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The bad news: there will be no Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of Canada at Thunderbird Show Park this year. The good news: no international riders will be subjected to...

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...

Andrew Kocher will not be competing this decade. The American show jumper was issued a 10 year ban and disqualified from eight events by the FEI Tribunal for use 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...

Devon Horse Show and Country Fair (DHSCF) will not run in 2021, show organizers announced today. But this time it's not the pandemic shouldering the blame. It's bureaucracy. Originally scheduled for...

One week, two personal bests, and years of trial and error—Yvonne Losos De Muñiz has much to celebrate at the moment. The Dominican Olympian and Aquamarijn are riding out of...

History has graced humankind with many famous Erkels. There's Ferenc Erkel, the father of Hungarian grand opera. And Dutch former medical aid worker Arjan Erkel, who headed a relief mission...

HITS Shows has hosted 22 individual Million Dollar Grand Prix classes, at three different show grounds, in three different states across the USA since 2010. Germany's Andre Thieme has won...

In the 25 years that I’ve been working as a course builder, the job has changed immensely. Today’s courses are a lot more technical. A horse jump is still a...

A horse died in competition on Sunday, March 28 at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Lord Pizarro, an 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding ridden by Ansgar Holtgers Jr. (USA), fell while attempting a...