Caracole de la Roque. Donatello d’Auge. United Touch S. King Edward along with, at one point, two-thirds of the Swedish Olympic team. All of these championship horses have one thing...
At age 68, team gold and individual Olympic champion Nick Skelton doesn’t ride anymore, having officially hung up his saddle alongside his famous stallion, Big Star, one year after their...
Laura Kraut rang-in her 60th birthday last November with a truly outsized accomplishment: a top 10 place in the Longines Rankings and her best Grand Prix season to date. Earning three,...
The cardinal is often seen as a symbol of hope in times of grief. Across various cultures around the world, the flash of the songbird’s red feathers against the white...
World no. 1 eventer Harry Meade doesn't like a challenge. He lives for one. And that's saying something considering what he's already overcome. In 2013, the Brit broke and dislocated...
Notorious B.I.G. captured the idea best in the lyrics of his profound, 1996 smash hit, Mo Money Mo Problems. Biggie would probably agree, though, that the moral of the song is about...
Trigger warning: This story discusses disordered eating. You know her by voice. This is her story. Multimedia journalist and equestrian sports commentator Catie Staszak sat down with Caroline Culbertson and...
When Ariel Grange got a call from her mother, Sue, telling her Daniel Coyle was joining their Lothlorien Farms team in 2016, she wasn’t happy. “My mom called me and...
Walking down that shoot into the show ring can be stressful enough on a horse you know well and just jumped in the warm-up ring—let alone one you’ve never met...
There’s an old, well-known saying among seasoned trial lawyers: “Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.” For 15-time FEI World Cup Finalist Richard Spooner, riding, at its...
The first Major of 2025 is set to unfold Sunday with the Rolex Grand Prix at the Dutch Masters in 's-Hertogenbosch, NED. Reigning Rolex Grand Slam live contender Harrie Smolders...
As a child, I told everybody that I wanted to be a millionaire. In America, maybe that’s not unusual. But in socialist Denmark, it made me the black sheep. I...
Mark Casse always has time to talk Tepin. With a stable of horses that competes nearly every day of the week for a majority of the season across the U.S....
It was a banner 2023 for Southern Belle Thoroughbreds. When Katie Larsen looks back on the year that was, she exhales briefly, perhaps a perfect encapsulation of the busy times...
There is never enough time with a truly special horse, no matter how many years you have together. For Mathilde Candele (14), daughter of Canadian Olympian Yann Candele, that special...
Ashley Vogel (USA) had big plans going into the summer of 2022. Taking six months off to rehab a knee injury wasn't one of them. The worst part—and the best?...
If there is a central theme to Australian Paige Jardine’s show jumping career so far, its resiliency. To be sure, that’s not a new concept for horsemen—or athletes, in general....
Irish team member Paul O’Shea has been thinking a lot lately about his posting trot. “I post too high, and I look like I'm a beginner when I'm doing it,”...
There’s dedication, and then there’s Skylar Wireman. The now 18-year-old hunter/jumper rider made her pro debut this past January at Desert International Horse Park (DIHP) in Thermal, CA and jumped...
