Last spring, Leah Lang-Gluscic made headlines alongside her 10-year-old thoroughbred, AP Prime, during the pair's debut at the 2015 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. It was the Cinderella story of the...
Engagement—The act of flexing the hocks, stepping under the body, planting the hooves, and lifting. The forehand gradually becomes lighter as the hindquarters become stronger. Think of dressage training, therefore,...
The days following last weekend's wreck of an event were spent in a bipolar state of emotions. I was bummed with Nixon ("Called to Serve") for getting eliminated, proud of...
The paint is dry, the grass is mowed, the mood in turnt and the entry list is live for the 2016 Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event. Phillip Dutton and Fernhill Fugitive...
I walked off the cross country course yesterday with my head hanging low and my reins swinging on my horse's neck. Without breaking a sweat Nixon strode out strongly, not comprehending...
Missed Connection posts all tend to have one thing in common: they're almost never solved. Unless, that is, you happen to be eventer Kate Samuels. Here's how it started. A little...
So you’ve followed our tips from last month to pressure wash and paint or stain your schooling course, but it’s still looking a little plain. Like plain white walls in...
Good base, bad base, good base, bad base, good base, bad base, good base. It takes time to learn how to ride, and it often requires decent teaching. I learned...
Yesterday was the first show of the season for many of us here in Kentucky, the Paul Frazer Memorial Combined Test at the Kentucky Horse Park. The show has become...
Just in case you needed a reminder how brilliantly athletic the riders and horses competing at eventing's top levels truly are, Buck Davidson and Park Trader offered a dramatic illustration...
Like budding daffodils and the chorus of chickadees, the Red Hills International Horse Trials is one of the sure harbingers of spring. The action gets under way down in Tally-town this...
Why do show hunters, equitation riders and horse show pleasure riders so often lope along in that "dead zone" canter? Part of the answer must be that the slower, more...
A few months ago, dripping in sweat and battered and bruised, I came home and text messaged my best friend Meghan, telling her that I thought it was time to...
True confession time... It took me "forever" to understand that the better way to get a horse light and in at least some degree of self carriage was to learn...
I walked off of the cross country course in tears yesterday. Sweat poured off of my face, and the tears caught into the black mane and glistening neck of my...
In May 2015, Michael Jung (GER) put paid to William Fox-Pitt (GBR)’s 12-month strong hold on top of the FEI World Eventing Rankings. He's held on to that title nearly every...
It was late April, 2013, and eventer Allie Knowles was still trying to adapt to the frozen winters and volatile springs of her New Kentucky Home. Just over a year before...
Jack Le Goff told us (5,974 times by actual count) that in order to have an adjustable canter that "allows" the rider to be able to instantly lengthen, be able...