Category Archives: Show Jumping

Santiago Lambre (MEX) is on a campaign to put the most mileage under 13-year-old Hanoverian mare Casey's hooves in the least amount of strides possible. On Thursday, they added the CSI4*...

What were your most memorable achievements at age 14? Getting your braces off? Setting the new high score on Mario Kart?  For 14-year-old Michelle Berry, it's winning an FEI class....

If you’ve been wondering what the ‘CHF’ stands for before prize money offerings in this year’s big Wellington International Grand Prix classes, you’re not alone.  Take, for instance, Ben Maher’s...

Karen! came to Chestnut Hills' Shayne and Skylar Wireman as a 1.20m horse sales horse in the fall of 2021. She’s described on her sales page as “Never mareish, always...

After a week off to rest, recoup and restart, Desert Circuit returns to Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, CA for Week IV of the nine week winter circuit. Master...

Every new partnership is entitled to some bumps in the road, even when one of them is the reigning Olympic Champion. But when Great Britain’s Ben Maher and Dallas Vegas Batilly returned...

Another day, another top finish for American rider Lacey Gilbertson and Karlin van’t Vennehof. Only this time, the rest of the field discovered there was no catching them in the...

"I have a great team coming up," said U.S. Olympic medalist Kent Farrington. To some, that might sound like a simple, positive sentiment. To show jumpers, however, it's a veiled...

When Belgium's Gregory Wathelet decided to spend the winter season in California instead of Spain, he no doubt did the cost analysis calculations. How much he'd have to spend to...

Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees. Real Madrid vs Barcelona. Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali. Sports rivalries have long exhilarated fans. The thrill of watching two greats battle for...

“I’m lucky enough at the minute; I have a string of small, fast horses," said world no. 5 Conor Swail on Friday. “They’re so much fun. They run along very...

"This is actually our first FEI show together and I'm just taking my time with him. I think he's going to be a very good horse in the future so...

For Conor Swail, the current world no. 5, winning a class is something that happens on a regular basis. Yet, each class (and horse) is unique, and such things stand...

The stage was set for a blazing jump off. Five horse and rider combinations qualified for course designer Colm Quinn’s short track in the $145,100 Whittier Trust Grand Prix at...

"For him to win here, and on my birthday...just wow," said a ringside Teddy Vlock (ISR), who stood beaming as Darragh Kenny (IRL) and Volnay du Boisdeville galloped victoriously around...

If the crowd at Desert International Horse Park (DIHP) wasn't familiar with the drum rolls and triumphant trumpeting of the Belgian national anthem before, they certainly are now. Olympian Gregory...

Gregory Wathelet's Argentina de la Marchette is the result of a bit of luck. Bred by Gregory Wathelet’s father, Hubert, and born on their family farm in Luxembourg, she’s the...

Big news from Equestrian Canada. The national federation announced a change to its high-performance lineup for show jumping. Eric Lamaze, who has served as the Technical Advisor for Jumping for...

“It’s a very short history," said Sarah Scheiring (USA) of her partnership with 11-year-old mare Margriet de Mariposa. "We went to our first horse show at Tryon in October and...

Most people come to California for the temperate weather, tropical palm trees and tranquil beaches. Belgium’s Gregory Wathelet simply wanted a change of scenery. “It was just to try something...