Lots of athletes have pre-competition rituals to settle jittery nerves. For Russia's Inessa Merkulova's 12-year-old Trakehner Mister X, that ritual involves his owner reading novels to him before their Grand...
At just 21, Sönke Rothenberger (GER) is the greenest rider on the German Olympic team. His horse Cosmo, just nine, is the youngest competing in dressage. Together, they beat a...
If there’s a time when an athlete aspires to peak, it’s at the Olympics Games. Dressage rider Steffen Peters (USA) did exactly that. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Peters delivered...
Palestine is making Olympic history in Rio by debuting their first equestrian competitor. But there’s a controversial catch—he’s a German-born businessman who just obtained a Palestinian passport in 2011. Dressage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brXU2nQV_lE The British Dressage Team is currently in the process of defending its Olympic gold medal, and yet, still made time to make quite the fashion statement. Each of the...
At the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, a young attorney turned military officer and World War I veteran named Hiram Tuttle added another feather to his cap by winning the individual...
William Fox-Pitt is a five-time Olympian and an amazing athlete. He's also batsh*t insane. Let’s examine the evidence... First, there was the whole coma-to-Rio in ten months thing. Most people...
Alex Hua Tian is no stranger to the big stage. At the age of 18, he became the youngest rider in Olympic Eventing history when he competed in the 2008...
Eventer Camilla Kruger had a goal: represent her native Zimbabwe in the Olympics. The African nation of 15 million has never had an equestrian athlete qualify for the Olympic Games,...
There must be something buried in the human psyche that craves an object of blind devotion. Why else would there be fans of anything? Think about it. Somewhere there's a...
There is a lot of recent discussion about the hunter divisions and the many problems surrounding the sport. This is a topic that has been debated since the 1970's when...
I went on vacation last week, and as a guilty pleasure, picked up one of my moms romance novels. It was titled “Love The One You’re With” by Emily Giffin,...
Between his towering 6'4" frame and penchant for bold fashion choices, Danny Ingratta is hard to miss at the show ring. But it's his outgoing personality that makes the Canadian...
As an equine fitness specialist my job is always to ask how we can improve the horse’s body. One of the simplest ways we can do this in daily riding...
This May at Rolex, U.K.-based American eventer Liz Halliday-Sharp and her 12-year-old Irish Sporthorse, HHS Cooley, completed their first CCI****, finishing in 40th place with a clear cross-country round. The...
Imagine you're a budding professional and you land a new sponsor. But not just any new sponsor. A top tier sponsor. A change-your-life-and-put-your-wildest-dreams-within-reach kind of sponsor. If you're like most...
Public disputes. Allegations of selector bias and unsoundness issues. Last minute changes to the team lineup. The selection process for the Canadian Olympic eventing team has had more plot twists...
When news broke last week that Bromont will no longer stage the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, it sparked strong speculation that the games would return to the Kentucky Horse...
The first time I made the team it was by default. It was 2011. Andy and Carlene Ziegler (owners of Artisan Farms) had just bought me a horse, Southwind VDL,...
It's been an eventful two days for Richard and Kaylen Spooner, who were forced to evacuate their farm and horses on the evening of July 24th following the spread of...
