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...
American eventer Andrew McConnon has been suspended for 20 months and fined CHF 2,500 by the FEI Tribunal for horse abuse. McConnon is the second international competitor to be suspended...
A couple of decades ago, the World’s No. 1 eventer, Harry Meade, was cutting his teeth in the hunt fields of Great Britain. “I was probably about in my early...
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...
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...
Last spring, an Australian study found that growing a human baby in utero requires significantly more energy than previously thought: Some 50,000 calories over nine months—about the equivalent of 50 pints of Ben...
If you were spinning an epic tale about the sport of eventing, you might start with an on-the-nose name for your protagonist like “Canter” and build your story arc around...
It all came down to cross country for Team USA in the UBS-Cup CCIO4-S* at CHIO Aachen on Saturday, July 5—and what a test it was. Designed by Italy’s Giuseppe Della...
It was a dominant win from start to finish for American Olympian Caroline Pamukcu this weekend at the CCI4*-S at Maryland International. Held at Loch Moy Farm in Adamstown, Maryland,...
Long before she and Lordships Graffalo became the MARS Badminton Horse Trials winners for a second time, Ros Canter was a kid at home in her living room, screening footage...
It was 2023 all over again on Sunday at the Mars Badminton Horse Trials. The 2025 edition concluded with the same podium as two years prior with Ros Canter, Oliver...
Mars Badminton Horse Trials has narrowed to a two-horse race, featuring two of Britain’s best, as they head into show jumping's final phase and they don’t have a rail to...
Yesterday, Great Britain’s Oliver Townend and his veteran mount Ballaghmor Class led through 20-some dressage rounds on the morning of Day 1 at the Mars Badminton Horse Trials. Then, the afternoon came. ...
Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning eventers, they're just like us! Okay, maybe not just like us. But British rider Tom McEwen and his Paris Olympic mount JL Dublin did make very...
They say when it rains, it pours, and this month, it’s certainly pouring U.S. World No. 1s on multiple FEI Rankings Lists. For the first time ever, three U.S. riders...
After Michael Jung’s unbelievable fifth win at Kentucky, shattering dressage scores and leading margins, this week's Adelaide Equestrian Festival, the second CCI5*-L competition of the year, had much to live...
“This is the best group of five-star horses I've had,” said Boyd Martin (USA) at the start of the press conference after the second dressage day of the Defender Kentucky...
American swimmer Michael Phelps is widely considered to be one of the most decorated athletes of all time. In his prime, Phelps won 28 (!) Olympic medals, 23 of them...
