Category Archives: Interviews & Profiles

2014 was an amazing year for me. I made the US dressage team for the first time. I competed on my first European tour and in my first championship. And...

It was a crazy time. Russia was set to host the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Six months before the Games they invaded Afghanistan. In protest, the Americans lead a boycott...

The first time that I competed seriously to make a team was in 1983. I was trying out for the Pan American Games on a Grand Prix horse called Romantico....

When Laura Graves (USA) and Verdades went supernova in 2014, skyrocketing from relative obscurity to a fourth-place finish at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, it seemed like they...

She’s a Stanford student during the week and moonlights as a show jumper on the weekend. Jennifer Gates, daughter of tech-magnate-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, may be a billionaire by blood but...

Great fiction is made of grand adventures, but in real life, they're far less common. Not for Meredith Cherry. This fall, Cherry will embark on The Centauride, an epic quest...

Show jumping was in my breeding, so to speak. Both my parents were professional riders, so I grew up at a horse show. I wouldn't say I was obsessed with...

Three years ago, Canadian show jumper Erynn Ballard had a potentially career ending fall in the hunter ring. It left her with a broken collarbone, shoulder joint and shattered scapula—all...

Take it away Captain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ob-_N5ZFQ Candian show jumper Ian Millar is a living legend. He's the most decorated equestrian athlete in the country. He holds the world record for most...

In homage to maternal wisdom this Mother’s Day, we asked top riders across North America: “What’s the best advice your mom ever gave you?” [show-list]

Carina Maiwald's first job was working as a graphic designer for a newspaper in her native Germany. But it didn't take long for her to realize that she was too...