Liz Halliday-Sharp has been feeling anxious about the Olympic selection process since her top-ten finish at last month’s Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event riding Deniro Z. “I feel like I’ve...
This day, pre-pandemic, would have been the eve of the XXXII Olympic Summer Games. The world's best athletes would have descended upon Japan to take up the hope, the heartbreak, the glory...
One of the world’s most promising young dressage riders is in critical condition after suffering a serious brain bleed on May 5. Juan Matute Guimon, a prospect for Spain’s Olympic...
Save the date! The Tokyo Olympics have been rescheduled for Jul. 23, 2021 to Aug. 9, 2021, nearly one year to the day after the Games were due to start this summer....
After mounting pressure from nations and athletes, Japan and the International Olympic Committee have postponed the Tokyo 2020 Olympics until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. And while COVID-19 is...
COVID-19 has won this round. But the Games will go on. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Tuesday, Mar. 24 that the Toyko 2020 Games have officially been postponed by...
With COVID-19 spurred event cancellations now spreading into June and July, the Longines Masters has pulled the plug on the Lausanne leg of their 2020 season. It's the second event...
The 45th anniversary of North America's top show jumping facility is not to be. Equestrian event heavyweight Spruce Meadows, of Calgary, AB, announced Monday that the 2020 Summer Series has...
*UPDATED: Mar. 24, 2020* Three days before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially postponed the Tokyo Games, Team Australia began preparing for the inevitable. On Sunday, Mar. 22, the Australian...
*Updated Mar. 24, 2020* The Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committees jointly announced Sunday that Canadian athletes will not be sent to the Summer Games in 2020 due to COVID-19 risks....
Russian dressage rider Inessa Merkulova is in a medically-induced coma fighting for her life following a riding accident in January in Germany. For more than 20 years, Merkulova has been...
Will coronavirus concerns affect the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo? It's a possibility that cannot be ignored. The Japanese Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have made it...
Canadian show jumper Nicole Walker is having a bad day. The worst kind of day for a national team member. The 26-year-old, Canada's leading jumping rider at the 2019 Pan...
There’s a lot of furor in the seemingly staid upper crust world of equestrian sports these past few months. The FEI—that is, the people “in charge” of equestrian sports—are desperately...
Everything’s coming up equestrian! British show jumping veteran Nick Skelton and dressage phenom Charlotte Dujardin closed 2016 with Olympic individual gold medals. Now they’re kicking off 2017 with a Commander...
When the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) General Assembly voted on the proposed Olympic format change to three-member teams for the Tokyo 2020 on Tuesday, the Canadian federation voted with the overwhelmingly majority....
The FEI General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposed format changes for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020. Under the new proposals, the number of...
At age 27, Lauren Billys qualified to ride for Puerto Rico in the Individual Eventing competition at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games aboard her 14-year-old Irish Sporthorse, Castle Larchfield Purdy....
Kara Chad of Calgary, Alberta was the Travelling Reserve for the Canadian Show Jumping Team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Here she recounts what it's...
Sure, I had my focus on the athletes that I coached throughout the Olympic Games. But Rio was also a great case study for the habits of highly successful athletes that ever competitor...
