This is our premier issue, where we feature our editorial staff’s picks for horsemen and horses of the year in each of the competitive disciplines we cover.  We also feature a unique statistical review, found nowhere else, binging together the major results from the past year’s competitions in each discipline. 

In 2005, two riders showed themselves to be heads and shoulders above their competition, and we chose to honor both them and two of their horses.  Read about Phillip Dutton’s remarkable achievements with the wonderfully consistent four-star event horse, The Foreman, and others.  And see how Beezie Madden has developed Judgement ISF, and many others, into international show jumpers at the top of their games.  Also, Popeye K, the Beacon Hill team, Kingston, Anne Gribbons, and Suzy Stafford.  There’s a lot in this issue.  Please enjoy!