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Make 2025 the Year of Healthy Sport

I love this sport. Anyone who rides will tell you that equestrian is a lifestyle. It's your family. It's your base. It’s your identity. That’s especially true for youth athletes....

Be a Champion for Healthy Sport

Are you a concerned parent whose child just started riding? A coach hoping to bring best practices to your team? A passionate rider at a beloved, longtime barn, looking to...

Chris Pack: Everything I Know About Life & Running a Horse Show I Learned in Rugby

I didn’t set out to be a rugby player. I thought I was a soccer player. I didn't even try rugby until grade 11 and only because my high school...

How to Stand Up to a Bully

A few years ago, Rusty Sullivan, Executive Director of The Sports Museum in Boston, appeared on a local radio show to talk about the museum’s award-winning bullying prevention program, Boston...

Archie Cox: “We can all do better”

I have always enjoyed teaching. Every day that I walk into the ring, I get excited that I can help someone get better and that I can become a better...

Erynn Ballard: Ten Years Ago, I Was Known as a Hunter Rider

Opportunity is everything. I know because I’ve been on both sides of it. My parents are professionals so I grew up in the barn with a lot of access to...

Tiffany Foster: You Won’t Know If You Don’t Try

My mom and I drove by our old place in Langley the other week and she asked me, ‘Tiffany, when we were living in that house, would you ever have...

Amy Millar: There Aren’t Many Moms in the Grand Prix

I grew up a Millar. Show jumping is our family business. From my first breath, I’ve had a front row seat to the best in the business. I watched my...

Small Jumps Make Big Strides for #WeRideTogether This Summer at Thunderbird

When it comes to creating a major cultural shift, don’t discount the little things. Often, a handful of small-yet-thoughtful actions can be just as effective as, or more than, major...

EU-Funded Study Suggests Young Athletes Need to Be Protected Early and With an Open Mind

Each spring, the best team and individual riders in the country are crowned in hunter-seat and western competition during the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association’s National Championship. As the cameras flash...

Passion Meets Purpose in Equestrian Stockholm’s New Endless Glow Line for Women

Scroll through the memes on any horse girl’s social media feed and you’ll likely stumble across the same old tropes. Go to the barn and you’ll never come back. Own...

“Competing for Something Better” at the MeadowGrove & Friends Open Classic

There are few things more rewarding in show jumping than the feeling that comes from topping the podium of a big startlist in a big money jump-off class. Except, maybe,...

What to Do When You See Something Troubling

I can remember where I was standing. It was just an ordinary coffee shop, somewhere in Midtown New York. The midday rush was on, and the counter was swamped with...

Get Your Charity on This Sunday at DIHP

At Desert International Horse Park, you don’t have to win to champion safe, healthy sport. But you win even more when you do! Joining forces for the second year in...

Riding Through It

Trigger warning: This story discusses personal reflections on rape and sexual assault. When I was 10, I fell off a horse for one of the first times. She didn’t do...

Power Imbalances Are A Part of Sports—And That’s Just What Abusers Are Counting On

At first glance, the Olympic Training Center might seem a long way from the neighborhood swimming pool, skating rink, or riding school. It’s not as distant as you’d think. Even...

10 Resolutions For a Safer, Brighter New Year in Sport

Whether you’re eating healthier, taking up daily meditation, or embracing ‘Dry January,’ the New Year is all about self-improvement. But it’s not just people who can benefit from methodically implemented,...

Should I Send a Dick Pic? Take the Quiz!

Innovation in the 21st century has reshaped society in ways good, bad, and largely still unknown. In addition to rapid gene sequencing (good!), AI (terrifying!), and space travel (we’ll get...

How Equine-Assisted Therapy Helps Survivors of Sexual Trauma

At 28 years old, there aren’t many jobs that Gunner, a former cow horse, is still qualified to do. His feet are sore, so he requires special padded shoeing to...

Equestrian Canada Open Classic Benefitting #WeRideTogether Is a “Certified” Success

“I am so happy!” enthused Richelle Cornell (CAN), after winning the Equestrian Canada Open Classic Benefitting #WeRideTogether class at Thunderbird Show Park on Sunday, aboard Certified. “I honestly really believe...

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