Category Archives: Show Jumping

For Fuchs Sake

It was at La Baule, France, in the Riders Restaurant, where I threw my hat down on the table and proclaimed it an embarrassment. “I need a Team Fuchs hat!”...

The Trial of the Treble

I’m sitting on my bed at home in Wellington, Florida. I have been tasked by my editor to indulge in what I’m terming “remote reportage,” the job of covering the...

Scott Brash Has the Hot Hand

No doubt the Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey said it best in their smash 1998 hit, which claims: “It's all just a little bit of history repeating.”  Whether he was ever...

Je Suis Ermitage Kalone 

If show jumpers were awarded style points, Ermitage Kalone would take them all. His jumping rounds effortlessly combine the style of a show hunter, the precision of an equitation round,...

Czech, One, Two

Disbelief. That was what Vaclav Stanek was feeling in the moments following his repeat win of the week's feature Grand Prix of the Spruce Meadows' CSI5* National Tournament on Saturday....

S&L Quatro Was Made in Spruce Meadows

There’s a certain level of guts required by Spruce Meadows’ sprawling grass fields and notoriously stout fences. For humans as well as horses, it's a facility that doesn’t exactly cater...
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