in the moments following his repeat win of the week's feature Grand Prix of the Spruce Meadows' CSI5* National Tournament on Saturday....
There’s a certain level of guts required by Spruce Meadows’ sprawling grass fields and notoriously stout fences. For humans as well as horses, it's a facility that doesn’t exactly cater...
There’s an old, well-known saying among seasoned trial lawyers: “Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.” For 15-time FEI World Cup Finalist Richard Spooner, riding, at its...
Welcome to fall! A season where, with just a few clicks on your phone, you can bet on something as trivial as the outcome of a football coin toss, or...
When Martin Fuchs won the CPKC International at Spruce Meadows in 2023, he jumped the final fence with a celebratory fist in the air, knowing he’d clinched the victory. It...
From the first week of June through the first week of July, the lush, green expanse of Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Alberta, is a favorite among top-caliber riders across North...
Matthew Sampson is no stranger to the victory gallop—especially at Spruce Meadows. This season, the British rider has already secured two CSI5* victories in the Summer Series, both of them...
