Nominees Selected For 2023 USHJA Presidential Election

The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Nominating Committee, having reviewed and considered the nominations for the position of president of USHJA, has put forward DiAnn Langer and Britt McCormick as the official nominees for office of the president. The USHJA board of directors will meet on Sept. 11 to elect USHJA’s next president, who will take […]

Watch Why They Won: Cook Turns Up The Heat With 5* Champion Caracole De La Roque

Karl Cook proved it’s never over until it’s over. After Kent Farrington, going early in the jump-off order, put in a blazing time aboard Greya that seemed to close the door on his fellow competitors, Cook and his new ride Caracole De La Roque found a window—winning Sunday’s $145,100 CSI3* Grand Prix of Traverse City […]

Heartbreak Doesn’t Stop Carly Williams From Chasing Her Dreams

When Carly Williams isn’t schooling IHSA horses or showing goats, she can be found putting in the hard work that earned her a U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Gochman Grant for this year’s USEF Pony Finals in Lexington, Kentucky, held Aug. 8-13.  The 17-year-old from Elfland, North Carolina, trains with Cammie Fielding at Pleasant Hill Farm […]

Fundraising Efforts For Safety Vest Research Off To Slow Start

A month after the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association announced the launch of a $825,000 project to test equestrian protective vests, fundraising efforts have stalled. In order for the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab to begin the two-year project to research and test current body protectors and air vests on the market, $450,000—half of the funds—must be raised. […]

The Clothes Horse, Riding Out Edition

There’s nothing better than a long summer hack, and with the right gear you can explore your local trails or fields from sunrise until sundown—footloose and bug free.  Piper SmartCore Long Sleeve Crew Neck Sun Shirt It sounds contradictory, but it’s true: Sometimes you have to layer up to cool down, and donning a long-sleeved […]

Baby On Board? Breeding Is Not For The Faint Of Heart

Girl horse meets boy horse. Girl horse falls in love with boy horse. Girl horse and boy horse make a baby. OK. So I knew it wasn’t going to be that easy. For one, Cairo will likely never meet her baby daddy. This isn’t “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” or some Disney movie. This is […]

Throwback Thursday: Madden Bounces Back With Big Wins At Hickstead

In honor of this weekend’s Longines Royal International Horse Show (Great Britain), we’re revisiting 2014, when Beezie Madden scored big victories at the competition, including becoming the first woman to win the Longines King George V Gold Cup. She did it with super horse Cortes ‘C’ who died earlier this month at age 21. They […]

Amateur Rider Fatally Injured At New York Horse Show

Amateur rider Wayne Barr, 59, Wellington, Florida, suffered a fatal accident Saturday, July 22, while competing at the Saratoga Summer Celebration in Stillwater, New York. Barr was riding his horse Pacco, an 8-year-old Belgian Warmblood, in a training jumper class, when the horse had an awkward jump that unseated Barr, resulting in a fall several […]

Watch Why They Won: A Pair Of Mares Top JHNC—West

A pair of mares won grand champion honors in the 2023 Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championship—West on Tuesday in San Juan Capistrano, California. Evermore, an 8-year-old Holsteiner (Dinken—M-Coriella) owned by Tatum Equestrian LLC and ridden by Eleanor Rudnicki, secured the small junior hunter, 16-17, championship and overall grand championship for the 3’6” height after earning formidable […]