The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association on Wednesday announces the 16 athletes and four stable managers selected to participate in the 13th annual MZ Farms/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program National Training Session. This year’s session will be held Nov. 9-12 at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio, led by Olympic show jumper Peter Wylde and stable management expert […]
Muscle pain and impaired performance that occurs during or after exercise is known as exertional myopathy and more colloquially as tying-up. In the context of athletic horses, any myopathy has the potential to derail performance, either temporarily or permanently. Some myopathies are so severe that, when left unaddressed, horses are unable to be used for […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the opening of the recruitment process for the U.S. dressage technical advisor position. Previous technical advisor Debbie McDonald, who first assumed the role in 2018 and was reinstated in February, announced in July that she would step down Aug. 1. She discussed her reasons with the Chronicle later that […]
In the early 1980s, Kim Walnes and her legendary eventer, The Gray Goose, trained in the Virginia countryside in preparation for the big courses at Kentucky and Luhmühlen, Germany. Forty years later, Walnes watched a new gray gelding and rider crest the same rolling hills. Skyeler Voss and her four-star eventing partner Argyle have been […]
When Josie Drummond sat down with her mom and trainer last season to discuss her 2023 goals, she offered an unexpected idea: Why not aim for USEF Pony Finals? While that may not seem too outlandish a suggestion from a young rider who has spent five years developing her pony, Drummond and her partner AM […]
Six years after his first win in the class, Ladriano Z repeated the feat in the $425,000 Longines Hampton Classic CSI5* Grand Prix, in the process making Daniel Bluman among the winningest riders of the Hampton Classic Horse Show’s marquee class. Only two horse-and-rider combinations made it to the jump-off Sunday in Bridgehampton, New York: […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Monday announced the athletes selected to represent the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team for the BMO Nations Cup at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’, to be held Sept. 6-10 in Calgary, Alberta. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland. The following athletes have been named to the NetJets U.S. Jumping […]
The leaves are falling, the temperatures are dropping – it’s time to prepare for the chilly days and start the new season full of sportiness and elegance. The autumn-winter collection 2023 by Schockemöhle Sports invites you to dive into the wonderful world of fashion combined with functionality. From sophisticated quilted jackets to warming winter riding […]
One second. That’s the time represented by 0.4 penalties in eventing, and that blink of an eye is the margin by which Liz Halliday and Miks Master C, the horse who finished third in his five-star debut in Kentucky earlier this year and with whom she recently was named to the U.S. Eventing Team for […]
Amie Loring almost didn’t make the trek from Oxford, Connecticut, to Lexington, Kentucky, to contest the USEA Beginner Novice Horse Championship with Excel Star Cast Away. The last time Loring competed at the USEA American Eventing Championships, she crashed and didn’t complete. “I honestly wasn’t going to come [this time] because I always thought you […]