The entries in the Markel/USEF 7-Year-Old division completed their second of two tests on Friday. The FEI 7-Year-Old Final Test contributes 60% of the overall score with the remaining 40% coming from Thursday’s FEI 7-Year-Old  Preliminary Test. With wins in both tests, Rosebank VH and Katie Duerrhammer (Greenwood Village, Colorado) secured the overall championship. The […]
Zoe Lewczak was 15 years old when she realized the power she had to make a positive difference. As a teenager, she embarked on her first foray into community activism and successfully helped campaign to ban tobacco products from school properties in her home state of Virginia. “I didn’t feel like I was just being […]
Olympic silver medalist Sabine Schut-Kery on Thursday won the USEF Intermediaire I National Championship at the US Dressage Festival of Champions with and Jojoba De Massa, an 11-year-old Portuguese Sport Horse stallion (Bravour B—Tulipe De Massa, Rieto MKL) owned by Four Winds Farm. The pair danced their way to the national title by winning the […]
Amid the modern bustle of 24th Street in Manhattan stands a three-story relic of old New York—a shop that calls back to a time when city noise included hooves clattering on cobblestones. Founded in 1912, Manhattan Saddlery has been outfitting equestrians since horses were an integral part of daily life and the street was nicknamed “Old […]
The first champions of the 2025 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions were crowned Wednesday at the HITS Chicago Lamplight Equestrian Center in the Adequan/USEF Para Dressage National Championships, with Kate Shoemaker winning the Adequan/USEF Grand Prix Para Dressage National Championship and Sienna Busking winning the inaugural Adequan/USEF Intermediaire I Para Dressage National Championship. In the Adequan/USEF Grand […]
The dictionary defines versatile as: capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc. Bold Minstrel was the poster boy of versatile. Born in 1952 in Camargo, Ohio, Bold Minstrel was by Thoroughbred stallion Bold And Bad out of Wallise Simpson, who was the result of […]
Adrienne Sternlicht was just 24 when, in 2017, she made her Nations Cup debut, representing the United States on her former partner Cristalline. That mare went on to take her to the 2018 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (North Carolina) where they helped the U.S. team win gold alongside riders Sternlicht idolized. In 2022, the […]
Professional dressage rider Pam Goodrich has long understood the necessity of patience in her chosen career path. Never was that more evident to her than last month, when she rode a test 24 years in the making. In 2001, Goodrich purchased Lamborghini, a smallish Danish Warmblood with a big engine, from his breeder to develop […]
Wellington International CEO Murray Kessler on Tuesday announced a slate of upgrades for the 2026 season that will include a $1 million increase in prize money for the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, and facility upgrades throughout the venue. “The Wellington International team, with incredible support from Wellington Lifestyle Partners, has been working hard […]
The entries in the Markel/USEF 7-Year-Old division completed their second of two tests on Friday. The FEI 7-Year-Old Final Test contributes 60% of the overall score with the remaining 40% coming from Thursday’s FEI 7-Year-Old  Preliminary Test. With wins in both tests, Rosebank VH and Katie Duerrhammer (Greenwood Village, Colorado) secured the overall championship. The […]
Zoe Lewczak was 15 years old when she realized the power she had to make a positive difference. As a teenager, she embarked on her first foray into community activism and successfully helped campaign to ban tobacco products from school properties in her home state of Virginia. “I didn’t feel like I was just being […]
Olympic silver medalist Sabine Schut-Kery on Thursday won the USEF Intermediaire I National Championship at the US Dressage Festival of Champions with and Jojoba De Massa, an 11-year-old Portuguese Sport Horse stallion (Bravour B—Tulipe De Massa, Rieto MKL) owned by Four Winds Farm. The pair danced their way to the national title by winning the […]
Amid the modern bustle of 24th Street in Manhattan stands a three-story relic of old New York—a shop that calls back to a time when city noise included hooves clattering on cobblestones. Founded in 1912, Manhattan Saddlery has been outfitting equestrians since horses were an integral part of daily life and the street was nicknamed “Old […]
Flora Baptiston is meticulous by nature, an asset to her work as both an architect and Fédération Equestre Internationale jumper judge. So in 2003, when she was talking to a course designer about volunteer opportunities at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, course decoration seemed like a perfect fit. “He said, ‘I’m […]
The first champions of the 2025 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions were crowned Wednesday at the HITS Chicago Lamplight Equestrian Center in the Adequan/USEF Para Dressage National Championships, with Kate Shoemaker winning the Adequan/USEF Grand Prix Para Dressage National Championship and Sienna Busking winning the inaugural Adequan/USEF Intermediaire I Para Dressage National Championship. In the Adequan/USEF Grand […]
The dictionary defines versatile as: capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc. Bold Minstrel was the poster boy of versatile. Born in 1952 in Camargo, Ohio, Bold Minstrel was by Thoroughbred stallion Bold And Bad out of Wallise Simpson, who was the result of […]
Adrienne Sternlicht was just 24 when, in 2017, she made her Nations Cup debut, representing the United States on her former partner Cristalline. That mare went on to take her to the 2018 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (North Carolina) where they helped the U.S. team win gold alongside riders Sternlicht idolized. In 2022, the […]
Professional dressage rider Pam Goodrich has long understood the necessity of patience in her chosen career path. Never was that more evident to her than last month, when she rode a test 24 years in the making. In 2001, Goodrich purchased Lamborghini, a smallish Danish Warmblood with a big engine, from his breeder to develop […]
Wellington International CEO Murray Kessler on Tuesday announced a slate of upgrades for the 2026 season that will include a $1 million increase in prize money for the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, and facility upgrades throughout the venue. “The Wellington International team, with incredible support from Wellington Lifestyle Partners, has been working hard […]
