The cardinal is often seen as a symbol of hope in times of grief. Across various cultures around the world, the flash of the songbird’s red feathers against the white...
In show jumping, jumping clear, consistently, at any height is a rarity. But only a small handful of horses have that rare combination of physical and mental ability required to...
In the sport of show jumping, there were pretty much two names that dominated the conversation at the highest level last season. In the first corner, the reigning World No....
Equestrian is the only Olympic sport where men and women compete on equal footing. But you'd never know it from the show jumping world rankings. Only one female rider, Meredith...
Multiple national titles, an Olympic debut, and two European Championship podium finishes. Four, 1.60m 5* Grand Prix wins and more than €5.6 million in career prize money—all by the tender age...
Explosion W was never a North American horse. But his career at the top, from its unofficial launch in Wellington, Florida in 2018, to its close last week at the...
Back in July, four Belgian boys (boys, simply for the alliteration, had they hailed from Malaysia or Madagascar they would have been men) took team gold at the Longines FEI...
The 2025 season was coming down to the wire for Max Kühner. The Austrian Olympian who took 7th individually in the 2024 Paris Games has a reputation for consistency at the...
It’s been a particularly electrifying year for horse sport in 2025, and this week, as they do every year, US Equestrian is allowing us to weigh-in on our year-end favorites. ...
“Action is redemption,” wrote beloved American poet Emily Dickinson and for American Olympian Kent Farrington at CHI Geneva on Sunday, that was precisely the plan. The world no. 1 made...
“I told myself that I was just going to try to go and not touch the reins and see what happens,” said Callie Schott of her strategy aboard Garant in...
“The horse jumped to win tonight, the rider rode to lose.” The spotlight is on Kent Farrington, world number one, making his blue eyes glow in the darkened arena. “That...
British rider Donald Whitaker is nothing if not effusive about his partner of three years, the 12-year-old OS mare Millfield Colette. In the past, he’s said that she’s “one in...
Every horse-crazy kid grows up with a picture of their future “dream horse,” locked away in the secrets of their heart. For Belgian dressage rider Justin Verboomen that horse is...
An Olympic gold and two-time silver medalist, a Pan American and World Championships team gold medalist, Laura Kraut, at 60, is currently having the best show jumping season of her career....
Willem Greve’s (NED) 10-year-old mare Pretty Woman Van’t Paradijs N.O.P. is not just a looker, she’s now also a two-time winner of FEI World Cup qualifying action along the Western...
It was that plain-speaking, TV clinical psychologist Dr. Phil that popularized the phrase, “The best way to predict future behavior is past behavior.” And like most Dr. Phil-derived wisdoms (“cash...
Few horses in recent memory have been as well-known or beloved as the British dressage champion, Valegro. This week, the world said goodbye to “Blueberry,” who was humanely euthanized as...
World no. 1 eventer Harry Meade doesn't like a challenge. He lives for one. And that's saying something considering what he's already overcome. In 2013, the Brit broke and dislocated...
If there was a resounding theme of the 2025 European Championships this summer, it was best summed up by commentator and former Irish Olympic show jumper, Jessica Kürten. “This has...
