Ocala, Fla.—March 24 After three months of competing at the World Equestrian Center Ocala’s Winter Spectacular Series this winter, In The Know has come to know his routine very well. He shows in the hunter derby on Friday, then returns to rider Sam Schaefer’s local farm where he spends three days off enjoying his turnout. […]
While some riders might feel a little apprehensive about having to get ready for the HITS Equitation class without a trainer, Schuyler Dayner didn’t sweat it. “It’s something I’m a little bit used to. My mom’s a trainer, so I’m a little bit independent, and I’m used to the training side of it, so it […]
Nine U.S. riders will contest the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Final in Omaha, April 4-8, including 2017 winner McLain Ward, according to the definite entries list released March 24. Besides Ward, who will ride Callas, five U.S. riders qualified out of the North American League-East: Ailish Cunniffe (Vivaldi Du Theil); Nicholas Dello Joio (Cornet’s […]
A little over 10 years ago I found myself having to give up a ride on a very good horse. We had great success with this particular horse in international competition, yet the owner had decided to let the ride go to another rider. This was not the first time in my career that this […]
Less than six months after importing Foreign Exchange as a 6-year-old from the Czech Republic, Britney Leger took the Selle Français gelding of unrecorded breeding to his first show at the Huntington Beach Summer Classic (California). The pair came home champions in the baby green hunter division after sweeping the division at the August 2017 […]
In memory of Pippa Funnell’s legendary event horse Primmore’s Pride, with whom she clinched two of the three consecutive five-star events that helped her become the first Rolex Grand Slam winner in 2003, we’re looking back at this recounting of the final day of the 2003 Burghley Horse Trials, where the pair won the final leg […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the appointment of long-term employee Hallye Griffin as director of FEI sport. Griffin will assume the duties of former director of FEI/high-performance sport Graeme Thom, who has chosen to step away from the role he assumed in October to attend to personal matters. Griffin assumes her duties as of today, March […]
Top riders regularly point out that it’s getting harder and harder to find championship horses, that is, horses that can excel over many rounds of competition at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games or FEI World Cup Final. So what is it that makes a championship horse versus “just” a grand prix winner? We asked […]
There are plenty of five-figure classes at horse shows for riders to compete in, but a big money class for grooms? That’s nearly unheard of. That is, until last week at Desert Circuit IX in Thermal, California. That’s where 10 grooms competed for $25,000 in the Peninsula Beverly Hills Grooms’ Class. Entries were determined by lottery, with […]
To Buck Davidson’s daughter Ellie, the Breyer horses in the stable she shares with her older sister, Aubrey, are all the same. She refers to all model and real-life horses by the name “Prize” and treats them alike, including the bay horse with a white hind sock that will have bigger meaning when she is […]
Ocala, Fla.—March 24 After three months of competing at the World Equestrian Center Ocala’s Winter Spectacular Series this winter, In The Know has come to know his routine very well. He shows in the hunter derby on Friday, then returns to rider Sam Schaefer’s local farm where he spends three days off enjoying his turnout. […]
While some riders might feel a little apprehensive about having to get ready for the HITS Equitation class without a trainer, Schuyler Dayner didn’t sweat it. “It’s something I’m a little bit used to. My mom’s a trainer, so I’m a little bit independent, and I’m used to the training side of it, so it […]
Nine U.S. riders will contest the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Final in Omaha, April 4-8, including 2017 winner McLain Ward, according to the definite entries list released March 24. Besides Ward, who will ride Callas, five U.S. riders qualified out of the North American League-East: Ailish Cunniffe (Vivaldi Du Theil); Nicholas Dello Joio (Cornet’s […]
A little over 10 years ago I found myself having to give up a ride on a very good horse. We had great success with this particular horse in international competition, yet the owner had decided to let the ride go to another rider. This was not the first time in my career that this […]
Less than six months after importing Foreign Exchange as a 6-year-old from the Czech Republic, Britney Leger took the Selle Français gelding of unrecorded breeding to his first show at the Huntington Beach Summer Classic (California). The pair came home champions in the baby green hunter division after sweeping the division at the August 2017 […]
In memory of Pippa Funnell’s legendary event horse Primmore’s Pride, with whom she clinched two of the three consecutive five-star events that helped her become the first Rolex Grand Slam winner in 2003, we’re looking back at this recounting of the final day of the 2003 Burghley Horse Trials, where the pair won the final leg […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the appointment of long-term employee Hallye Griffin as director of FEI sport. Griffin will assume the duties of former director of FEI/high-performance sport Graeme Thom, who has chosen to step away from the role he assumed in October to attend to personal matters. Griffin assumes her duties as of today, March […]
Top riders regularly point out that it’s getting harder and harder to find championship horses, that is, horses that can excel over many rounds of competition at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games or FEI World Cup Final. So what is it that makes a championship horse versus “just” a grand prix winner? We asked […]
There are plenty of five-figure classes at horse shows for riders to compete in, but a big money class for grooms? That’s nearly unheard of. That is, until last week at Desert Circuit IX in Thermal, California. That’s where 10 grooms competed for $25,000 in the Peninsula Beverly Hills Grooms’ Class. Entries were determined by lottery, with […]
To Buck Davidson’s daughter Ellie, the Breyer horses in the stable she shares with her older sister, Aubrey, are all the same. She refers to all model and real-life horses by the name “Prize” and treats them alike, including the bay horse with a white hind sock that will have bigger meaning when she is […]
