Equestrian Canada announced today, June 23, the horse-and-rider combinations that will represent the country at the Tokyo Olympic Games, July 23-Aug....
Beezie Madden’s 2013 Rolex FEI World Cup Final (Sweden) winner Simon died June 21. He was 22.
Under Jeroen Dubbeldam’s saddle, the Dutch Warmblood (Mr....
It’s been a few weeks since I arrived home from my first recognized show of the season in Lexington, Virginia. The horse-show hangover subsided, and I’ve...
On a sunny day in July 2014, Leslie Ann McGowan got the phone call.
She was teaching at her family’s Linden Woods Farm, a 20-horse boarding facility in...
I’ve made many FEI dressage horses, most of them out of horses who were complete and utter ding-dongs as children but reformed enough by middle age to be...
Boyd Martin has made a substitution for his Tokyo Olympic eventing mount after Luke 140 sustained an injury in training.
Martin originally was named to the...
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,...
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