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...
You think you know the game. A rider enters the ring. She is riding a horse. Together, they negotiate a series of obstacles—jumps—and come out with a score based on...
A menacing face hangs over the arena—huge eyes hollowed out by shadows. It is Ben Maher, looking as grim as anyone ever has. Flash! Boom! Pow! Bam! A veiny hand...
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...
A regiment of kilt-wearing, bagpipe-playing Scotsmen enter the ring. Dozens-strong, unexpected, they give every neck whiplash as all eyes turn to them, a triumphant parade of pomp. A small troupe...
Just four weeks into the new year, Richard Vogel and Cydello have already matched their Grand Prix win average from the two years prior and are well on their way...
Somewhere in the reclaimed swampland of the Everglades, that glorious river of grass (although it’s actually sedge, not grass, and it’s technically a marsh, not a swamp), a columnist is...
Winter carnival season is upon us! That is the Winter Equestrian Festival, a 12-week staycation for humans and equines in Wellington, Florida, just outside of West Palm Beach, northwest of...
This week in elite sport... Leg two of the Longines FEI League of Nations stops in Ocala, Florida. It's a World Cup double header weekend in dressage with events in...
This week in five star sport... The new Longines League of Nations series kicks off in Abu Dhabi, UAE and the first of four five-star weeks gets underway at Wellington...
Ireland's Paul O’Shea has been perched in the stirrups of Imerald van’t Voorhof for the entirety of the 16-year-old Belgian Warmblood's now eight-year international career. “I’ve been riding him since...
Big changes may be coming to Wellington International… but there are potential snags in the works as well. As the slow trickle of WEF defectors continues to flow north to...
Darragh Kenny has options. Between his Olympic mount VDL Cartello, veterans Chic Chic and Amsterdam 27, and 10-year-old Hamrah van het Exelhof Z, the Irish Olympian isn’t exactly short on...
With the start of winter circuits just around the corner, Rene Dittmer is proving he’s one to watch this year at Wellington International and beyond. The 30-year-old phenom from Stade,...
Wellington resident and entrepreneur Mark Bellissimo is partnering with NEXUS Luxury Collection, founded by Joe Lewis and his Tavistock Group, Tiger Woods, Justin Timberlake, and Ernie Els, to ‘bring sexy back’...
If you’ve been wondering what the ‘CHF’ stands for before prize money offerings in this year’s big Wellington International Grand Prix classes, you’re not alone. Take, for instance, Ben Maher’s...
Every new partnership is entitled to some bumps in the road, even when one of them is the reigning Olympic Champion. But when Great Britain’s Ben Maher and Dallas Vegas Batilly returned...
Another day, another top finish for American rider Lacey Gilbertson and Karlin van’t Vennehof. Only this time, the rest of the field discovered there was no catching them in the...
[Spoiler: it’s the Winter Equestrian Festival] Spanish Olympian Sergio Alvarez Moya beat a field of 40 to capture the $500,000 Rolex Grand Prix CSI 5* on Saturday at the 2017...
World #3 McLain Ward is renown for many things. Enthusiastic displays of excitement in the ring are not one of them. On Saturday night at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Wellington, FL,...
