The next generation of U.S. dressage athletes finished the week out strong at the 2024 Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic, though this year there were no scores to show for it. Unlike in previous years, the final day of the clinic, held Jan. 3-7 at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival grounds in Wellington, Florida, offered participants […]
Position is critical to good jumper riding, but a rider must not only look the part in the saddle, they must be effective and responsive to their horse. That was five-time Olympian Anne Kursinski’s message to 11 young riders during the first mounted session of the 2024 USEF Horsemastership Training Series, held Jan. 4-7 in […]
Wellington, Fla.—Jan. 4 Twenty of the United States’ top young athletes have gathered at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival show grounds to participate in the 2024 Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week, which started Thursday with a demonstration ride by host Dover and lessons for the participating riders. Alongside access to a wide variety of lectures on topics […]
Was I destined to own a farm? No. I was just too stubborn to let my dream float away. Hubs and I have purchased a total of four homes together. The ink wasn’t even dry on the closing documents for the last one when I started compulsively Zillowing horse properties on the market. Me: “Ooh, […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Jan. 4 announced a restructuring of its dressage coaching program. As part of that, Christine Traurig, who has worked within the program for nearly 10 years, will move into the development coach role, taking over from current development coach, Charlotte Bredahl, who steps down April 1. Traurig will also serve […]
Watching Boyd Martin gallop one of his five-star Thoroughbreds up to a massive cross country fence is breathtaking. Watching the three-time Olympian skillfully take a green off-the-track Thoroughbred from flatwork to jumping a course is a whole different lesson in horsemanship. If you are among the tens of thousands of people who follow Martin on […]
German eventer Julia Krajewski, who became the first woman to win Olympic individual eventing gold at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, has announced the retirement of her partner in that historic performance. Amande De B’Neville, a 14-year-old Selle Français mare (Oscar Des Fontaines—Perle De B’Neville, Elan De La Cour) that Krajewski co-owns with Bernd […]
Growing up in rural Maine, Jen Colby was “always the kid who wanted the pony, but never the kid who had the pony.” Back then, she managed to learn just enough not fall off on trail rides through a few lessons taken at a backyard barn. But in the intervening years, Colby’s skills in the […]
In the more than three decades since Phyllis Cervelli stepped into her role as head coach of Boston University’s equestrian team, she’s given a lot of advice. Each year, her athlete roster ranges from walk-trot beginners to horse show veterans—all of whom must be prepared to ride an unfamiliar horse in Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association […]
Endel Ots is well known in the U.S. dressage community as a coach and producer of young horses. He’s earned several national titles and a spot on the 2019 Pan American Games (Peru) dressage team that was lost to a trailering accident, trained successful riders at all levels, but he’s never competed at the CDI […]
The next generation of U.S. dressage athletes finished the week out strong at the 2024 Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic, though this year there were no scores to show for it. Unlike in previous years, the final day of the clinic, held Jan. 3-7 at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival grounds in Wellington, Florida, offered participants […]
Position is critical to good jumper riding, but a rider must not only look the part in the saddle, they must be effective and responsive to their horse. That was five-time Olympian Anne Kursinski’s message to 11 young riders during the first mounted session of the 2024 USEF Horsemastership Training Series, held Jan. 4-7 in […]
Wellington, Fla.—Jan. 4 Twenty of the United States’ top young athletes have gathered at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival show grounds to participate in the 2024 Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week, which started Thursday with a demonstration ride by host Dover and lessons for the participating riders. Alongside access to a wide variety of lectures on topics […]
Was I destined to own a farm? No. I was just too stubborn to let my dream float away. Hubs and I have purchased a total of four homes together. The ink wasn’t even dry on the closing documents for the last one when I started compulsively Zillowing horse properties on the market. Me: “Ooh, […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Jan. 4 announced a restructuring of its dressage coaching program. As part of that, Christine Traurig, who has worked within the program for nearly 10 years, will move into the development coach role, taking over from current development coach, Charlotte Bredahl, who steps down April 1. Traurig will also serve […]
Watching Boyd Martin gallop one of his five-star Thoroughbreds up to a massive cross country fence is breathtaking. Watching the three-time Olympian skillfully take a green off-the-track Thoroughbred from flatwork to jumping a course is a whole different lesson in horsemanship. If you are among the tens of thousands of people who follow Martin on […]
German eventer Julia Krajewski, who became the first woman to win Olympic individual eventing gold at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, has announced the retirement of her partner in that historic performance. Amande De B’Neville, a 14-year-old Selle Français mare (Oscar Des Fontaines—Perle De B’Neville, Elan De La Cour) that Krajewski co-owns with Bernd […]
Growing up in rural Maine, Jen Colby was “always the kid who wanted the pony, but never the kid who had the pony.” Back then, she managed to learn just enough not fall off on trail rides through a few lessons taken at a backyard barn. But in the intervening years, Colby’s skills in the […]
In the more than three decades since Phyllis Cervelli stepped into her role as head coach of Boston University’s equestrian team, she’s given a lot of advice. Each year, her athlete roster ranges from walk-trot beginners to horse show veterans—all of whom must be prepared to ride an unfamiliar horse in Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association […]
Endel Ots is well known in the U.S. dressage community as a coach and producer of young horses. He’s earned several national titles and a spot on the 2019 Pan American Games (Peru) dressage team that was lost to a trailering accident, trained successful riders at all levels, but he’s never competed at the CDI […]
