Let’s Divide Dressage Classes By Experience Instead Of Occupation

One of my favorite things about dressage is that there are so many ways to play. Schooling shows, recognized shows, little local ones, big hairy international ones, everything in between. There’s room in our sport for the person with the day job who are weekend warriors with their rescue pony, and there’s room in our […]

McCutcheon Stays Consistent To Win ASPCA Maclay Final

Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 5 Carlee McCutcheon found herself in a familiar position going into the second round at this year’s ASPCA Maclay Final. Last year, like today, she held the lead for a large portion of the day. Last year however, she dropped into second after the second round, and then a couple of small errors […]

2023 ASPCA Maclay Finals Commentary

Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 5 We’re here in Lexington, Kentucky, for the ASPCA Maclay Final where 228 of the country’s top junior riders aspire to win one of the most elusive equitation titles. We’ll try and post every 10 riders or so, with updates on how the course is riding, who has done well, who hasn’t, etc. […]

What You Need To Know: 2023 ASPCA Maclay Finals

The 2023 ASPCA Maclay Fiunals kicks off this morning, with the first competitor stepping foot in the ring at 7 a.m. It is estimated that the final round will start at 6:15 p.m.  Rachel Kennedy, Wendy Peralta, Tamara Provost and Danny Robertshaw are judging the class of 228 competitors. Bobby Murphy and Kevin Holowack designed […]

Watch Why They Won: Sweetnam Cruises To World Cup Victory With James Kann Cruz

Shane Sweetnam got his long-awaited first Longines FEI Jumping World Cup victory Saturday night during the National Horse Show (Kentucky), sweeping to the top of an 11-horse jump-off with James Kann Cruz. Sweetnam, who went fourth in the jump-off for the $226,000 Longines FEI World Cup Jumping Lexington, stopped the clocks in a time of […]

Updated: Swani Closes Out Her Indoor Season With A National Horse Show Championship

Correction: Due to an error in the National Horse Show’s results, Clara Propp and Ashton were listed as reserve champions in the small junior hunter, 15 and under, division. The reserve champion is actually Madeline Brooks and Captain Jack. Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 3 Winning at the National Horse Show has special meaning to Raina Swani. She […]

Brazil Nabs Individual Gold, US Takes Silver And Bronze In Pan Am Final

Two days after winning team gold at the Pan American Games in Chile, U.S. riders completed their medal set by taking silver and bronze in the individual competition. Brazil’s Stephan de Freitas Barcha won gold. Kent Farrington was the U.S. squad’s breakout star in Friday’s competition, climbing from ninth place going into the day to […]

Ward, Kraut Lead The Hunt For Pan Am Individual Gold

All three U.S. horses contesting today’s Pan American Games individual show jumping final sailed through Thursday’s horse inspection and are on the start list to jump today in Quillota, Chile. With one gold medal already earned for the United States in Wednesday’s team finals, McLain Ward leads the individual field with Beechwood Stables’ 14-year-old German […]

Behind The Photo: A Pony Walks Into A Library

“A pony walks into a library … ” Is it the foundation of a joke in need of a punch line? The start of a melatonin-induced dream? Or a captivating scene from the National Sporting Library & Museum’s Founders’ Room in Middleburg, Virginia? The latter, as a pony spent several hours a day standing in […]

Waverly And Rohrbaugh Bear Win Championship In Their First National

Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 1 Around the time Meghan Rohrbaugh Bear was receiving her 3’3″ amateur-owner hunter, 36 and over, championship at the National Horse Show in Kentucky, she initially was supposed to be on a plane back to Pennsylvania to prepare for one of her best friend’s weddings. “She’s been very gracious about it, so I’m […]