Back in 2014, Heritage Farm trainer Patricia Griffith tagged her former student, Samantha Schaefer, in a Facebook post showing a picture of the horse...
When Brittni Raflowitz says blood, sweat and tears have gone into her partnership with Hilton Van De Breepoel, she’s not exaggerating. Since pairing up with...
If ever there was a pony stuck in a horse’s body, it would be Bond. While he’s got a big cresty neck and a pony face with delicate features, it’s his...
The U.S. Center for SafeSport ruled professional rider and trainer Jeff Campf permanently ineligible to compete on March 1. The reason for the sanction, which...
Four years ago last month, Facebook reminded me, was Elvis’ debut into the American dressage world: We’d been selected to ride in a master class with the...
Sabine Schut-Kery sometimes struggled to hold back tears while reflecting on the recent retirement of Sanceo, her partner of 14 years and a breakout star of...
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,...
As the farm manager for Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Marc Richardson attends the birth of 60 to 70 foals each year. When the phone rings,...
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