The 2023 Pan American Games begin Friday, Oct. 20, with opening ceremonies in Santiago, Chile. The equestrian portion of the games, however, doesn’t start until Sunday, Oct. 22, with the first day of dressage. Eventing goes next, running Oct. 27-29. The U.S. has already qualified teams for the 2024 Paris Olympics in both sports, but […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 18 Twenty-six horses were presented in the first horse inspection for the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, and all 26 were accepted. Only one horse was sent to the hold box, Erin Kanara’s Campground, but the 16-year-old Thoroughbred passed upon re-inspection. Tamie Smith and Liz Halliday-Sharp, who are part of the […]
What does it take to get to the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill as a competitor? Think about it. It takes months of honing the skills, building the fitness required and putting together all the little pieces, with no guarantee of success. It takes faith in your partner and yourself to put it […]
Correction: Due to an error in point calculations, the Pennsylvania National Horse Show on Wednesday changed the winner of the leading hunter rider title to Geoffrey Hesslink. Under show rules, points from a flat class originally used to determine Nick Haness as the leading rider were deducted because the class did not have enough entries. […]
Monica Spencer remembers the first time she saw Artist in her home country of New Zealand. “I was at a show, and I spotted him from the other side of the warm-up,” said Spencer of the moment she saw the 4-year-old Thoroughbred gelding being ridden by his then-owner Polly McDonald. “I trotted over to Polly […]
Cooler weather is in the air, which means it’s time for the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, returning this week to Elkton, Maryland, for its third running. While inaugural winner Boyd Martin is bringing Contessa this year, defending champion New Zealand’s Tim Price had to withdraw his mount Falco after the horse had […]
Following two rounds of jumping and one final test Sunday at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, a field of 206 entries was narrowed down to one 2023 Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final winner: Carlee McCutcheon, 17, of Aubrey, Texas, aboard Chacco Star. Second place went to Medal Final first-timer Noah Nelson aboard Cassini, and […]
Claus 63 is a handsome horse. And he knows it. Dressed in an orange stable rug, complete with fuzzy collar—an outfit the staff at Sharon White’s Last Frontier Farm have jokingly deemed his “smoking jacket”—the bay gelding eats up the attention that comes with participating in the Chronicle’s Behind The Stall Door series. After all, […]
Harrisburg, Pa.—Oct. 15 Carlee McCutcheon didn’t have the start to the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final that she was looking for. Sure, she put in a lovely course, but a few minor errors meant she lay 12th after the first round. “It wasn’t my best first round, but I trust [Chacco Star]—he’s the best […]
We’re here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final, where 208 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. […]
The 2023 Pan American Games begin Friday, Oct. 20, with opening ceremonies in Santiago, Chile. The equestrian portion of the games, however, doesn’t start until Sunday, Oct. 22, with the first day of dressage. Eventing goes next, running Oct. 27-29. The U.S. has already qualified teams for the 2024 Paris Olympics in both sports, but […]
Elkton, Md.—Oct. 18 Twenty-six horses were presented in the first horse inspection for the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, and all 26 were accepted. Only one horse was sent to the hold box, Erin Kanara’s Campground, but the 16-year-old Thoroughbred passed upon re-inspection. Tamie Smith and Liz Halliday-Sharp, who are part of the […]
What does it take to get to the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill as a competitor? Think about it. It takes months of honing the skills, building the fitness required and putting together all the little pieces, with no guarantee of success. It takes faith in your partner and yourself to put it […]
Correction: Due to an error in point calculations, the Pennsylvania National Horse Show on Wednesday changed the winner of the leading hunter rider title to Geoffrey Hesslink. Under show rules, points from a flat class originally used to determine Nick Haness as the leading rider were deducted because the class did not have enough entries. […]
Monica Spencer remembers the first time she saw Artist in her home country of New Zealand. “I was at a show, and I spotted him from the other side of the warm-up,” said Spencer of the moment she saw the 4-year-old Thoroughbred gelding being ridden by his then-owner Polly McDonald. “I trotted over to Polly […]
Cooler weather is in the air, which means it’s time for the Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, returning this week to Elkton, Maryland, for its third running. While inaugural winner Boyd Martin is bringing Contessa this year, defending champion New Zealand’s Tim Price had to withdraw his mount Falco after the horse had […]
Following two rounds of jumping and one final test Sunday at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, a field of 206 entries was narrowed down to one 2023 Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final winner: Carlee McCutcheon, 17, of Aubrey, Texas, aboard Chacco Star. Second place went to Medal Final first-timer Noah Nelson aboard Cassini, and […]
Claus 63 is a handsome horse. And he knows it. Dressed in an orange stable rug, complete with fuzzy collar—an outfit the staff at Sharon White’s Last Frontier Farm have jokingly deemed his “smoking jacket”—the bay gelding eats up the attention that comes with participating in the Chronicle’s Behind The Stall Door series. After all, […]
Harrisburg, Pa.—Oct. 15 Carlee McCutcheon didn’t have the start to the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final that she was looking for. Sure, she put in a lovely course, but a few minor errors meant she lay 12th after the first round. “It wasn’t my best first round, but I trust [Chacco Star]—he’s the best […]
We’re here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final, where 208 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. […]
