Jacob Pope was in awe as he watched Peter Pletcher guide Unbelievable around the ring in the winter of 2019. The warmblood mare was new to the hunter...
The Chronicle of the Horse is celebrating its 85th birthday in 2022. For the next eight weeks, leading up to the publication of our 85th Anniversary Issue,...
Since regaining consciousness following a Jan. 29 fall that left her with a severe brain injury, Cassandra Kahle has held on to one specific hope: that she...
Beverly Ruth Allen was 2 years old when her mother died in a motorcycle accident. After the accident, the young girl and her two older siblings, Charlie and...
Beverly Strauss co-founded MidAtlantic Horse Rescue with Ginny Suarez in 2002 in Chesapeake City, Maryland. They average 100 rehomes a year of horses...
As I write it’s the morning of the fifth and final day of the 2018 Chicago regional session of the USHJA’s Emerging Athletes Program. In front of me at HITS-Chicago sits a...
There isn’t a gentle way to start this post, so I’m just starting: [In March], my horse passed away.
It was a Monday, so the barn was closed until 3 p.m. As you can...
Summer has hit us like a freight train, with heat indexes over 100* and high humidity here in Virginia. Summer is long and unrelenting here in the South, so it’s acclimate or...
In my teens and 20s, becoming a better rider was about surviving in the sport.
As a kid from a non-horsey family without enough money to buy and care for a horse, learning to...
This afternoon I got a phone call from a friend and fellow event rider who has just been named to the reserve list of a certain team competition in September. I was really hoping...
I have to admit that this might be my favorite portion of this series to write. What I normally see when an equine job ad pops up on social media is something so abrasive,...
Stud fees for scores of sport horse stallions from some of the top studs in Europe are being auctioned online this week to support two organizations...