From Irish banks and towering stone walls to that legendary, 10-foot drop down the bank, it takes a special kind of horse to win the Al Shira’aa Derby at Hickstead....
On a day Americans needed good news, Karl Cook delivered. The last time a U.S. athlete won the CSIO5* 1.60m Grand Prix of Rotterdam was 10 years ago. Cook broke...
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,...
The Dutch make a fashion statement every time they step in the ring to represent their nation, but in Rotterdam it was a decree. Donning their orange coats, the Dutch...
Every true fan of show jumping has a combination that they secretly (or not so secretly) love to love. Maybe it’s a clear bond of admiration and trust, like we...
Less than a handful of horses have jumped to two 5* Grand Prix wins in 2025 to date. On Saturday Hello Chadora Lady joined that elite roster in St. Tropez,...
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....
Less than two seconds—about the time it takes to turn on a light switch—was all that separated GCL Ramatuelle, St. Tropez winners Valkenswaard United from last year’s victors, the Cannes...
A decade ago, the horse who would become an Olympic silver and Pan American team gold and individual bronze medalist under American rider McLain Ward was just a naive 6-year-old,...
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...
Oh, La Baule, I love you so much. Jumping International de La Baule in La Baule, France is a perfect horse show. There is one ring, one beautiful grass ring....
Harry Smolders’ relationship with Monaco is like something out of a movie. And in a city renowned for film, they put on a show. Up until six months ago, the...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one can be brilliant at riding a horse or brilliant at love-making, but not both. “And I don’t ride,” I often add suggestively...
“I think we know the formula… we just need one of the Wachmans in our team," Duarte Seabra of the St. Tropez Pirates told GCTV on Thursday. The Pirates snatched...
When Ariel Grange got a call from her mother, Sue, telling her Daniel Coyle was joining their Lothlorien Farms team in 2016, she wasn’t happy. “My mom called me and...
They Trapp family made music together, the "Flying" Wallendas owned the circus high wire. And the Coyle family of Derry, in Northern Ireland? They’re quickly proving that the family that posts...
Kara Chad had more than just a double victory to celebrate Thursday at Thunderbird Show Park. While she was dominating both CSIO4* ranking classes in British Columbia, her fiancé, Matt...
Fairy godmothers don’t always wear pointy hats and arrive by pumpkin coach. Sometimes, they keep their wands under wraps. At least, that’s the case for British rider Charlie Jones’ unofficial...
“McLain.” The old man was looking me dead in the eye. We were both perched on the edge of wide stone steps that formed an oval amphitheater with a wide...
