When Anna Marek met Fayvel in 2020, she knew the gelding had the talent for Grand Prix, and she enjoyed teaching both him and his amateur owner Cynthia Davila the movements. Davila showed the 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Zizi Top—Ofra, Houston) in several small tour and Grand Prix CDIAm classes between 2021 and early 2023, […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athletes selected for the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Wellington CSIO4* in Wellington, Florida, Feb. 28-March 3. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland and team leader Lizzy Chesson and supported by U.S. Jumping Team veterinarian Dr. Heather Sherman and U.S. […]
When Molly Duda’s eventing partner Lilly became injured, she wasn’t sure what the next step would be for her equestrian goals. Then Duda’s trainer, Mickayla Howard, stepped in and suggested she tack up Disco Traveler. The U.S.-bred Oldenburg (Donatelli—Cadence) had competed through the CCI3*-L level on the East Coast with Emily Bradford before he arrived […]
Riding two of her longtime partners, Jenny Karazissis picked up back-to-back wins at Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California, on Feb. 9. The rider kicked off her winning day on Big Shot, a 13-year-old Holsteiner owned by Dulcie Lou Morris, who claimed first in the $5,000 USHJA National hunt-and-go derby. Later that afternoon, she piloted […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the combinations selected to The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team and U.S. Dressage U25 Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA to be held Feb. 22-25, during the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. This will be the first team outing of the 2024 competition season for […]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s a memorable Appaloosa gelding named Crocodile turned heads on the West Coast show jumping circuit. But for his rider, the late Twinkie Nissen, some of his biggest accomplishments weren’t over colored poles at all. Born Dorothy Watson, as a young child Nissen told her father, William Harris Watson, […]
As her graduation date from the University of Kentucky loomed at the end of 2022, Cosby Green faced a question many seniors must answer: What comes next? Just as many college graduates choose to continue their education, Green decided to do the same, but hers wouldn’t take place in a traditional classroom. Instead, she booked […]
Ahhhh, the horse show life, where long days revolve around equine charges’ health, happiness and competition-readiness—and possibly a little romance with someone else spending the same long hours in the barns. Equestrians’ entire lives center on their charges, so it’s perhaps no surprise that many riders find love among those with the same passions. For this […]
My horse Dixie came into my life at the end of 2019, when she was 15 and I was 25. She was the subject of decades of my dreams and everything I had ever wanted. She had been out of work for several years prior, so between her relatively low mileage for her age and […]
The Show Jumping Hall of Fame announced today that Francisco “Pancho” Lopez, longtime barn manager for Katie Monahan Prudent and then Elise Haas, and Cedric, Laura Kraut’s gold medal Olympic mount, are this year’s inductees. They will be formally inducted during the Hall of Fame’s Induction Gala on Sunday, March 3, at The Wanderers Club in […]
When Anna Marek met Fayvel in 2020, she knew the gelding had the talent for Grand Prix, and she enjoyed teaching both him and his amateur owner Cynthia Davila the movements. Davila showed the 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Zizi Top—Ofra, Houston) in several small tour and Grand Prix CDIAm classes between 2021 and early 2023, […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athletes selected for the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Wellington CSIO4* in Wellington, Florida, Feb. 28-March 3. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland and team leader Lizzy Chesson and supported by U.S. Jumping Team veterinarian Dr. Heather Sherman and U.S. […]
When Molly Duda’s eventing partner Lilly became injured, she wasn’t sure what the next step would be for her equestrian goals. Then Duda’s trainer, Mickayla Howard, stepped in and suggested she tack up Disco Traveler. The U.S.-bred Oldenburg (Donatelli—Cadence) had competed through the CCI3*-L level on the East Coast with Emily Bradford before he arrived […]
Riding two of her longtime partners, Jenny Karazissis picked up back-to-back wins at Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California, on Feb. 9. The rider kicked off her winning day on Big Shot, a 13-year-old Holsteiner owned by Dulcie Lou Morris, who claimed first in the $5,000 USHJA National hunt-and-go derby. Later that afternoon, she piloted […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the combinations selected to The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team and U.S. Dressage U25 Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA to be held Feb. 22-25, during the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. This will be the first team outing of the 2024 competition season for […]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s a memorable Appaloosa gelding named Crocodile turned heads on the West Coast show jumping circuit. But for his rider, the late Twinkie Nissen, some of his biggest accomplishments weren’t over colored poles at all. Born Dorothy Watson, as a young child Nissen told her father, William Harris Watson, […]
As her graduation date from the University of Kentucky loomed at the end of 2022, Cosby Green faced a question many seniors must answer: What comes next? Just as many college graduates choose to continue their education, Green decided to do the same, but hers wouldn’t take place in a traditional classroom. Instead, she booked […]
Ahhhh, the horse show life, where long days revolve around equine charges’ health, happiness and competition-readiness—and possibly a little romance with someone else spending the same long hours in the barns. Equestrians’ entire lives center on their charges, so it’s perhaps no surprise that many riders find love among those with the same passions. For this […]
My horse Dixie came into my life at the end of 2019, when she was 15 and I was 25. She was the subject of decades of my dreams and everything I had ever wanted. She had been out of work for several years prior, so between her relatively low mileage for her age and […]
The Show Jumping Hall of Fame announced today that Francisco “Pancho” Lopez, longtime barn manager for Katie Monahan Prudent and then Elise Haas, and Cedric, Laura Kraut’s gold medal Olympic mount, are this year’s inductees. They will be formally inducted during the Hall of Fame’s Induction Gala on Sunday, March 3, at The Wanderers Club in […]
