On June 23, the Danish equestrian federation, Dansk Ride Forbund, named the four horse-and-rider pairs who will compete in the Orifarm Healthcare FEI...
Charlotte Dujardin shocked the dressage world last year when she announced that she’d sold her Olympic mount Gio. Everyone wanted to know more about...
There are many factors to consider when looking for a coach. The person must be a good personality fit and offer lessons and coaching in a style that suits...
Erin is a head groom for Will Coleman Equestrian and has worked for the Virginia- and Florida-based Olympic eventer for almost two years.
She grew up in...
Amateur eventer Amy Dobbins didn't really expect her college project pony, Oliver Twist, to re-enter her life years after selling him, let alone watch...
The “1% rule,” to me, represents hope.
Here’s how the math works: If I can get 1% better each day for one year, I’ll end up 37 times better by the end...
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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