I am so incredibly excited to be blogging about my 2023 Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover prospects and their journeys! I have always loved writing, and I am thrilled to have been asked to blog about the retraining of my Makeover horses by The Chronicle of the Horse! COTH is THE magazine (real life, hard […]
Bluetooth OLD and Frederic Wandres look the picture of elegance and perfection in the dressage arena. Last winter, however, it was a very different story when Wandres decided to celebrate their first five-star win in the International Arena at the WEF showground by going on a trail ride. “A day after the prize-giving for the […]
While torrential storms last week forced scheduling changes for the opening days of the Longines Global Champions Tour of Miami Beach, the event’s trademark blue seas and sunshine were back Saturday in time for the week’s main event. And, for the second year in a row, it was Germany’s Katrin Eckermann and her mare Cala Mandia […]
It was on a Wednesday in April 2020 that an old friend of Sally Shaffer’s called to report her neighbor’s son had died by suicide, leaving behind his farm, his animals and his grief-stricken father. The farm was now bank-owned and heading for a sheriff’s sale, and the father had only three days to remove […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association invites senior active competing or senior education/non-competing members in good standing to nominate individuals for the office of president now through May 1. Elections to the USHJA board of directors are voted on by board members based on input from USHJA membership through the nomination process. Members may nominate themselves, and prior USHJA […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations that have been selected for the U.S. Eventing European Development Tour for the summer of 2023. The following combinations are listed in alphabetical order: Jenny Caras (Buckhead, Georgia) and Trendy Fernhill, a 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding owned by Elyse Eisenberg Andrew McConnon (Vass, North Carolina) and […]
At the ring Private I is no nonsense. This hunter is as businesslike as they come. He wants to do his job—and he’s very good at it. The 11-year-old Oldenburg (Corrado—Verdi) owned by Kelly Sims is not only a formidable contender in the high performance hunters and international hunter derbies with professional Michael Britt-Leon, but […]
The entry list for this year’s Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L, which takes place April 26-30, has shrunk. Will Coleman has withdrawn Dondante, and British Olympic gold medalist Leslie Law withdrew Voltaire De Tre’. As of April 17:On April 15 Valerie Pride posted on her Facebook page that she’s withdrawing Favian. “I believe it is better […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to the U.S. Dressage European Young Rider Tour and U.S. Dressage European U25 Tour. The following athlete-and-horse combinations have been selected for the U.S. Dressage European Young Rider Tour and are listed in alphabetical order: Kat Fuqua (Atlanta) and Dreamgirl, her own 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare Erin […]
I am so incredibly excited to be blogging about my 2023 Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover prospects and their journeys! I have always loved writing, and I am thrilled to have been asked to blog about the retraining of my Makeover horses by The Chronicle of the Horse! COTH is THE magazine (real life, hard […]
Bluetooth OLD and Frederic Wandres look the picture of elegance and perfection in the dressage arena. Last winter, however, it was a very different story when Wandres decided to celebrate their first five-star win in the International Arena at the WEF showground by going on a trail ride. “A day after the prize-giving for the […]
While torrential storms last week forced scheduling changes for the opening days of the Longines Global Champions Tour of Miami Beach, the event’s trademark blue seas and sunshine were back Saturday in time for the week’s main event. And, for the second year in a row, it was Germany’s Katrin Eckermann and her mare Cala Mandia […]
It was on a Wednesday in April 2020 that an old friend of Sally Shaffer’s called to report her neighbor’s son had died by suicide, leaving behind his farm, his animals and his grief-stricken father. The farm was now bank-owned and heading for a sheriff’s sale, and the father had only three days to remove […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association invites senior active competing or senior education/non-competing members in good standing to nominate individuals for the office of president now through May 1. Elections to the USHJA board of directors are voted on by board members based on input from USHJA membership through the nomination process. Members may nominate themselves, and prior USHJA […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations that have been selected for the U.S. Eventing European Development Tour for the summer of 2023. The following combinations are listed in alphabetical order: Jenny Caras (Buckhead, Georgia) and Trendy Fernhill, a 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding owned by Elyse Eisenberg Andrew McConnon (Vass, North Carolina) and […]
At the ring Private I is no nonsense. This hunter is as businesslike as they come. He wants to do his job—and he’s very good at it. The 11-year-old Oldenburg (Corrado—Verdi) owned by Kelly Sims is not only a formidable contender in the high performance hunters and international hunter derbies with professional Michael Britt-Leon, but […]
The entry list for this year’s Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L, which takes place April 26-30, has shrunk. Will Coleman has withdrawn Dondante, and British Olympic gold medalist Leslie Law withdrew Voltaire De Tre’. As of April 17:On April 15 Valerie Pride posted on her Facebook page that she’s withdrawing Favian. “I believe it is better […]
The 3-year-old Przewalski’s horse is a clone carrying precious genetic material from the past, helping preserve an entire species’ future.
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to the U.S. Dressage European Young Rider Tour and U.S. Dressage European U25 Tour. The following athlete-and-horse combinations have been selected for the U.S. Dressage European Young Rider Tour and are listed in alphabetical order: Kat Fuqua (Atlanta) and Dreamgirl, her own 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare Erin […]
