Most of the time, if you are on your horse and the bridle is not, something has gone wrong. But for veteran endurance rider Jeremy Reynolds, who on July 29 won the one-day, 100-mile Western States Trail Ride, popularly known as the Tevis Cup, for the fifth time in his career aboard his Arabian mare […]
Capturing hearts and headlines alike, Jessica Springsteen rocketed to victory in the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of London CSI5* with Don Juan Van De Donkhoeve on Sunday. Olivier Philippaerts of Belgium had to settle for second place for the second consecutive week on H&M Miro. Picking up his 24th LGCT Grand Prix podium […]
The Dressage Foundation announced Aug. 15 that Lindsey Holleger and MW Ave Maria OLD are the first recipients of the $25,000 Debbie McDonald Fund For FEI Riders Grant. The Debbie McDonald Fund provides funding for high-level training to horse and rider pairs who are training at Prix St. Georges or higher, who show potential to succeed at FEI […]
Michael Britt-Leon and Kelly Sims had gone to Wellington, Florida, to look at different horses when they saw Bacchus walk out of the barn. “We just fell in love with his look,” Britt-Leon recalled. “They really didn’t want to show him to us because they’re like, ‘No, he doesn’t know anything. He doesn’t do his […]
Every so often, a social media post pops up asking, “Where did all of the barn rats go?” or, “Why does no one want to work for it anymore?” The answer is simple: They’re still right here. They just don’t have the finances to be in the big barns that travel the circuit. They’re in […]
Two U.S. athletes clinched the final gold medals at the Gotham North FEI North American Youth Jumping Championships on Sunday, bringing this year’s event to an exciting conclusion at Flintfields Horse Park in Traverse City, Michigan. NAYC FEI Junior Jumping Individual Championship Carlee McCutcheon (Aubrey, Texas) expertly piloted Coco Mercedes, a 2013 Westphalian mare owned by […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 13 Most riders who head to USEF Pony Finals have everything planned out to a T, practicing on their ponies for months in preparation for the championship. But not Samantha Smith. She came to the Kentucky Horse Park with no pony, just a plan to find one to borrow for the Marshall & […]
Competition continued today at the FEI North American Youth Dressage Championships and welcomed individual winners in the junior and U25 freestyle divisions. Junior Individual Championship Sienna Rowe (Urbanna, Virginia) and Jason Rowe’s 13-year-old Westphalian gelding Lightfire Just Do It landed atop the podium in the junior individual championship with the only 70% of the class, […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 12 After Cameron Cuddy laid down a flawless ride on Temper Of Tony—his fourth clear round of the USEF National Pony Jumper Individual Championship—the pressure was on the final rider, Reagan Voxman. And Voxman rose to the occasion, riding Air Force One to her fourth clear round of the competition to tie Cuddy […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 12 After five years of coming to USEF Pony Finals, this year may be Lily Epstein’s last. So it tasted extra sweet when she rode Goldmark to the top of the large pony hunter division for Take 3 LLC. Heading into the Rolex Arena she took a deep breath and tried to focus […]
Most of the time, if you are on your horse and the bridle is not, something has gone wrong. But for veteran endurance rider Jeremy Reynolds, who on July 29 won the one-day, 100-mile Western States Trail Ride, popularly known as the Tevis Cup, for the fifth time in his career aboard his Arabian mare […]
Capturing hearts and headlines alike, Jessica Springsteen rocketed to victory in the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of London CSI5* with Don Juan Van De Donkhoeve on Sunday. Olivier Philippaerts of Belgium had to settle for second place for the second consecutive week on H&M Miro. Picking up his 24th LGCT Grand Prix podium […]
The Dressage Foundation announced Aug. 15 that Lindsey Holleger and MW Ave Maria OLD are the first recipients of the $25,000 Debbie McDonald Fund For FEI Riders Grant. The Debbie McDonald Fund provides funding for high-level training to horse and rider pairs who are training at Prix St. Georges or higher, who show potential to succeed at FEI […]
Michael Britt-Leon and Kelly Sims had gone to Wellington, Florida, to look at different horses when they saw Bacchus walk out of the barn. “We just fell in love with his look,” Britt-Leon recalled. “They really didn’t want to show him to us because they’re like, ‘No, he doesn’t know anything. He doesn’t do his […]
Every so often, a social media post pops up asking, “Where did all of the barn rats go?” or, “Why does no one want to work for it anymore?” The answer is simple: They’re still right here. They just don’t have the finances to be in the big barns that travel the circuit. They’re in […]
Two U.S. athletes clinched the final gold medals at the Gotham North FEI North American Youth Jumping Championships on Sunday, bringing this year’s event to an exciting conclusion at Flintfields Horse Park in Traverse City, Michigan. NAYC FEI Junior Jumping Individual Championship Carlee McCutcheon (Aubrey, Texas) expertly piloted Coco Mercedes, a 2013 Westphalian mare owned by […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 13 Most riders who head to USEF Pony Finals have everything planned out to a T, practicing on their ponies for months in preparation for the championship. But not Samantha Smith. She came to the Kentucky Horse Park with no pony, just a plan to find one to borrow for the Marshall & […]
Competition continued today at the FEI North American Youth Dressage Championships and welcomed individual winners in the junior and U25 freestyle divisions. Junior Individual Championship Sienna Rowe (Urbanna, Virginia) and Jason Rowe’s 13-year-old Westphalian gelding Lightfire Just Do It landed atop the podium in the junior individual championship with the only 70% of the class, […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 12 After Cameron Cuddy laid down a flawless ride on Temper Of Tony—his fourth clear round of the USEF National Pony Jumper Individual Championship—the pressure was on the final rider, Reagan Voxman. And Voxman rose to the occasion, riding Air Force One to her fourth clear round of the competition to tie Cuddy […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 12 After five years of coming to USEF Pony Finals, this year may be Lily Epstein’s last. So it tasted extra sweet when she rode Goldmark to the top of the large pony hunter division for Take 3 LLC. Heading into the Rolex Arena she took a deep breath and tried to focus […]
