The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association has announced the selected participants for the 2024 Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund/USHJA Gold Star Clinic – East. Nicki Shahinian-Simpson will lead the mounted instruction at Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Feb. 14-18, alongside stable management clinicians Rachel Long and Colleen Reed. The following riders were selected for this year’s […]
Germans are great at a lot of things. However, clearing snow from train tracks is not a strength. As I stood struggling to decipher the ever-changing schedule of arrivals, departures and delays in the frigid breezeway of the Cologne station, it occurred to me that this must be what horses feel like when they arrive […]
The latest U.S. Hunter Jumper Association virtual town hall focused on the buzz phrase of the moment, “social license to operate,” and drew 200 attendees eager to discuss how to make sure the general public approves of the use of horses in sport into the future. Those attendees included U.S. Equestrian Federation Chief of Sport […]
This article was updated on Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time to include a statement from the FEI, and again on Feb. 5 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time to include a second statement from the USEF. A video posted to dressage rider Cesar Parra’s Instagram account on Feb. 1 showing a rider, allegedly Parra, […]
This past summer, a friend, a trainer and I went to Germany and the Netherlands with an agent to look at dressage horses. After preparing for the trip and getting through the logistics of the trip itself (visiting 20 barns to sit on 28 horses) came the fun part: What happened after I found the horse I wanted. Making […]
Ema Klugman was 23 and her partner Bendigo was 19 when they tackled their first five-star at the 2021 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. Klugman, who caught the horse bug abroad and got serious about it after moving to the United States, thanks largely to the Seneca Valley Pony Club (Maryland), found Bendigo with her […]
This past summer, a friend, a trainer and I went to Germany and the Netherlands, assisted by a European agent, to look at dressage horses. I wrote previously about how I came to my decision to horse-shop overseas, and the preparations and planning I made prior to the trip. What follows is my experience: putting […]
As a little girl, objects in motion scared Vivian Palmer, particularly carousel horses. No merry association came from the merry-go-round, as the dual circling and vertical movement of the equine replicas worked little Palmer into tears. “She didn’t quite understand where her body was in space,” her mother Laura Palmer said of Vivian, who was […]
This past summer, I spent a week in Europe—specifically, the Netherlands and Germany—shopping with an agent for a horse. In four and a half days we visited 20 barns, and I rode 28 horses. I was able to find the perfect horse for me with very little hassle and within my budget. In the ensuing […]
As I listen to Tamie Smith reflect on her year, I begin to see that having our conversation here, at a picnic table beside her barn, has made Smith a bit of a sitting duck. In the few hours I talk with her at Next Level Eventing in Temecula, California, a swirl of activity tugs […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association has announced the selected participants for the 2024 Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund/USHJA Gold Star Clinic – East. Nicki Shahinian-Simpson will lead the mounted instruction at Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Feb. 14-18, alongside stable management clinicians Rachel Long and Colleen Reed. The following riders were selected for this year’s […]
Germans are great at a lot of things. However, clearing snow from train tracks is not a strength. As I stood struggling to decipher the ever-changing schedule of arrivals, departures and delays in the frigid breezeway of the Cologne station, it occurred to me that this must be what horses feel like when they arrive […]
The latest U.S. Hunter Jumper Association virtual town hall focused on the buzz phrase of the moment, “social license to operate,” and drew 200 attendees eager to discuss how to make sure the general public approves of the use of horses in sport into the future. Those attendees included U.S. Equestrian Federation Chief of Sport […]
This article was updated on Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time to include a statement from the FEI, and again on Feb. 5 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time to include a second statement from the USEF. A video posted to dressage rider Cesar Parra’s Instagram account on Feb. 1 showing a rider, allegedly Parra, […]
This past summer, a friend, a trainer and I went to Germany and the Netherlands with an agent to look at dressage horses. After preparing for the trip and getting through the logistics of the trip itself (visiting 20 barns to sit on 28 horses) came the fun part: What happened after I found the horse I wanted. Making […]
Ema Klugman was 23 and her partner Bendigo was 19 when they tackled their first five-star at the 2021 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. Klugman, who caught the horse bug abroad and got serious about it after moving to the United States, thanks largely to the Seneca Valley Pony Club (Maryland), found Bendigo with her […]
This past summer, a friend, a trainer and I went to Germany and the Netherlands, assisted by a European agent, to look at dressage horses. I wrote previously about how I came to my decision to horse-shop overseas, and the preparations and planning I made prior to the trip. What follows is my experience: putting […]
As a little girl, objects in motion scared Vivian Palmer, particularly carousel horses. No merry association came from the merry-go-round, as the dual circling and vertical movement of the equine replicas worked little Palmer into tears. “She didn’t quite understand where her body was in space,” her mother Laura Palmer said of Vivian, who was […]
This past summer, I spent a week in Europe—specifically, the Netherlands and Germany—shopping with an agent for a horse. In four and a half days we visited 20 barns, and I rode 28 horses. I was able to find the perfect horse for me with very little hassle and within my budget. In the ensuing […]
As I listen to Tamie Smith reflect on her year, I begin to see that having our conversation here, at a picnic table beside her barn, has made Smith a bit of a sitting duck. In the few hours I talk with her at Next Level Eventing in Temecula, California, a swirl of activity tugs […]
