The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the four athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Adequan U.S. Para Dressage Team at the...
Hunter/jumper trainer Sam Berry was arrested Jan. 19 in Lexington, Kentucky, on felony charges related to alleged sexual abuse of a minor. He was released...
This year, my equitation-obsessed, 14-year-old-daughter, Quinn, embarked on her journey in the “Big Eq." Instead of spending hours caught up in my own mental...
Around John French’s barn in Wellington, Florida, if you’re having a bad day, there’s one horse who can lift your spirits: Babylon—or “Crumbles," as...
Whether at a fall indoor championship or a quiet summer show in Ocala, Florida, when Ariana Marnell approaches the in-gate on Babylon, there’s a shift in the...
Will Coleman finished the year as the top U.S. rider on the FEI Eventing World Athlete Rankings, in fifth place. A member of the silver-medal winning team at...
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,...
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,...
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