Small Love’s kind, gentle, brown eyes are the first thing you notice in her presence. It’s easy to tell that she is loved and appreciated by her team; if someone walks into her stall, they’re greeted with a sniff and a nudge of her nose. She is inquisitive, and if her rider and owner Augusta […]
The 140th edition of the National Horse Show is underway and continues through Nov. 5 at the Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Arena. The competition started Oct. 25 with five days of adult and age-group equitation as well as the Hamel Foundation National Horse Show 3’3″ National Championship. On Tuesday, Oct. 31 the hunter and jumper divisions begin. The […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 29 When you’ve won a grand pony hunter championship at a major horse show, there’s only one thing to do the next year: win it again. That’s just what Brixton and Vivian Golden did, repeating last year’s large pony hunter championship and the grand title at the Washington International for Betsee Parker […]
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to add comments from U.S. Chef d’equipe Bobby Costello. Despite holding all three individual podium spots through dressage and cross-country and having a 19-point lead heading into show jumping, course designer Marina Azevedo’s track proved to be the undoing of the U.S. eventing team today, Oct. 29, at […]
Seven riders made it to the jump-off for the $450,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Washington CSI5*-W, held Oct. 28 at the Washington International Horse Show in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. But it was the last to go, Katie Dinan aboard Brego R’n B, who turned in the blazing fast time to earn top honors. Watch […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 28 The Washington International has always been a special horse show for Maddie Tosh. Two years ago Tosh won the WIHS Pony Equitation Finals, and earlier this week she rode Twain to a junior hunter title. She finished up this year’s edition of the horse show in style, winning the WIHS Equitation […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 27 Ariana Marnell was wiping away tears as she led Babylon to center ring at the Washington International to accept the grand junior hunter championship, and it’s easy to understand why. A few hours earlier she had decided to forgo the National Horse Show (Kentucky) with that horse and Ocean Road and […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Perrigo U.S. Para Dressage Team at the CPEDI3* being held this weekend at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Michel Assouline. The following combinations are listed in alphabetical order: • […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 26 At the end of October plenty of people take the opportunity to put on a costume, and grand prix riders are no exception. At the Washington International Horse Show, 19 riders put on their scariest—or silliest—outfits, and grooms got in on the fun decorating their mounts for the annual costume class. […]
Spend any time reading about or discussing the levels of eventing—and how to ensure the safe upward progress of riders and horses through them—and you’ll be reminded that when the U.S. Eventing Association came into existence in 1959 (then as the U.S. Combined Training Association), preliminary was the entry level into the sport. Three-quarters of […]
Small Love’s kind, gentle, brown eyes are the first thing you notice in her presence. It’s easy to tell that she is loved and appreciated by her team; if someone walks into her stall, they’re greeted with a sniff and a nudge of her nose. She is inquisitive, and if her rider and owner Augusta […]
The 140th edition of the National Horse Show is underway and continues through Nov. 5 at the Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Arena. The competition started Oct. 25 with five days of adult and age-group equitation as well as the Hamel Foundation National Horse Show 3’3″ National Championship. On Tuesday, Oct. 31 the hunter and jumper divisions begin. The […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 29 When you’ve won a grand pony hunter championship at a major horse show, there’s only one thing to do the next year: win it again. That’s just what Brixton and Vivian Golden did, repeating last year’s large pony hunter championship and the grand title at the Washington International for Betsee Parker […]
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to add comments from U.S. Chef d’equipe Bobby Costello. Despite holding all three individual podium spots through dressage and cross-country and having a 19-point lead heading into show jumping, course designer Marina Azevedo’s track proved to be the undoing of the U.S. eventing team today, Oct. 29, at […]
Seven riders made it to the jump-off for the $450,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Washington CSI5*-W, held Oct. 28 at the Washington International Horse Show in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. But it was the last to go, Katie Dinan aboard Brego R’n B, who turned in the blazing fast time to earn top honors. Watch […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 28 The Washington International has always been a special horse show for Maddie Tosh. Two years ago Tosh won the WIHS Pony Equitation Finals, and earlier this week she rode Twain to a junior hunter title. She finished up this year’s edition of the horse show in style, winning the WIHS Equitation […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 27 Ariana Marnell was wiping away tears as she led Babylon to center ring at the Washington International to accept the grand junior hunter championship, and it’s easy to understand why. A few hours earlier she had decided to forgo the National Horse Show (Kentucky) with that horse and Ocean Road and […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Perrigo U.S. Para Dressage Team at the CPEDI3* being held this weekend at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Michel Assouline. The following combinations are listed in alphabetical order: • […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 26 At the end of October plenty of people take the opportunity to put on a costume, and grand prix riders are no exception. At the Washington International Horse Show, 19 riders put on their scariest—or silliest—outfits, and grooms got in on the fun decorating their mounts for the annual costume class. […]
Spend any time reading about or discussing the levels of eventing—and how to ensure the safe upward progress of riders and horses through them—and you’ll be reminded that when the U.S. Eventing Association came into existence in 1959 (then as the U.S. Combined Training Association), preliminary was the entry level into the sport. Three-quarters of […]
