Today we take for granted that equestrian disciplines are one of the only Olympic sports in which men and women compete on equal footing, but it wasn’t that long ago that remarkable female riders were shattering the glass ceiling. During March, we’re looking back at some of them. A version of this story first appeared […]
Wellington, Fla.—March 13 After giving the horse five months off from competition, Frederic Wandres and his 14-year-old Oldenburg gelding, Bluetooth OLD (Bordeaux 28—Lorena, Riccione), made a winning debut back under the lights at Wellington. They kicked off the CDI5* during Week 10 of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival by topping the FEI Grand Prix a […]
When Endel Ots filled out the entry for his first show with new ride Zen Elite’s Bohemian, he paused for a moment to consider: Should he ride unjudged, hors concours, to keep the pressure off? It was one of his first shows at Grand Prix, but more importantly, it would happen aboard one of the […]
The Setters’ Run Farm Carolina International and Horse Trials in Raeford, North Carolina, has long been a staple for top riders prepping for a spring five- or four-star long, and this year’s event is no different, offering spectators a lineup in the CCI4*-S stocked with some of the country’s top horses. The event begins Thursday […]
While many breeders may be tempted to start off a response to Paige Cade’s blog recently published by Chronicle of the Horse with a “cute” foaling story that captures the heart of the audience by playing on the beautiful moment when a newborn foal takes its first steps, I am not. For many breeders in […]
I was truly shocked by Paige Cade’s latest blog entry for the Chronicle of the Horse (Feb. 21, 2024), headlined “Made In America,” which so unfairly casts American sport horse breeding in a bad light that it’s hard to know which of the misinformed points it contains to push back on first. But I’ll begin […]
When we published Paige Cade’s blog, “Made In America,” in which the author tackled the question of why she doesn’t purchase more domestically bred horses, the online reaction from readers was swift and expansive. “With some exceptions, I find that many U.S.-bred horses are not of the same quality as their European counterparts,” Cade wrote, […]
Eventing has been part of the Olympics since the 1912 Games in Stockholm, and in the modern era, spectators are used to seeing the traditional order of phases—dressage, cross-country, then show jumping. But that will be changing for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics under a proposal from the Fédération Equestre Internationale that was submitted to […]
The top names in international show jumping are starting to arrive stateside in advance of the upcoming Longines League of Nations, taking place March 19-23 at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), and German Olympian Andre Thieme wasted no time making his presence known. With his 2021 FEI European Championship partner DSP Chakaria, Thieme won the $200,000 Florida Coast […]
U.S. para-equestrian athletes vying for a berth to the Paris Paralympics had a chance to make their cases for selection over the weekend at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival 9 CPEDI3* in Wellington, Florida. As part of the team competition in which the U.S. was the only entrant, Perrigo U.S. Para Dressage Team Chef d’Equipe Michel […]
Today we take for granted that equestrian disciplines are one of the only Olympic sports in which men and women compete on equal footing, but it wasn’t that long ago that remarkable female riders were shattering the glass ceiling. During March, we’re looking back at some of them. A version of this story first appeared […]
Wellington, Fla.—March 13 After giving the horse five months off from competition, Frederic Wandres and his 14-year-old Oldenburg gelding, Bluetooth OLD (Bordeaux 28—Lorena, Riccione), made a winning debut back under the lights at Wellington. They kicked off the CDI5* during Week 10 of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival by topping the FEI Grand Prix a […]
When Endel Ots filled out the entry for his first show with new ride Zen Elite’s Bohemian, he paused for a moment to consider: Should he ride unjudged, hors concours, to keep the pressure off? It was one of his first shows at Grand Prix, but more importantly, it would happen aboard one of the […]
The Setters’ Run Farm Carolina International and Horse Trials in Raeford, North Carolina, has long been a staple for top riders prepping for a spring five- or four-star long, and this year’s event is no different, offering spectators a lineup in the CCI4*-S stocked with some of the country’s top horses. The event begins Thursday […]
While many breeders may be tempted to start off a response to Paige Cade’s blog recently published by Chronicle of the Horse with a “cute” foaling story that captures the heart of the audience by playing on the beautiful moment when a newborn foal takes its first steps, I am not. For many breeders in […]
I was truly shocked by Paige Cade’s latest blog entry for the Chronicle of the Horse (Feb. 21, 2024), headlined “Made In America,” which so unfairly casts American sport horse breeding in a bad light that it’s hard to know which of the misinformed points it contains to push back on first. But I’ll begin […]
Eventing has been part of the Olympics since the 1912 Games in Stockholm, and in the modern era, spectators are used to seeing the traditional order of phases—dressage, cross-country, then show jumping. But that will be changing for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics under a proposal from the Fédération Equestre Internationale that was submitted to […]
The top names in international show jumping are starting to arrive stateside in advance of the upcoming Longines League of Nations, taking place March 19-23 at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), and German Olympian Andre Thieme wasted no time making his presence known. With his 2021 FEI European Championship partner DSP Chakaria, Thieme won the $200,000 Florida Coast […]
U.S. para-equestrian athletes vying for a berth to the Paris Paralympics had a chance to make their cases for selection over the weekend at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival 9 CPEDI3* in Wellington, Florida. As part of the team competition in which the U.S. was the only entrant, Perrigo U.S. Para Dressage Team Chef d’Equipe Michel […]
