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 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 […]
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 […]
Reeling in the wake of two major storms that flooded the grounds of Vermont’s nonprofit Green Mountain Horse Association, the nearly century-old organization has been forced to cancel multiple events, including three of the four major shows that form the backbone of its summer season. Late Tuesday, GMHA announced that it will have to cancel […]
For several years USEF ‘S’ dressage judge Natalie Lamping has advocated for permitting rising trot beyond training and first level dressage tests. On July 13, she went to Facebook to ask for support in making a proposal to test writers that would permit rising trot during medium and extended trots through fourth level. Although her suggestion […]
On July 24 the U.S. Equestrian Federation board of directors convened for a special meeting during which they approved an amendment to the protective headgear certification rule change, which was originally approved during the mid-year board meeting in June. With this amendment, the rule change will have an effective date of Aug. 1, 2023. This […]
Flipping through old photographs featuring her first horse, a one-eyed Quarter Horse named Copper, Sarah Tubman can see just how far she’s come from her early riding days. Though her mom, Francie Lockman, grew up riding in South Africa, the western tack that came with Copper was a bit of a mystery to her. “There are plenty […]
If you ask Evi Strasser, there’s only one thing that could beat standing on a podium at an international championship: standing there next to your daughter. That’s just what she and Tanya Strasser-Shostak are hoping to do at this fall’s Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. “Most Grand Prix riders are retired by the time […]
I’m in the thick of raising young horsewomen—I’ve got four daughters who ride (eek), the oldest of whom is now 13. I’ve messed up big-time along the way, so I’m sharing what I’ve learned so far. I hope my hot tips might help you support your daughter in becoming more than a rider, plus save […]
Between her tall boots and his cowboy hat, they might look like an equestrian odd couple, but Hunter Holloway and Dylan Gamble’s outlook on horses is remarkably compatible. Holloway grew up on the hunter/jumper circuit while Gamble was raised on a Montana cattle ranch. Today, the young couple blends their starkly different backgrounds to develop well-rounded, agile jumpers […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Reeling in the wake of two major storms that flooded the grounds of Vermont’s nonprofit Green Mountain Horse Association, the nearly century-old organization has been forced to cancel multiple events, including three of the four major shows that form the backbone of its summer season. Late Tuesday, GMHA announced that it will have to cancel […]
For several years USEF ‘S’ dressage judge Natalie Lamping has advocated for permitting rising trot beyond training and first level dressage tests. On July 13, she went to Facebook to ask for support in making a proposal to test writers that would permit rising trot during medium and extended trots through fourth level. Although her suggestion […]
On July 24 the U.S. Equestrian Federation board of directors convened for a special meeting during which they approved an amendment to the protective headgear certification rule change, which was originally approved during the mid-year board meeting in June. With this amendment, the rule change will have an effective date of Aug. 1, 2023. This […]
Flipping through old photographs featuring her first horse, a one-eyed Quarter Horse named Copper, Sarah Tubman can see just how far she’s come from her early riding days. Though her mom, Francie Lockman, grew up riding in South Africa, the western tack that came with Copper was a bit of a mystery to her. “There are plenty […]
If you ask Evi Strasser, there’s only one thing that could beat standing on a podium at an international championship: standing there next to your daughter. That’s just what she and Tanya Strasser-Shostak are hoping to do at this fall’s Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. “Most Grand Prix riders are retired by the time […]
I’m in the thick of raising young horsewomen—I’ve got four daughters who ride (eek), the oldest of whom is now 13. I’ve messed up big-time along the way, so I’m sharing what I’ve learned so far. I hope my hot tips might help you support your daughter in becoming more than a rider, plus save […]
Between her tall boots and his cowboy hat, they might look like an equestrian odd couple, but Hunter Holloway and Dylan Gamble’s outlook on horses is remarkably compatible. Holloway grew up on the hunter/jumper circuit while Gamble was raised on a Montana cattle ranch. Today, the young couple blends their starkly different backgrounds to develop well-rounded, agile jumpers […]
