Category Archives: Eventing

While I wish all my days were spent riding horses through fields of flowers or jumping from horse show to horse show, for better or worse, much of my time...

Pippa Funnell, winner of Badminton, Burghley and multiple championship medals with the British Eventing team, has fears for the future of eventing. The first-ever Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing winner...

Neither Karl Slezak nor Colleen Loach went home with prize money from the Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event CCI4*-L earlier this month. But the two Canadian Olympic hopefuls perhaps achieved...

We are getting dangerously close to fly season. (Related: did anyone else read about the cicada bloom that's happening this year?! No thanks.) I'm a planner. I like to make...

Looks like those ice baths are paying off. With a group of syndicate members cheering them on, Boyd Martin (USA) and Luke 140 jumped a clear show jumping round to...

Liz Halliday-Sharp has been feeling anxious about the Olympic selection process since her top-ten finish at last month’s Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event riding Deniro Z. “I feel like I’ve...

Three-Day Event riders have gathered at the Horse Park of New Jersey this week for the Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event. The final selection trials for the Olympic Games in...

I'm a big believer in "less is more" when it comes to tack and riding equipment. I like to focus on basics and keep my riding and my gear as...

There's a photo on Facebook this morning of newly crowned American national champion Boyd Martin sitting in a water trough filled with ice and looking...blissful? Perhaps you've seen it and...

It would be easy to call Oliver Townend's three-peat at the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event (LRK3DE) a fairytale finish for a fairytale event. But that wouldn’t do justice...

The effects of Saturday’s gruelling cross-country efforts rippled through the CCI5* field Sunday morning at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, with multiple horses being held for re-inspection. Two-time defending...

In our admittedly small (virtual) circle watching the CCI5*-L cross country live-stream Saturday from the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event the word “carnage” was tossed around a fair bit....

The general consensus on the ground is that course designer Derek di Grazia has built one of the most challenging five star Kentucky Three Day Event (K3DE) courses to date....

They say close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and it doesn’t get much closer than this. Tamie Smith (USA) came within a hair's-breadth of knocking Marilyn Little (USA)...

“Every rider will probably say sitting on a horse is their religion. You have something big in life that you’re working through—you get on a horse and go ride. They...

American Marilyn Little dropped the best 5* dressage score seen at the Kentucky Three-Day Event (K3DE) since 2009—a score of 21.7 penalties—to move into first place with her “horse of...

Sixty-three of the world’s best horse and rider combinations presented themselves to the ground jury Wednesday afternoon at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian*. (*And a...

Valerie Pride owns and operates Blue Clover Eventing, born at least in part from the peculiar twist of fate that there is no option for professional women’s lacrosse as a...

As we start to figure out how to watch from home while working from home a plan for the #bestweekendallyear, here are some quick links for how and when to...

“It’s the hope that kills you.” —John Cleese and Ted Lasso, among others. Life’s rituals and routines can be calming, grounding and sometimes the only thing that gets you out...