“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...
Galway Downs in Temecula, California ran their first FEI event of 2021 this past weekend (March 26/27). In addition to their CCI2*, 3* and 4*-S, they also ran horse trials...
World #3 Daniel Deusser (GER) came to Florida's Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) to win. He's leaving with the biggest purse of the winter season and a win streak unrivaled since...
Women's History Month just got a little richer. Olympic veteran Margie Engle and McLain Ward’s two-time Olympic mare Sapphire have been elected Show Jumping Hall of Fame Class of 2020....
Irish riders brought home the green this weekend, coast to coast. At the Desert International Horse Park (DIHP) in Thermal, CA., Nicky Galligan (IRL) and Javas Miss Jordan topped a...
Ginger-Blue, aka "Cookie," and Ben Maher (GBR) rode to their first ever international 1.50m victory on Friday. The 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare, owned by Jane Forbes Clark, topped a starting...
The Show Jumping Hall of Fame Class of 2019 is official! Olympic gold and silver medalist Leslie Burr Howard and Olympic judge and longtime FEI Steward General David Distler have...
With the EHV-1 outbreak shutting down competition abroad, USA is the only country running international show jumping circuits at the moment. But you'd never know it from the headlines. Florida's...
The FEI World Cup™ Finals have been canceled for the second year in a row. This time it's ongoing outbreak of the neurological form of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) in...
There was $73,000 up for grabs in Round 9 of WEF Challenge Cup on Thursday at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida. The Irish contingent rode away with $61,320 of it....
The Spruce Meadows Summer Series has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But there's a replacement series in the works. The 5*...
Six-time Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist Phillip Dutton spent the winter in Wellington doing what most competitive riders with high aspirations do—training with the experts. Now he's reaping the reward...
Bertram Allen's "next best horse," Pacino Amiro, made his 5* debut during Week 5 of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL. By Week 7, they rode away with the...
Daniel Deusser's top horse, ‘Tobi’ arrived in Wellington, Florida less than a week ago and immediately jumped to his first 5* win of the season. “If you watch me a...
