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Tackling long put off home improvement projects has been a popular pandemic pastime. Jan Tops is no exception. The brain force behind the Global Champions Tour/League spent a bit of...

Boyd Martin (USA) won the 2020 Buckeye Nutrition USEF CCI4*-L National Championship this weekend with Christine Turner’s Tsetserleg. In doing so, Martin also earned the unofficial title of coast-to-coast champion,...

These are weird times that seem to give rise to new reasons to feel stressed, sad and/or outraged on an hourly basis. It's...a lot. But there's one fellow who's having...

Michael Matz is best known these days as the Kentucky Derby winning trainer of famed racehorse Barbaro. But before he was making headlines at the track, he was making them...

In the beginning... Fifty-eight pairs contested Saturday’s $250,000 STX Vans Grand Prix at Desert International Horse Park in CA. Nine found a clear path around the Manuel Esparza (MEX)-designed track...

It happened between fences 10 and 11. The rare feeling of confusion as to why my arms had just swung past me of their own accord. It was early in...

The first of just two CCI4*-L of 2020 saw ten riders to completion, with U.S. Olympian Boyd Martin leading from the start to the very end, to finish on a...

The first CCI4*-L of 2020 is taking place at Galway Downs International this weekend, and although the field is small (just 11 are in the hunt following cross-country) it’s mighty....

If there's one theme from 2020 that seems determined to spill over into the new year, it's that nothing is as it was. And it could be some time before...

The prize list for the much anticipated 2021 winter season at the World Equestrian Center – Ocala is out. With the grand opening set for January, the new show grounds...

If you have the space for it, a cross country schooling course at home can be a great asset to your training program. After deciding that you have enough room,...

“It’s the stuff dreams are made of…”—Laura Collett, winner of Les 5 Étoiles de Pau, 2020 It’s hard not to want to add an *asterisk to everything 2020 these days,...

Thirty years go Todd Minikus (USA) won the Grand Prix that put him "on the map." Aboard the aptly named Thrilling, he rode away the victor in the 1990 Washington...

If you thought for a minute that the year’s only CCI5*-L might be a bit “softer” than average, what with COVID, travel restrictions, the lack of prep events (for all...

Each April, as the grass barely begins to emerge, and we wonder if it will ever (truly) be warm again, some of the very best horses and riders in the...

Rapper DJ Khalid and hit makers Ludacris, Rick Ross, T-Pain and Snoop Dogg might have made the phrase famous with their club banger "All I Do Is Win." But Canada's...

If you've been following the Thunderbird Harvest Welcome this week and didn't know who Katie Laurie was before, you certainly do now. On Thursday, the Australian rider captured the $37,000...

From third on the leaderboard to fifth then straight to first—the FEI U25 Division's youngest competitor at Thunderbird Show Park rode away with the biggest purse and the Series Championship...

It was a time fault that likely haunted Emily Ward's dreams last night. Leading the U25 Division after Thursday's Round 1, the $5,000 Canoe Financial U25 1.35m, Ward (GBR) and...

There's $20,000 on the line this week in the international U25 Division at Thunderbird Show Park. Plus, a $1,000 bonus to the Division Champion. That unprecedented prize money is making...