In a thrilling conclusion Saturday night to open jumper competition at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, McLain Ward rode First Lady to the win in the $100,000 Grand Prix de Penn National for the second year in a row. Ward and the 10-year-old Oldenburg mare (Don Diarado—Love Dream, Lordanos) owned by Robin Parsky, were one […]
Thirty-three rule change proposals—six fewer than last year—are up for discussion during the upcoming U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Annual Meeting, which takes place Dec. 4-7 in Concord, North Carolina. Rule change proposals that are approved by the USHJA board of directors will go to the U.S. Equestrian Federation, where they must be voted on by […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 22 Fifty-eight years. That’s how long it’s been since an Irish rider last stood atop the podium at a five-star competition. But that nearly six-decade drought ended Sunday when Austin O’Connor and Colorado Blue won the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill. Earlier this year, when the pair earned a podium spot at […]
Oct. 22—Elkton, Md. Sixteen horses presented in the final horse inspection at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, and 14 will show jump this afternoon at 2 p.m. Piggy March’s mount Brookfield Cavalier Cruise, who was fifth after cross-country, was sent to the hold box. She elected not to re-present. Erin Kanara’s Campground, […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 21 All week Oliver Townend has been thinking about what’s ahead for Cooley Rosalent. He has high hopes for the young mare’s future, so he set out on the cross-country at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill with a specific plan in mind. “My horse is 9 years old, so my […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 20 As Oliver Townend rode through his warm-up with Cooley Rosalent at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, he felt like he was a bit behind schedule. He hadn’t gotten the mare completely relaxed before heading up the ramp to the main arena, but once she was on her way down […]
Kelly Tropin Whitridge and her Württemberger gelding Chablis are certainly no underdogs. The pair, who have been partnered for nine years, have won the amateur-owner hunter, 18-35, division championship at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg for four of those years, did it again this year, clinching their third grand amateur-owner hunter championship on […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 20 For the past two years, course designer Ian Stark has heard about how it was too easy for riders to make time at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill. In 2021, 11 of 42 made the time, and last year 13 of 24 finished double clear. So this year Stark […]
Alison O’Dwyer has been in this spot three times before—winning the championship in the dressage division at the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover, and then holding her breath to see which of the 10 division winners will be named the Makeover Champion. At this year’s competition, held Oct. 11-14 at the Kentucky Horse Park in […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 19 When you are a British eventer with two premier five-star events in your backyard, putting a horse on a plane to come to the Mars Maryland 5 Star is quite a commitment, but when Piggy March looked at what she wanted next for Brookfield Cavalier Cruise, a trip across the Atlantic seemed […]
In a thrilling conclusion Saturday night to open jumper competition at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, McLain Ward rode First Lady to the win in the $100,000 Grand Prix de Penn National for the second year in a row. Ward and the 10-year-old Oldenburg mare (Don Diarado—Love Dream, Lordanos) owned by Robin Parsky, were one […]
Thirty-three rule change proposals—six fewer than last year—are up for discussion during the upcoming U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Annual Meeting, which takes place Dec. 4-7 in Concord, North Carolina. Rule change proposals that are approved by the USHJA board of directors will go to the U.S. Equestrian Federation, where they must be voted on by […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 22 Fifty-eight years. That’s how long it’s been since an Irish rider last stood atop the podium at a five-star competition. But that nearly six-decade drought ended Sunday when Austin O’Connor and Colorado Blue won the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill. Earlier this year, when the pair earned a podium spot at […]
Oct. 22—Elkton, Md. Sixteen horses presented in the final horse inspection at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, and 14 will show jump this afternoon at 2 p.m. Piggy March’s mount Brookfield Cavalier Cruise, who was fifth after cross-country, was sent to the hold box. She elected not to re-present. Erin Kanara’s Campground, […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 21 All week Oliver Townend has been thinking about what’s ahead for Cooley Rosalent. He has high hopes for the young mare’s future, so he set out on the cross-country at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill with a specific plan in mind. “My horse is 9 years old, so my […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 20 As Oliver Townend rode through his warm-up with Cooley Rosalent at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, he felt like he was a bit behind schedule. He hadn’t gotten the mare completely relaxed before heading up the ramp to the main arena, but once she was on her way down […]
Kelly Tropin Whitridge and her Württemberger gelding Chablis are certainly no underdogs. The pair, who have been partnered for nine years, have won the amateur-owner hunter, 18-35, division championship at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg for four of those years, did it again this year, clinching their third grand amateur-owner hunter championship on […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 20 For the past two years, course designer Ian Stark has heard about how it was too easy for riders to make time at the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill. In 2021, 11 of 42 made the time, and last year 13 of 24 finished double clear. So this year Stark […]
Alison O’Dwyer has been in this spot three times before—winning the championship in the dressage division at the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover, and then holding her breath to see which of the 10 division winners will be named the Makeover Champion. At this year’s competition, held Oct. 11-14 at the Kentucky Horse Park in […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 19 When you are a British eventer with two premier five-star events in your backyard, putting a horse on a plane to come to the Mars Maryland 5 Star is quite a commitment, but when Piggy March looked at what she wanted next for Brookfield Cavalier Cruise, a trip across the Atlantic seemed […]
