Dana Hart Callanan is a successful hunter, jumper and equitation coach, an ‘R’ judge, and a sales broker. Here she answers common questions about A level sport. A: As a...
Do you think horse prices should be published/public knowledge? It's no secret that equestrian sport, like many elite sports, has a lot of money involved. One thing that we have...
“Well, at least the robots won’t train horses,” I joked to a fellow English teacher as we chatted about the rise of Artificial Intelligence-generated college essays and programs like Moonbeam...
Sexual misconduct and abuse have long been an issue in equestrian sport, and is often ignored, minimized, or wrongly blamed on the victim. The equestrian community is no longer sitting...
It's International Women's Day! To celebrate, Hannah Selleck, Georgina Bloomberg, Laura Kraut, Mavis Spencer and Karen Polle are inviting you to hang out. Virtually. And listen as they share their...
On Tuesday, February 9, 2021, the U.S. Center for SafeSport placed 2012 World Cup Final champion and Olympian Rich Fellers and his wife Shelley Fellers on Temporary Suspension due to allegations of...
If there's one universal truth to 2020, it's that no individual will escape this year unscathed. Between the pandemic and the political unrest, social distancing and social justice, the great...
If there was ever a year for #GivingTuesday, it’s 2020. Giving Tuesday is a day meant to give back to the community around you. The day can take many different...
My friend Jera just got an Alaskan Malamute puppy named Winston Churchill. Sometimes I go with them on their evening walks. As owner and dog trot across the crosswalk toward...
A long rider, according to the Long Rider’s Guild, is someone who has ridden more than 1,000 continuous miles on a single equestrian journey. Bernice Ende has ridden over 30,000 miles...
I love Pride Month. Ever since my very first Pride event many years ago (in NYC, because go big or go home, right?) I have lived to witness the special...
It isn’t overt. They don’t hear slurs and they aren’t excluded from barns or shows. But Abriana Johnson and Caitlin Gooch both say they have felt the sting of racism...
I recently reposted an article written by a well known American Olympic equestrian on the subject of the lack of diversity in the English riding world. I posted it to...
In light of the Black Lives Matter police brutality protests sweeping every state in the nation, institutions in the horse world from publications to membership organizations are talking about how...
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the death of George Floyd and subsequent police brutality protests, what we see on the news beats us down in more ways than one. This...
The day the author Harper Lee died my grandmother and I talked about race. We were on the phone, she in her house in Colorado, me in my apartment in...
The driver of a truck and horse trailer who plowed through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Tulsa, Okla. on Sunday night is under investigation by the Oklahoma...
Every horse owner I know is experiencing some level of anxiety around how COVID-19 is or might affect them as an equestrian. This is totally normal, and if you’re having...
COVID-19 restrictions have led organizers to cancel equestrian competitions and other events nationwide—but at what cost? We caught up with Derek Braun, founder and president of the Split Rock Jumping...
