The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athletes selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team for FEI Show Jumping Nations Cup Lisbon CSIO3*...
As we were organizing tack and equipment at the start of the 2004 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Kim Meier told me it had been 20 years since her first time...
Hello, friends. It has been a minute.
Our last blog update feels like forever ago. To recap, my young Thoroughbred, Sig, and I moved to the United Kingdom...
The first time Sinead Halpin Maynard sat on I-Quid J, she knew that he was the horse for her. Never mind that she was eight months pregnant. Never mind that he...
After 22 years of hosting and organizing the Copper Meadows Horse Trials on the outskirts of Ramona, California, the Hoffos family has decided to stop...
When I was 11 or 12, I briefly owned a pretty gray mare. She was wildly hormonal and perpetually yellow, and ultimately, for reasons unrelated to her...
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...
By now, many people have heard what is happening on the West Coast amid a serious outbreak of EHV-1, but that story feels very different for those of...
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