There was something about watching Dutch rider Sanne Thijssen and her charismatic stallion Con Quidam RB in action that brought to mind National Velvet, Black Beauty, or some other beloved childhood classic. ...
It was Geneva 2023 all over again. German wunderkind Richie Vogel and super-strided stallion United Touch S captured the second Major of their career with the Rolex Grand Prix at...
From one-hit wonders to dark horse victories, a singular triumph always runs the risk of being called a fluke. But to win the same, inaugural event two years in a...
As a longtime fan of show jumping, there are few parts of the sport more rewarding than getting to watch your favorite stallions (and sometimes mares) competing against offspring they...
A single rail down became the drop score for Team USA in Round 2 of the Saturday Night Lights CSIO4* Nations Cup during Week 8 of the Winter Equestrian Festival....
Most people can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001 when news broke of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center...
This was the week my editor rolled into town. She immediately had me crying alone in the bathroom of a fancy Palm Beach five-star hotel. One can barely help it...
The Netherlands’ Willem Greve has been campaigning his longtime partner, the KWPN stallion Grandorado TN N.O.P., since he was jumping the international 5-year-old Young Horse classes back in 2016. This...
The floodlights at Wellington International cast their familiar glow over the International Ring Saturday night, illuminating a scene that has played out many times before: McLain Ward standing atop the...
Note to readers: Week 6 of WEF is hunter week and my editor said I should mention something about WEF in my What the WEF?! column. So consider that box...
Hallowed Be Thy Name, Mimi Gochman. Breaking The Final Frontier of show jumping glory, the 22-year-old American rode to her first five-star and first World Cup victory in the 1.60m CSI5*-W...
On Tuesday, February 10, McLain Ward’s partner of just under a year, Imperial HBF, was humanely euthanized following a severe episode of colic. According to Ward’s Instagram post, the 13-year-old...
At age 68, team gold and individual Olympic champion Nick Skelton doesn’t ride anymore, having officially hung up his saddle alongside his famous stallion, Big Star, one year after their...
Between the white tights, majestic animals with braided up-dos, and non-threatening air of camaraderie on the course walk, the sport of show jumping is about as gangster as pairs ice...
Lee McKeever is the Ernie to McLain Ward's Bert. The Oscar to his Felix. The Snoop Dog to his Martha Stewart. And, like all those great odd-couple partnerships, it just...
Laura Kraut rang-in her 60th birthday last November with a truly outsized accomplishment: a top 10 place in the Longines Rankings and her best Grand Prix season to date. Earning three,...
At age 16, Daniel Coyle’s longtime mount, Farrel, doesn’t always come out for the Grand Prix. But when he does, he almost always comes to play. Coyle and Farrel did...
If 2025 had a theme for Shane Sweetnam, he'd tell you it was his "runner up" year. “We’ve been second a lot, which was my year last year," laughed the...
Popular culture spends a lot of time on the concept of make-it-or-break-it shots, and the necessity of not wasting them. From the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s titular character in Hamilton—“I am...
