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Award-winning rider, trainer and course designer Anthony D’Ambrosio and internationally respected official and clinician Linda Allen were inducted...
Award-winning rider, trainer and course designer Anthony D’Ambrosio and internationally respected official and clinician Linda Allen were inducted...
When Nick Haness was 8, he had a miniature horse barn in his room. Each of the stalls was labeled with the name of its occupant, and he had a tiny...
Three U.S. riders have qualified to compete in the FEI Dressage World Cup Final, coming up April 3-8 in Omaha, Nebraska. The final North American...
When Brittni Raflowitz says blood, sweat and tears have gone into her partnership with Hilton Van De Breepoel, she’s not exaggerating. Since...
Only two horses made the time on Capt. Mark Phillips' windy cross-country track today at the $50,000 Grand-Prix Eventing at Bruce's Field...
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Back in 2014, Heritage Farm trainer Patricia Griffith tagged her former student, Samantha Schaefer, in a Facebook post showing a picture of the horse...
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,...
With shows shut down for several months in 2020 due to COVID-19, hunter/jumper rider Maddy Thatcher thought she’d take the extra time at home to...
David “Seymour” Clark didn’t question show manager Oliver Kennedy’s request for help in center ring during the 2011 Capital Challenge Horse...
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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...
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In the dark of early morning Tuesday, in tackrooms—and, let’s be real, probably bathrooms—around Thermal, California; Wellington, Florida; and...
He was a 10-year-old, 15-hand, flea-bitten gray Arabian named Lazur Hess, just off the track, where he had won more than $100,000. My trainer,...
More than 200 Lusitano enthusiasts converged upon the dressage hub of Loxahatchee, Florida, this week to attend the inaugural U.S. Lusitano...
Beverly Strauss co-founded MidAtlantic Horse Rescue with Ginny Suarez in 2002 in Chesapeake City, Maryland. They average 100 rehomes a year of horses...
On St. Patrick’s Day, between 30 and 40 foot-pack enthusiasts gathered at the Strathalbyn Farms Club gazebo in Weldon Spring, Mo., for the 38th...
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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,...
Horse Care
The central Virginia horse community was rocked recently by the discovery of alleged abuse and neglect at an equine retirement facility run by a...
Three horses at a Roanoke County, Virginia, stable have been confirmed with equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy, the neurological version of...
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF), in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the California Animal...
In the summer of 2015, Emil Spadone flew to the winter base of his Redfield Farm in Ocala, Florida, from his summer home in Califon, New Jersey, to...
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,...
Few things are worse than having a Not Quite Right (NQR) horse. The horse who is never lame but also never fully performing at the level you know...
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