Tag Archives: Spruce Meadows

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...

When 21 of 33 starters fail to make the time allowed in a 5* 1.60m class and five more don't even complete the course, you have to ask: was the...

It was a case of another day and another big win for power duo Richard Vogel and United Touch S of Germany. But just as soon as Vogel had completed...

Even if you’re not a gambler, per se, Conor Swail is as good a bet as any you could make in a jump-off round. In the last decade, the rider...

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...

Last summer at Spruce Meadows, Tiffany Foster predicted great things for Battlecry. “I think that this is a horse who can win big things,” said the Canadian Olympian after their first...

Two years ago, Václav Staněk was working as a groom at the Spruce Meadows Summer Series. On Sunday, the 29-year-old became the first Czech rider in history to win a...

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...