Category Archives: World Championships

In the sport of eventing, it's the cross country phase that's been dubbed "moving day" for its uncanny ability to rearrange the standings. Well, at the FEI Eventing World Championships...

Horses, especially CCI-5* eventing horses, are pretty much the opposite of turn key. Yet at the FEI Eventing World Championships at Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy, the Germans negotiated the 30...

A well known secret among riders is that being in the saddle is a transcendent experience. When two hearts work together as one, everyday boundaries are left at the mounting...

"I knew before I went in a fence down can happen so easily, but if I ride well and have a fault I can live with it," said Sweden's Henrik...

The expression "going Dutch," meaning to split things, is sort of how the Orifarm Healthcare FEI World Para Dressage Team Championship Grade I-V works. Grades classify athletes in accordance to...

"To follow Tokyo we had a plan," said Sweden's Chef d'Equipe Henrik Ankarcrona of their Agria FEI World Championship ambitions in Herning, Denmark. The team memorably won gold for the...

That's not exactly how Sweden's Jens Fredricson acquired the ride on 11-year-old gelding Markan Cosmopolit, but you could call it the abridged version. The real story went a little like...

Darragh Kenny's (IRL) Tokyo 2020 Olympic partner, stallion VDL Cartello, has disappeared from the start-lists this week. Citing the welfare interests of the horse, the pair will not compete in...

Julien Epaillard (FRA) and 10-year-old mare Caracole de la Roque jumped Wednesday's course faster than you can say Agria FEI World Team & Individual Jumping Championship - First Competition -...

"As soon as the music started it was the most insane feeling. [Glamourdale] was dancing to his Freestyle and I just felt I could sit there and enjoy it," said...

Crack open the history books, the Mustang FEI Vaulting World Championships 2022 in Herning (DEN) has written a few new pages. Starting with World Female Individual Vaulting Championship, where Manon...

On Sunday, Charlotte "Lottie" Fry (GBR) and Glamourdale came just a percentage shy of Catherine Laudrup-Dufour (DEN) and Vamos Amigos leading score of 81.864% in the team competition at the...

Herning 2022 hopes came up short for four of the 94 combinations to contest the ECCO FEI World Championships in Denmark on the weekend. Two pairs were eliminated in the Grand...

The Americans didn’t make the podium at Herning 2022, but it’s mission accomplished as far as the team is concerned. “Our main goal here was to qualify our country for...

The Danish got their just-desserts on Sunday in the Blue Hors FEI World Dressage Team Championship Grand Prix in Herning, Denmark. Nanna Merrald Rasmussen, Carina Cassøe Krüth, Daniel Bachmann Anderson...

"Hermes is a clown—he likes the applause and he knows it’s for him! When he enters the arena he doesn’t like to hear [clapping] but when he finishes he thinks of...

Each week on #HallOfFameThursday, Horse Network recognizes members of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame with an inductee’s plaque, historical photos and, on the first Thursday of every month, an article written by a...

The wait is over. US Equestrian has finally announced the five combinations that will ride for the red, white and blue at 2022 Agria FEI World Jumping Championship in Herning,...

In a sport where senior citizens routinely compete on the international stage and middle age is often considered the prime of an athlete’s career, Team Canada is sending decidedly greener...