Category Archives: Show Jumping

"Pacino Amiro is probably going to be my best horse," said Bertram Allen (IRL) after winning Friday's $37,000 Adequan® WEF Challenge Cup Round 2 CSI3* at the Winter Equestrian Festival...

American Olympic medalist Beezie Madden normally gives her horses a lengthy vacation in the winter before heading to Wellington, FL for the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). But after the pandemic-truncated...

“Honestly, when I tried him, I didn’t want him,” said Lillie Keenan of first time she sat on the then six-year-old stallion, Agana Van Het Gerendal Z. “I knew that...

McLain Ward (USA) has been breathing down Erynn Ballard's neck all Week 1 of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida. The American Olympic team gold medalist finished behind the Canadian...

Some relationships take years to cement. Others, a couple rides. Erynn Ballard (CAN) and the 10-year-old Belgian Sport Horse gelding Walter White fall into the latter category. The speedy pair...

Each week on #HallOfFameThursday, Horse Network recognizes members of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame with an inductee’s plaque, historical photos and, on the first Thursday of every month, an article written by a...

Each week on #HallOfFameThursday, Horse Network recognizes members of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame with an inductee’s plaque, historical photos and, on the first Thursday of every month, an article written by a...

The above photo depicts the Paris leg of the Longines Global Champion Tour/League of years past. You can clearly see the Eiffel Tower in it. But you cannot touch the...

Twenty-one-year-old Lucy Deslauriers has spent the past two months in school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. But she didn't let a little thing like not riding get in...

In fairy tales, a fairy godmother is a magical figure who often appears at the darkest hour to grant the protagonist's fondest wish. In this show jumping story, it's Ann Thompson. But instead of...

Tackling long put off home improvement projects has been a popular pandemic pastime. Jan Tops is no exception. The brain force behind the Global Champions Tour/League spent a bit of...

These are weird times that seem to give rise to new reasons to feel stressed, sad and/or outraged on an hourly basis. It's...a lot. But there's one fellow who's having...

Michael Matz is best known these days as the Kentucky Derby winning trainer of famed racehorse Barbaro. But before he was making headlines at the track, he was making them...

In the beginning... Fifty-eight pairs contested Saturday’s $250,000 STX Vans Grand Prix at Desert International Horse Park in CA. Nine found a clear path around the Manuel Esparza (MEX)-designed track...

If there's one theme from 2020 that seems determined to spill over into the new year, it's that nothing is as it was. And it could be some time before...

Thirty years go Todd Minikus (USA) won the Grand Prix that put him "on the map." Aboard the aptly named Thrilling, he rode away the victor in the 1990 Washington...

Rapper DJ Khalid and hit makers Ludacris, Rick Ross, T-Pain and Snoop Dogg might have made the phrase famous with their club banger "All I Do Is Win." But Canada's...

If you've been following the Thunderbird Harvest Welcome this week and didn't know who Katie Laurie was before, you certainly do now. On Thursday, the Australian rider captured the $37,000...

From third on the leaderboard to fifth then straight to first—the FEI U25 Division's youngest competitor at Thunderbird Show Park rode away with the biggest purse and the Series Championship...

It was a time fault that likely haunted Emily Ward's dreams last night. Leading the U25 Division after Thursday's Round 1, the $5,000 Canoe Financial U25 1.35m, Ward (GBR) and...