After winning team bronze at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Lucy Deslauriers and her 15-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding Hester secured...
After winning team bronze at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Lucy Deslauriers and her 15-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding Hester secured...
Mattie Worsham couldn't believe her luck the day her trainer suggested she hop aboard Scout. The brown warmblood of unrecorded breeding held superstar...
What constitutes an amateur has long been contested in equestrian sports, and defining what is and isn't allowed has just grown more complicated in the...
Kimberly Loushin and Mollie Bailey / Dec 10, 2020 - 8:01 AM
Perhaps old dogs can’t learn new tricks, but it turns out former Grand Prix dressage stars most certainly can. Since Germany's Jessica von Bredow-Werndl...
Ever had a show jumping round that ended with the ring crew playing a game of pick-up sticks?
Eventers often discuss how to know when to call it a day on...
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,...
COVID-19 has affected nearly every person in the world, including those in our equine industry. Some have lost their jobs. Most have taken a hard hit...