Ten years ago, Alexandra Krossen rode in the first ever U.S. Dressage Finals on Zulft SCF, a Dutch Warmblood gelding. When “Zulft” died unexpectedly about a year later from colic, he left his rider, Krossen, and owner, Heather Mason, devastated. Today, Krossen is thinking of Zulft as she returns to the Alltech Arena for the […]
After winning her third championship in two days at the 2023 U.S. Dressage Finals in Lexington, Kentucky, Heather Mason waited among her fellow ribboned competitors in the warm-up ring, preparing for her victory lap. She’d just landed first in the open Grand Prix championship with a 69.20% on her longtime partner, RTF Lincoln. “Heather, I’m […]
At the U.S. Dressage Finals in Lexington, Kentucky, there’s a common question bouncing around the rings and barn aisles between the volunteers and competitors: “Have you seen the checkered horse, yet?” The “checkered horse” is Benedictus WS, or “Ben,” a 9-year-old Hanoverian who made his way from Sherborn, Massachusetts with rider Fie Studnitz Andersen, who […]
Alexis Miller never thought she and her gelding Roulette, a 15-year-old Oldenburg, would make it to the 2023 U.S. Dressage Finals, being held this week in Lexington, Kentucky—in fact, there was a time not so long ago when she thought she might never be able to ride again. After a hard fall from “Chaplin” six […]
It was late spring in 2019 and Brenda Giles hadn’t left the hospital in days. Her “adrenaline junkie” husband, Bob Giles—a man who came home from Vietnam with three Purple Hearts, who had been a Maine police officer for 22 years, and who had made a name in the carriage driving world for his way […]
Growing up on her family’s horse farm in Canton, Connecticut, Emily van Gemeren became well-versed in the strange and varied ways that horses can incur expensive medical bills. So when, more than a decade ago, her veterinarian recommended an insurance agency to cover the horses owned by van Gemeren and her mother and sister, the […]
The U.S. Dressage Finals are back at the Kentucky Horse Park this week. Amateur, junior and open riders who qualified via their regional championships around the country are gathering in Lexington, Kentucky, for the national competition, which begins Thursday. From Nov. 9-12, dressage riders will have the chance to showcase their skills in classes from training […]
In a particularly horsey corner of Pennsylvania, just a mile or so away from one of the best-known equine teaching hospitals in the country, two rival gangs of veterinarians have started gathering once a year to rumble. Instead of the Jets and the Sharks, they’re the VMDs and the DVMs; instead of lab coats and […]
Mellisa Davis Warden still remembers the day in December 2015 when she first saw a photo on social media of an Arabian mare located at Kaufman Horses in Forney, Texas. Often a last stop before shipping to Mexico for slaughter, the horses at Kaufman tend to be inexpensive, a bit beat up and full of […]
Ten years ago, Alexandra Krossen rode in the first ever U.S. Dressage Finals on Zulft SCF, a Dutch Warmblood gelding. When “Zulft” died unexpectedly about a year later from colic, he left his rider, Krossen, and owner, Heather Mason, devastated. Today, Krossen is thinking of Zulft as she returns to the Alltech Arena for the […]
After winning her third championship in two days at the 2023 U.S. Dressage Finals in Lexington, Kentucky, Heather Mason waited among her fellow ribboned competitors in the warm-up ring, preparing for her victory lap. She’d just landed first in the open Grand Prix championship with a 69.20% on her longtime partner, RTF Lincoln. “Heather, I’m […]
At the U.S. Dressage Finals in Lexington, Kentucky, there’s a common question bouncing around the rings and barn aisles between the volunteers and competitors: “Have you seen the checkered horse, yet?” The “checkered horse” is Benedictus WS, or “Ben,” a 9-year-old Hanoverian who made his way from Sherborn, Massachusetts with rider Fie Studnitz Andersen, who […]
Alexis Miller never thought she and her gelding Roulette, a 15-year-old Oldenburg, would make it to the 2023 U.S. Dressage Finals, being held this week in Lexington, Kentucky—in fact, there was a time not so long ago when she thought she might never be able to ride again. After a hard fall from “Chaplin” six […]
It was late spring in 2019 and Brenda Giles hadn’t left the hospital in days. Her “adrenaline junkie” husband, Bob Giles—a man who came home from Vietnam with three Purple Hearts, who had been a Maine police officer for 22 years, and who had made a name in the carriage driving world for his way […]
Junior phenom Lillie Keenan follows up her Pessoa/USEF Medal Final with with victory in the ASPCA Maclay Final.
Growing up on her family’s horse farm in Canton, Connecticut, Emily van Gemeren became well-versed in the strange and varied ways that horses can incur expensive medical bills. So when, more than a decade ago, her veterinarian recommended an insurance agency to cover the horses owned by van Gemeren and her mother and sister, the […]
The U.S. Dressage Finals are back at the Kentucky Horse Park this week. Amateur, junior and open riders who qualified via their regional championships around the country are gathering in Lexington, Kentucky, for the national competition, which begins Thursday. From Nov. 9-12, dressage riders will have the chance to showcase their skills in classes from training […]
In a particularly horsey corner of Pennsylvania, just a mile or so away from one of the best-known equine teaching hospitals in the country, two rival gangs of veterinarians have started gathering once a year to rumble. Instead of the Jets and the Sharks, they’re the VMDs and the DVMs; instead of lab coats and […]
Mellisa Davis Warden still remembers the day in December 2015 when she first saw a photo on social media of an Arabian mare located at Kaufman Horses in Forney, Texas. Often a last stop before shipping to Mexico for slaughter, the horses at Kaufman tend to be inexpensive, a bit beat up and full of […]
