Three-time Olympic medalist Eric Lamaze (CAN) has withdrawn from consideration for the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 2008 Beijing individual gold medalist cited health concerns and the absence of...
As our team gears up to get back on the show circuit after a COVID break, I'm training and riding more than ever. Silly or not, nothing motivates me more...
I'm a big believer in "less is more" when it comes to tack and riding equipment. I like to focus on basics and keep my riding and my gear as...
I try to keep my #ROOTD game strong. (See #ROOTD posts past.) And I like my horses to be well turned out, too. #EOOTD, if you will. For both, I...
The bad news: there will be no Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of Canada at Thunderbird Show Park this year. The good news: no international riders will be subjected to...
Andrew Kocher will not be competing this decade. The American show jumper was issued a 10 year ban and disqualified from eight events by the FEI Tribunal for use of...
History has graced humankind with many famous Erkels. There's Ferenc Erkel, the father of Hungarian grand opera. And Dutch former medical aid worker Arjan Erkel, who headed a relief mission...
HITS Shows has hosted 22 individual Million Dollar Grand Prix classes, at three different show grounds, in three different states across the USA since 2010. Germany's Andre Thieme has won...
A horse died in competition on Sunday, March 28 at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Lord Pizarro, an 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding ridden by Ansgar Holtgers Jr. (USA), fell while attempting a...
World #3 Daniel Deusser (GER) came to Florida's Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) to win. He's leaving with the biggest purse of the winter season and a win streak unrivaled since...
Women's History Month just got a little richer. Olympic veteran Margie Engle and McLain Ward’s two-time Olympic mare Sapphire have been elected Show Jumping Hall of Fame Class of 2020....
Irish riders brought home the green this weekend, coast to coast. At the Desert International Horse Park (DIHP) in Thermal, CA., Nicky Galligan (IRL) and Javas Miss Jordan topped a...
Ginger-Blue, aka "Cookie," and Ben Maher (GBR) rode to their first ever international 1.50m victory on Friday. The 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare, owned by Jane Forbes Clark, topped a starting...
The Show Jumping Hall of Fame Class of 2019 is official! Olympic gold and silver medalist Leslie Burr Howard and Olympic judge and longtime FEI Steward General David Distler have...
With the EHV-1 outbreak shutting down competition abroad, USA is the only country running international show jumping circuits at the moment. But you'd never know it from the headlines. Florida's...
The FEI World Cup™ Finals have been canceled for the second year in a row. This time it's ongoing outbreak of the neurological form of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) in...
There was $73,000 up for grabs in Round 9 of WEF Challenge Cup on Thursday at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida. The Irish contingent rode away with $61,320 of it....
The Spruce Meadows Summer Series has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But there's a replacement series in the works. The 5*...
Bertram Allen's "next best horse," Pacino Amiro, made his 5* debut during Week 5 of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL. By Week 7, they rode away with the...
Daniel Deusser's top horse, ‘Tobi’ arrived in Wellington, Florida less than a week ago and immediately jumped to his first 5* win of the season. “If you watch me a...
