Category Archives: Interviews & Profiles

“For a little while our partnership was a bit ‘Jesus take the wheel’,” said Corinne Sweeney (USA) of her now heart horse, 12-year-old mare Tara M. Previously campaigned by Olympian...

JustWorld International’s newly formed Youth Ambassador Gala Committee is composed of 15 Ambassadors between the ages of 13 and 22, who have set off on a mission to champion their...

If you have someone in your acquaintance that happens to have a connection to royalty, it's best to hope that person also lacks a sense of humor.  Unfortunately, for legendary...

Many riders choose to attend college as a fallback plan for their dream job in horse sport. For Simon McCarthy, the safety net only went so far. “My parents made...

The wee hours of the morning are reserved for night owls, overnight workers, and, apparently, Canadian show jumper Erynn Ballard. “I've just been getting up really early,” says Ballard, who...

Horseracing in the United States was born on the farmlands of the nation’s Southern states and in border states like Kentucky where African Americans dominated the workforce of the slavery-era....

"It just goes to show that you never know what's around the corner, because a year ago I didn't have a Grand Prix horse," said Canadian show jumper Beth Underhill,...

Israeli show jumper Ashlee Bond has a secret edge when it comes to winning jump-offs—something she does quite a lot. Bond, who is both manager and member of the Major...

There is perhaps nothing more mythically American than the up-by-the-bootstraps working class striver whose path to success involves fulfilling one’s dream through hard work, persistence and a little luck. That...

When Harriet deLeyer was a young girl in the late 1950s, she and her siblings would take their father’s horse swimming in the Long Island Sound during the hot summer...

Evergate Stables horses don’t have a therapist. But if they did, he’d probably look and act a lot like Assistant Trainer Simone Besutti. Instead of a therapist’s chair, though, you’re...

Medina Spirit collapsed and died on a Monday morning earlier this month after a routine five-furlong workout at Santa Anita in preparation for an undetermined race in which he would...

Major League Show Jumping is back at Traverse City Horse Shows in Michigan this week for Phase 5 of the 10-leg season. As the tour continues, we’re shining the spotlight...

Both were foaled in 2003, a year when the respected Thoroughbred racing crop would include Sweetnorthernsaint, Bluegrass Cat, Lawyer Ron and Brother Derek among others. One was a son of...

The inaugural season of Major League Show Jumping, a new league of five-star events in North America, launched in Traverse City, MI, last week—the first of 10 events that will...

International show jumper Kelli Cruciotti-VanderVeen boasts a long list of accomplishments aboard her longtime mount, Hadja van Orshof. After all, the Belgian Warmblood mare took the 23-year-old young professional to...

There are singular announcer calls in racing that have come to define the glory of the sport. Who can forget “He’s moving like a tremendous machine!” Chic Anderson’s unforgettable analogy...

Alyssa Phillips is a name you should get used to hearing. The U25 ranked developing rider won the biggest event of her burgeoning career last month—the inaugural Lexington CCI4*-S at...

“Every rider will probably say sitting on a horse is their religion. You have something big in life that you’re working through—you get on a horse and go ride. They...

Valerie Pride owns and operates Blue Clover Eventing, born at least in part from the peculiar twist of fate that there is no option for professional women’s lacrosse as a...