Around 5:30 a.m. on Monday morning following the 2021 Blue Grass Festival in Lexington, Kentucky, Geoffrey Hesslink received a worrisome call from his...
When Boyd Martin canters down centerline Thursday at the FEI Eventing Nations Cup Netherlands CCIO4*-L, it will be one of many team appearances for him, but...
"Adult amateur." In the hunter/jumper world, the phrase conjures many images: the timid woman, sitting nervously on her fat, happy packer at the in-gate; the...
When Tori Kager purchased a 3-year-old chestnut mare recently off the track in 2014, she had high expectations for the young Thoroughbred as an eventing...
Devon, Pa.—Sept. 30
When Alice Tarjan bought Serenade MF as a foal from her breeder, Maryanna Haymon, she never expected she’d be winning in the Dixon...
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,...
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