Tessa Downey topped a field of 150 riders Sunday to win the Palm Beach International Academy North American Junior Equitation Championship, the equitation finale at the Capital Challenge Horse Show in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. After a callback for the top 20 and a work-off for the top two, the 18-year-old from Houston emerged victorious, while […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association has opened the comment period for members to weigh in on rule change proposals the organization is considering for the 2025 competition year. Member comments are an important part of the rule change proposal process, and USHJA encourages their feedback. Members can provide input on the proposals online here through Oct. 31, but […]
Near the end of 2009, 34-year-old Dinette Neuteboom needed a change. A college professor and professional trainer, she quit her teaching and riding jobs to travel the world, leaving her friends and family behind in the Netherlands. Neuteboom had no return date planned; she was ready for an adventure to wherever life took her. “Horses […]
Ben Ebeling won the first qualifier for the 2024 FEI Dressage World Cup Final (Saudi Arabia) when he an Indeed topped the FEI World Cup Grand Prix freestyle under the lights Saturday night at Dressage at Devon (Pennsylvania). Ebeling, 23, Wellington, Florida, rode Indeed, owned by Vantage Equestrian Group II, LLC, to a winning score […]
Team Germany posted a convincing victory Sunday on the last day of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final 2023 at the Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, with their faultless score line giving them a two-fence advantage over their nearest rivals from France, Belgium and Brazil, who filled the next three placings. But it […]
On Friday, Sept. 29, Merck Animal Health announced it is voluntarily recalling four additional batches of Banamine/Banamine-S (flunixin meglumine injection) 50 mg/mL in the United States, used for injection in horses, cattle and swine due to the presence of particulate matter. These batches are in addition to the three batches of Banamine/Banamine S that Merck […]
Update: Shortly after this story was published, Robyn Cuffey died Oct. 10 of pancreatic cancer. She was 69. On a sunny September afternoon, several dozen eager spectators lined the rail at the State of Maine Dressage Association’s final show of the season. The first strains of Chubby Checker’s iconic hit “Pony Time” began to play, and […]
Ariel Grald had a breakout year in 2022. She and Leamore Master Plan finished 15th at her first Badminton CCI5*-L (England), and they were named to Grald’s first championship squad, finishing 11th as an individual at the FEI Eventing World Championship (Italy), also with “Simon.” They were one of just five combinations to finish on […]
It is hard to miss Audrina McCall and her leased mount, New Moon, when they are in the small pony hunter ring: Not only is “Willie” a blue roan with a big white blaze and pink muzzle, he is missing his right eye. But if you were to also notice the pair heading down centerline […]
When New Zealand show jumper Uma O’Neill and Clockwise Of Greenhill Z won the CSI3* tbird Grand Prix (British Columbia) last week, their photo made headlines for unexpected reasons. The pair have a longstanding partnership that was put to the test when, at the second-to-last fence in the first round, “Clockwise’s” bridle slipped off. Thanks […]
Tessa Downey topped a field of 150 riders Sunday to win the Palm Beach International Academy North American Junior Equitation Championship, the equitation finale at the Capital Challenge Horse Show in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. After a callback for the top 20 and a work-off for the top two, the 18-year-old from Houston emerged victorious, while […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association has opened the comment period for members to weigh in on rule change proposals the organization is considering for the 2025 competition year. Member comments are an important part of the rule change proposal process, and USHJA encourages their feedback. Members can provide input on the proposals online here through Oct. 31, but […]
Near the end of 2009, 34-year-old Dinette Neuteboom needed a change. A college professor and professional trainer, she quit her teaching and riding jobs to travel the world, leaving her friends and family behind in the Netherlands. Neuteboom had no return date planned; she was ready for an adventure to wherever life took her. “Horses […]
Ben Ebeling won the first qualifier for the 2024 FEI Dressage World Cup Final (Saudi Arabia) when he an Indeed topped the FEI World Cup Grand Prix freestyle under the lights Saturday night at Dressage at Devon (Pennsylvania). Ebeling, 23, Wellington, Florida, rode Indeed, owned by Vantage Equestrian Group II, LLC, to a winning score […]
Team Germany posted a convincing victory Sunday on the last day of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final 2023 at the Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, with their faultless score line giving them a two-fence advantage over their nearest rivals from France, Belgium and Brazil, who filled the next three placings. But it […]
On Friday, Sept. 29, Merck Animal Health announced it is voluntarily recalling four additional batches of Banamine/Banamine-S (flunixin meglumine injection) 50 mg/mL in the United States, used for injection in horses, cattle and swine due to the presence of particulate matter. These batches are in addition to the three batches of Banamine/Banamine S that Merck […]
Update: Shortly after this story was published, Robyn Cuffey died Oct. 10 of pancreatic cancer. She was 69. On a sunny September afternoon, several dozen eager spectators lined the rail at the State of Maine Dressage Association’s final show of the season. The first strains of Chubby Checker’s iconic hit “Pony Time” began to play, and […]
Ariel Grald had a breakout year in 2022. She and Leamore Master Plan finished 15th at her first Badminton CCI5*-L (England), and they were named to Grald’s first championship squad, finishing 11th as an individual at the FEI Eventing World Championship (Italy), also with “Simon.” They were one of just five combinations to finish on […]
It is hard to miss Audrina McCall and her leased mount, New Moon, when they are in the small pony hunter ring: Not only is “Willie” a blue roan with a big white blaze and pink muzzle, he is missing his right eye. But if you were to also notice the pair heading down centerline […]
When New Zealand show jumper Uma O’Neill and Clockwise Of Greenhill Z won the CSI3* tbird Grand Prix (British Columbia) last week, their photo made headlines for unexpected reasons. The pair have a longstanding partnership that was put to the test when, at the second-to-last fence in the first round, “Clockwise’s” bridle slipped off. Thanks […]
