Category Archives: World Cup

Six 5* Grand Prix wins for any horse is exceptional. To win six at age 12? That's a special kind of elite. In the past decade, only one 12-year-old horse...

“It wasn’t a disadvantage to go first in the jump-off," said Denis Lynch of his pathfinder position in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup of Stuttgart on Sunday. "Quite the...

Geñay Vaughn made her World Cup debut a winning one in Thermal and its mom she has to thank. Vaughn and Gino dominated the FEI Dressage World Cup Thermal Grand...

With 10 prior victories in the FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix Freestyle at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Isabell Werth is no stranger to winning at Stuttgart. On Saturday, the 55-year-old made it 11....

It's not common for a horse to make its international Grand Prix debut at age 15, but that hasn't hurt David McKinnon and Estupendo's podium count. Imported from the Netherlands...

Mary Hanna is riding high after the Paris 2024 Games and, in the past month, it's taken her to a national championship title and World Cup win. The six-time Olympian...

Sophie Hinners is making her first full season at the CSI5* level one for the record books and herstory. A week ago in Lyon, Hinner's boyfriend, Richard Vogel (GER), won...

Alex Matz didn't win every five-star class at the 2024 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, but he won most of the big ones. The American's winning week started with...

Jessica Dertell doesn't always win, but she's certainly a safe bet to get the job done. The 19-year-old Australian dressage rider has contested 111 international classes to date and won...

“I can’t believe it. "If you had told me this would happen a year ago, I would have said that you’re crazy. It’s a shock to me. I am thrilled...

Anna Marek is having the competitive season of her life. Just five months ago, in October, the 34-year-old American made her championship debut at the Pan American Games in Santiago...

It was the Four-in-Hand Final we all deserved this weekend in Bordeaux. There, the Netherlands’ Bram Chardon beat the 2023/24 season leader and defending 10-time Champion Boyd Exell (AUS) to...

When Ireland's Daniel Coyle elected to compete in Europe this season instead his usual winter haunt of Wellington, Florida, he dubbed it a "training exercise." Preparation for the Paris Olympics...

Just one. Sometimes that's all the horse power it takes to achieve your career aspirations in the ring. For Mexican amateur rider Jose Alberto Martinez Vazquez that horse is Quinley....

Even legends need to check their rearview mirrors. Competing against a stacked field of 15, Great Britain's Charlotte Fry and her trusty Everdale once again outshone the competition at the...

If 2023 ended on a high note for Ireland's Daniel Coyle, 2024 is starting with one. Last year, the 29-year-old logged his most successful year to date, jumping to 50...

Mom's Toupie de la Roque is not a winner, per se. Under Pieter Devos's saddle since 2021, the 17-year-old mare has jumped to just four podium finishes over 106 international...

Germany's Felicitas Hendricks had goals in mind when she shipped her horses from Europe to Wellington, Florida for the 2024 Adequan Global Dressage Festival, her eighth consecutive winter season in...

Christian Ahlmann (GER) has had Mandato van de Neerheide in his string for the past five years. But it's only in the past six months that the horse is garnering...

Personal bests and “best ever” scores were the order of the day in the sixth leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League in Mechelen, Belgium. But...