For show jumping fans in 2026, the season’s summer dog days will mean just one thing: It’s time to breakout the popcorn. Not only do we have the upcoming FEI...
Shakeups are par for the course in the lead-up to major championships, and this summer’s FEI Jumping World Championships, taking place August 19-23 at the Allianz Park in Aachen, Germany,...
The Al Shira'aa King George V Gold Cup. It’s a whoop of Whitakers. If you’re wondering how I know this, I consulted The Book of St. Albans, compiled by Dame...
With the 2026 FEI Jumping World Championships in Aachen just around the corner, the show jumping spotlight is naturally focused on to the top, horse-and-rider combinations most likely to make...
If you’ve been planning to place some Polymarket bets on the medal winners of the upcoming 2026 FEI Jumping World Championships in Aachen, Germany, next month, you may want to...
I love me a derby. It separates the men from the boys. The women from the girls. The horsemen from the hobbyists. But with philanthropic endeavors that fill a standard...
After nearly two decades living in Belgium and the Netherlands, Italy’s Piergiorgio Bucci was feeling, in his words, “heavy… deep within.” He missed his home country of Italy—the culture, the food, the...
Sometimes show jumping gives you lemons, and sometimes it gives you an inclement downpour in the middle of the Spruce Meadows International Ring. Rain or shine, World No. 2 Richard...
Max Kühner knows a thing or two about a champagne shower. The Austrian rider currently ranks among the top eight show jumpers in the world for 5* 1.60m podium finishes,...
In The Netherlands on Sunday, the jump off for the Huawei Grand Prix of Rotterdam was flush with riders and their mounts—11 of them—so much so that this journalist, 4,582...
Less than a year after making history as the youngest-ever winner of an LGCT Grand Prix in Rabat at the age of 19, Monaco’s Anastasia Nielsen has proven she’s no...
New Zealand rider Katie Laurie knows a thing or two about straddling different worlds—not to mention different continents. The daughter of show jumping parents from New Zealand and Australia, Laurie...
The pup had spotted his quarry. He followed it with eager eyes, one ringed with black, as if he were a cartoon animal that had been punched. An ear flopped...
“He's a winner. He's been a winner at every level. He's the horse that I just really believe in.” That was Kyle King talking about Replay Touch van de Stapelheyde....
Watching Lillie Keenan and Kick On’s foot-perfect jump-off round on Saturday, May 23 in the Second Qualifier for the Rolex Grand Prix on Sunday at TSCHIO Aachen, commentator Charlotte Smet...
“I mean, honestly, I do lose stirrups more often than I should,” Conor Swail confessed after Sunday's CSI4* Grand Prix at Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, BC. But it doesn't...
At 13 years old and still in the prime of her career, the chestnut Selle Français mare Diriyah—formerly known as Dubai du Cedre—has already accomplished more than most horses have...
All told, Simon Delestre hasn’t spent much time in Gatsby du Tillard's saddle. While their time together spans just eight months since he took over the reins from Belgium’s Benny...
Ask Andre Thieme what the most memorable achievement of his partnership with the extraordinary DSP Chakaria has been and he'll tell you in one word: Aachen. In 2024, the German...
