Ask any rider from Spruce Meadows to Dublin and they’ll tell you: Conor Swail and Count Me In—known as "Crosby" in the barn—were never the combination you’d want following you in a...
Angelica Augustsson Zanotelli may have a crystal ball at home. When the Swedish Grand Prix rider stopped by the GCTV studio to give her pick for the winner of the 11-horse...
Olivier Perreau plays the long game. The French breeder, 39, solves for a "good mind and good heart" with the 12 foals he produces each year. His homebred mare GL...
The final Golden Ticket for the LGCT Super Grand Prix was claimed in Riyadh on Saturday and it's shaping up to be a Dutch vs Deutsch showdown. Jana Wargers of...
Heavy is the head that wears the crown—and also the Global Champions League (GCL) leader’s armband. Already, at the tender age of 27, though, Belgium’s Gilles Thomas has proven he...
It was officially a Thijssen family affair on Sunday during the kick-off event of the 2025/2026 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Western European League season in Oslo, Norway, with no...
If the last few years have not yet proven, the 2025 edition certainly has. Horses that succeed at Maryland have the blood and grit to handle the terrain and intense...
“It’s 100% focus when you’re in there,” Monica Spencer gushed of her ride on the second day of the MARS Maryland 5*. “At that [final] salute, I thought, yeah, I...
Half the 22-horse field strutted before the ground jury on Thursday at the 2025 MARS Maryland 5* to start off the dressage and it's Boyd Martin in the lead after...
It was the legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie who famously coined the phrase, “One coincidence is just a coincidence, two coincidences are a clue, three coincidences are a proof." Of...
There isn't much that's more American than the inaugural US Equestrian Open of Eventing Final CCI4*-L ending with an all-U.S. podium. A bald eagle might as well have swooped down...
Elegance is an attitude. And Harrie Smolders delivers like a postman. I keep being reminded of the former as I watch the Longines Global Champions Tour, streaming live from the...
If you asked Federico Fernández how he was feeling after his win in the CSI5* Otomí Grand Prix, he would say he’d already won long before he even stepped foot...
There’s a first time for everything, and Rene Dittmer (GER) was part of two big firsts at the Highlands Cup. In its inaugural year, sporting a star-studded roster of Olympic...
With only two stops left in the regular season, the GCL standings couldn’t be closer. On Friday, October 10, the Cannes Stars powered by Iron Dames came out swinging in...
And we have a jumpoff! We are in Barcelona at the Longines League of Nations Final. Eight nations plus the host country, Spain, are battling it out for the 2025...
When did I first fall in love? It was never supposed to happen. I was very young and in Chicago on a tourist weekend. Somehow I found myself attracted to...
Notorious B.I.G. captured the idea best in the lyrics of his profound, 1996 smash hit, Mo Money Mo Problems. Biggie would probably agree, though, that the moral of the song is about...
Top-ranked tennis player Iga Świątek—who famously held the World No. 1 ranking for 125 weeks and has won six majors, including the French Open and Wimbledon in 2025—isn’t known for taking...
A great 1.60m horse—we're talking the likes of King Edward, Explosion W, and Caracole de la Roque—wins two to three five-star Grands Prix a year. In 2024, Leone Jei, United...
