Just four weeks into the new year, Richard Vogel and Cydello have already matched their Grand Prix win average from the two years prior and are well on their way...
Another week of cold. We've all been reduced to one thought, if you can call it that: “It’s cold.” Our conversations, if you can call it that, consist of “I’m...
In an ideal jump off, the kind written for movie scripts, the excitement builds as each pair in the ring is faster than the last and the winner executes a...
Charlotte Fry defended her title in Amsterdam and is two for two this World Cup season. The British Olympic medalist won the FEI Dressage World Cup at Jumping Amsterdam last...
A new year is bringing a new team lineup for the second annual Longines League of Nations™ series. With the first event kicking off once again in Abu Dhabi, the...
Somewhere in the reclaimed swampland of the Everglades, that glorious river of grass (although it’s actually sedge, not grass, and it’s technically a marsh, not a swamp), a columnist is...
Like other wonderful things in this world—hot sauce, hand cream, double-chocolate cake—a little bit of Toulayna goes a long way. The famously sharp, speedy, and high-strung mare is coming into...
Planning a top horse’s annual show schedule is no fly-by-night operation. Riders and their teams invest hours making a plan, thoughtfully working backward from events where they hope their horses...
The 16-year-old Holsteiner gelding Monaco N.O.P. (Cassini II - Ulla II x Contender, Stamm 429, breeder: Ralf Lütje) delivered an incredible victory in December for his rider, Harrie Smolders, in...
The International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) announced it has opened an investigation into American eventer Andrew McConnon related to allegations of horse abuse involving several horses over an extended...
Winter carnival season is upon us! That is the Winter Equestrian Festival, a 12-week staycation for humans and equines in Wellington, Florida, just outside of West Palm Beach, northwest of...
Germany’s Felicitas Hendricks and the 14-year-old Drombusch OLD (Destano x Dimaggio) saved the best for last the FEI World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in...
North Carolina-based Olympic eventer Doug Payne is nothing if not versatile. Currently sitting in the top 250 in the FEI Eventing World Athlete Rankings, over the last 30 years, Payne...
There’s a well-known saying, now a charming lyric in a newly released country song, that claims that “Good horses come home.” At Paris Olympian Ashlee Bond’s farm, they also entertain...
For many riders, it can take years to put the pieces of a partnership together with a new mount. For Richard Vogel, it took five weeks. On Sunday, the German...
The first World Cup™ win of his 15-year-old stallion Vestmalle des Cotis, by the way. It's always a good day to be a Belgian, but especially on Monday night in...
The fifth leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Western European League showcased the best in the west and home-town favorites in London. Paris 2024 Olympic team bronze medalist Becky...
Retirement can be hard, especially on the most successful among us. For some, getting used a new routine can be challenging. Others struggle to find purpose outside of an all-encompassing...
A crisis of confidence is not something one usually associates with Irish rider Conor Swail. After all, he's the man who can lose his bridle and still finish fourth in a speed...
“Watching the jump-off, I’ve never been so nervous in my life,” said flying Dutchman Harrie Smolders. All too well, Smolders knows the feeling of a win just slipping away. First...
