When it’s time to buy a horse, where do you turn? Does your trainer hobnob with horse professionals on your behalf? Do you go to the track in search of a ready-to-retire race horse to retrain? Pop on a plane to horse hunt in Holland? Pore through posters pinned to porta-potties at the horse show? […]
Six months after the U.S. Eventing Association announced that it would be recognizing the starter level for the 2024 show season, USEA, in conjunction with Equestrian Events Inc. and Mary Fike, announced Thursday that starter level will be included at this year’s USEA American Eventing Championships, to be held Aug. 27-Sept. 1 in Lexington, Kentucky. […]
The United States is set to host 28 international dressage competitions and championships this year, the most of any nation. The schedule features three times as many CDI4*s as 2023, including the first CDI4* at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), and the return of CDIs to Del Mar, California. But the large number of competitions doesn’t […]
Nurse practitioner Jessica Howington made headlines in 2021 when she and her own Dutch Warmblood mare Cavalia (Sir Donnerhall—Pearllia, I.P.S. Gribaldi) were named to the U.S. Olympic dressage team short list in their first year at Grand Prix. With the mare, Howington, Ocala, Florida, got plenty of experience in the CDI ring, including a career high score […]
The last weeks of November 2022 were hard on the Barbash family of Andover, Connecticut—mom Laura, dad Adam, and their young son Atticus. First, their family horse Gracie was hospitalized for a presumed choke that turned out to be a gastric impaction; she died of related complications a few days after Thanksgiving. With Gracie gone, […]
If you’ve been horse crazy since childhood, chances are you had at least one Breyer. Maybe you were lucky enough to have a wooden stable full of them. Perhaps they sat on shelves, pristine in their boxes, or perhaps they were played with regularly, covered in marker from an unruly little brother, broken legs reattached […]
We’ve all been reading about the sales of international Grand Prix horses to new riders lately because, in order to qualify for an Olympics under Fédération Equestre International rules, a horse has to have at least one owner of the same nationality as its rider by Jan. 15 of the Games year. That deadline was […]
British Olympic champion Ben Maher returned to the Winter Equestrian Festival to win the first “Saturday Night Lights” of the season, a year after a fall at the beginning of WEF 2023 sidelined him for the season with a shoulder injury. The current FEI World No. 2 returned to Wellington, Florida, better than ever aboard […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation named McLain Ward as the 2023 international equestrian of the year and John French as the 2023 national equestrian of the year on Sunday at the 2023 Pegasus Awards Dinner at the USEF Annual Meeting, held in Louisville, Kentucky. Ward and French were nominated as Equestrians of Honor and selected by […]
Are you sick of talking about or hearing about social license to operate? If your answer is yes, the U.S. Equestrian Federation Annual Meeting, held. Jan. 12-14 in Louisville, Kentucky, was here to reply with a gentle but certain, “Too bad.” The concept of social license to operate—the idea that an activity needs to have […]
When it’s time to buy a horse, where do you turn? Does your trainer hobnob with horse professionals on your behalf? Do you go to the track in search of a ready-to-retire race horse to retrain? Pop on a plane to horse hunt in Holland? Pore through posters pinned to porta-potties at the horse show? […]
Six months after the U.S. Eventing Association announced that it would be recognizing the starter level for the 2024 show season, USEA, in conjunction with Equestrian Events Inc. and Mary Fike, announced Thursday that starter level will be included at this year’s USEA American Eventing Championships, to be held Aug. 27-Sept. 1 in Lexington, Kentucky. […]
The United States is set to host 28 international dressage competitions and championships this year, the most of any nation. The schedule features three times as many CDI4*s as 2023, including the first CDI4* at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), and the return of CDIs to Del Mar, California. But the large number of competitions doesn’t […]
Nurse practitioner Jessica Howington made headlines in 2021 when she and her own Dutch Warmblood mare Cavalia (Sir Donnerhall—Pearllia, I.P.S. Gribaldi) were named to the U.S. Olympic dressage team short list in their first year at Grand Prix. With the mare, Howington, Ocala, Florida, got plenty of experience in the CDI ring, including a career high score […]
The last weeks of November 2022 were hard on the Barbash family of Andover, Connecticut—mom Laura, dad Adam, and their young son Atticus. First, their family horse Gracie was hospitalized for a presumed choke that turned out to be a gastric impaction; she died of related complications a few days after Thanksgiving. With Gracie gone, […]
If you’ve been horse crazy since childhood, chances are you had at least one Breyer. Maybe you were lucky enough to have a wooden stable full of them. Perhaps they sat on shelves, pristine in their boxes, or perhaps they were played with regularly, covered in marker from an unruly little brother, broken legs reattached […]
We’ve all been reading about the sales of international Grand Prix horses to new riders lately because, in order to qualify for an Olympics under Fédération Equestre International rules, a horse has to have at least one owner of the same nationality as its rider by Jan. 15 of the Games year. That deadline was […]
British Olympic champion Ben Maher returned to the Winter Equestrian Festival to win the first “Saturday Night Lights” of the season, a year after a fall at the beginning of WEF 2023 sidelined him for the season with a shoulder injury. The current FEI World No. 2 returned to Wellington, Florida, better than ever aboard […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation named McLain Ward as the 2023 international equestrian of the year and John French as the 2023 national equestrian of the year on Sunday at the 2023 Pegasus Awards Dinner at the USEF Annual Meeting, held in Louisville, Kentucky. Ward and French were nominated as Equestrians of Honor and selected by […]
Are you sick of talking about or hearing about social license to operate? If your answer is yes, the U.S. Equestrian Federation Annual Meeting, held. Jan. 12-14 in Louisville, Kentucky, was here to reply with a gentle but certain, “Too bad.” The concept of social license to operate—the idea that an activity needs to have […]
