Tag Archives: Spruce Meadows

Last year, Ben Maher was at home, nursing a case of FOMO, as he watched the Nations Cup unfold at the Spruce Meadows Masters Tournament when a horse caught his...

Watching Lillie Keenan’s poised execution in the tack, you’d be forgiven for not tagging her as a rider who struggles with confidence. It's hard to remember a time when the...

Spruce Meadows is a right of passage for any serious young rider. Just ask Mimi Gochman (USA). “I’ve been watching the Spruce Meadows Nations’ Cup in the fall for a...

Next week, John Perez's daughter is graduating from high school. But it was the Colombian rider who was top of the class on Sunday at Spruce Meadows. Nineteen combinations contested...

It may have only been bottled water, but Paul O’Shea (IRL) and Matthew Sampson (GBR) kicked off their press conference for the 1.60m Friends of the Meadows Grand Prix with...

Talk about getting a jump on the weekend. It was all red ribbons and victory gallops for Egypt’s Nayel Nassar & Coronado in the CSI 5* Friends of the Meadows...

We're not crying. You're crying. The Spruce Meadows Masters tournament is not to be in 2020. Originally slated for September 9–13, Spruce Meadows announced that the annual 5* event, which...

“That was pretty much the most stressful thing I’ve ever had to watch,” confessed Zazou Hoffman. Second to go in a 17-horse jump off for the 1.50m AON Cup at Calgary's...

“I had this thing when I was little kid that I would go to every single show and my goal was to win every single class. “So, I joke around...

It’s the 22-year-old Irish rider’s fourth CSI5* victory in ten days, in case you weren’t keeping track. Aboard the ever consistent Cita, an 11-year-old Holstein mare, Daniel Coyle topped a field of 54 to...

Over the history of the ‘National’ Derby at Spruce Meadows there have been two great horse/rider combinations that have successfully scored a true hat trick in winning three times in...

And then the rains came... As predicted, the clouds closed in for a rainy afternoon Saturday of the RBC Grand Prix at the Spruce Meadows ‘National’ tournament in Calgary, AB....

The $3 Million CP International Grand Prix at the Spruce Meadows’ Masters Tournament in Calgary on Sunday was hard. Really hard. Despite a star-studded line-up that featured no fewer than...

This morning in a luxury hotel somewhere in Calgary, Alberta, a CP International exec rolled out of his California King, tossed aside a thousand thread count sheet, and thought to...

Chris Surbey (CAN) crossed an item off his bucket list last night, a win at the Spruce Meadows' Masters Tournament in the ATCO Six Bar. But he was all apologies after...

Come Sunday, 40 of the world's top horse and rider combinations will take to the International Ring at Spruce Meadows in Calgary to contest the CP International. At $2 Million...

A wolverine is a small, ferocious mammal with strength out of proportion to its size. Legend has it, these solitary scavengers would break into abandoned trapper’s cabins on the Hudson’s Bay,...

What do Cesar Milan, barrel racing, and Hannibal Lector have to do with show jumping? They all played a hand in training Cristallo, the famed mount of Richard Spooner (USA). For...

Spruce Meadows is the number one show in North America and for good reason. It's beautiful, it's immaculately kept, and it's where the best of the best go to compete. Even...