"I was a bit afraid because [team manager] Eric [van der Vleuten] was putting a lot of pressure on me right after Maikel, so I’m really happy that round saved...
No rider forgets where they were when they earned their first 5* 1.60m victory. But for France’s Cyrine Cherif, you can bet that memory will carry some extra-special weight. After...
Kent Farrington has three words to describe Greya: "My favorite horse." And rightfully so. The world no. 2 has piloted a plethora of five-star winners over the past decade—Voyeur, Ladon...
Three years ago, few people outside of Normandy, France had ever heard of Nina Mallevaey. Dynastie de Beaufour had never earned a place on a 5* podium. But in the...
Hermes was famously known as the messenger of the Gods and the protector of travelers, merchants, and athletes. He was also a notorious speedster whose golden, winged sandals allowed him...
It’s the hope of show jumping owners and riders everywhere that they’ll one day have a championship-caliber horse on the barn aisle. But it's not always easy to sustain that...
In the World of Welly (Wellington, Florida), it is said that any horse less than eight years old walks around in a cloak of invisibility. Expenses are high, riders are...
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...
