Eighteen-year-old Hunter Holloway realized every equitation rider's dream last month when she captured the 2016 ASPCA Maclay Medal Final. But it was a victory six years in the making... As told to Carley...
Whitney Anderson was born in Alaska into a third-generation commercial fishing family and grew up in Breckenridge, Colorado, and Seattle, Washington. In 2009, she received a B.A. of Fine Arts from Duke University...
Candice King is in a plank position in the middle of the barn aisle, and she's counting off pushups. It's been two days since her cousin encouraged her to take...
2015 Pan American team silver medalist Georgina Bloomberg talks about the congenital condition that nearly brought her riding career to a premature end in 2010 and the extraordinary measures she's taken to remedy...
In the fall 2013, Nayel Nassar (EGY) was at a turning point. Just months away from graduating Stanford University, the then 22-year-old was torn between horses and a professional life. Then they won...
Earlier, this month 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Cian O'Connor was crowned 2016 Showjumper of the Year at Birmingham's Horse of the Year Show. Here he reveals the secret to his long-standing success, as told to Carley...
Walk into any major hunter/jumper show on the East Coast and there's one name you're likely to find at least once, but maybe two or three times, at the top...
Some horses take a long time to mature, and then there is Top Of The Mark, who may have done more by the age of six than most show horses...
Californian show jumper Kristin Hardin has 100 horses, 11 dogs, one cat, four goats and a reputation for doing things her own way. Between her non-traditional tack, bold riding fashion, and...
Last week at the Longines Masters of Los Angeles, Spanish horseman Santi Serra brought his rare brand of equestrian artistry to American audiences at the Long Beach Convention Center. Serra...
In March of 2014, Jamie 'Dodge' Manning's life changed forever. The rancher and rodeo rider from Dubbo, Australia, was driving home to his farm when his sport utility vehicle veered...
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...
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...
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...
