Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 12 Morgan Barbançon scored another win Saturday with Habana Libre A, her second victory of the week at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, this time in the MTICA Farm Grand Prix Special CDI3* on a mark of 71.66%. “He was almost too cool in there today. In those piaffes I could have kicked him maybe a […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 11 HH Azur. Clinta. Sapphire. McLain Ward has a history of winning big with mares, and he hopes his newest five-star winner, Callas, will follow in their footsteps. That pair outran eight others in the jump-off on their way to the win in Saturday’s CHF 406,000 Fidelity Investments Grand Prix CSI5*, the feature […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 10 Frederic Wandres made it four wins in a row Friday night when he topped the Havensafe Farm Grand Prix freestyle CDI-W tonight aboard Bluetooth OLD, his second freestyle win of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival season. The 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Bordeaux 28—Lorena, Riccione) scored an 80.56% tonight under the lights during the […]
Morgan Barbançon flew three horses from Geneva, Switzerland, to Wellington, Florida, this year to ride at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival for the first time, and she’s making the trip count. She’s already won three Grand Prix-level classes on three different horses since arriving to Florida in January, adding a fourth win today in the MTICA Farm Grand […]
More than 200 Lusitano enthusiasts converged upon the dressage hub of Loxahatchee, Florida, this week to attend the inaugural U.S. Lusitano Association Conference and take advantage of events including a master class with six-time Finnish Olympian and Portuguese Olympic team coach Kyra Kyrklund. “It was almost 30 years ago when I saw Lusitanos for the […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 9 For three years Frederic Wandres has been coming from Germany to Wellington, Florida, for the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and it’s easy to see why he likes it. He wins here. A lot. On Thursday, he scored his fifth win of the season when he rode Bluetooth OLD to a mark of […]
Katie Laurie has a life of contrasts—from a Southern Hemisphere childhood in New Zealand, she now lives in snowy, distinctly Northern Hemisphere Canada; from a family of show jumpers, she married a saddle bronc rider—but it seems to be a recipe for success. Laurie, who rides at the international level for Australia and represented the country […]
Jim Wofford grew up on a farm in Milford, Kan., the youngest son of a storied equestrian family: His father, Col. John W. Wofford, was a member of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic show jumping team and later the founding president of the U.S. Equestrian Team, and his brothers, J.E.B. and Warren, were both USET riders. After graduating from the Culver Military Academy (Ind.) and the University of Colorado, Jim set out to affirm his family heritage, bringing home a team silver medal from the Mexico City Olympics aboard Kilkenny in 1968.
Ariana Marnell vividly remembers the first time she saw Ocean Road. It was during the $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular at the 2020 Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida), and his owner and regular rider Keri Kampsen had offered “Roady” to fellow professional John French, who finished ninth in the highly competitive class with him. When Marnell started […]
Ah, the perfect sitting trot, when horse and rider move as one, and there’s nary a bounce in sight. Though it seems like it would be simple, all riders know there’s much more to it than just, well, sitting there. It takes special skills, fitness and a willing equine partner to make it work. We […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 12 Morgan Barbançon scored another win Saturday with Habana Libre A, her second victory of the week at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, this time in the MTICA Farm Grand Prix Special CDI3* on a mark of 71.66%. “He was almost too cool in there today. In those piaffes I could have kicked him maybe a […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 11 HH Azur. Clinta. Sapphire. McLain Ward has a history of winning big with mares, and he hopes his newest five-star winner, Callas, will follow in their footsteps. That pair outran eight others in the jump-off on their way to the win in Saturday’s CHF 406,000 Fidelity Investments Grand Prix CSI5*, the feature […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 10 Frederic Wandres made it four wins in a row Friday night when he topped the Havensafe Farm Grand Prix freestyle CDI-W tonight aboard Bluetooth OLD, his second freestyle win of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival season. The 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Bordeaux 28—Lorena, Riccione) scored an 80.56% tonight under the lights during the […]
Morgan Barbançon flew three horses from Geneva, Switzerland, to Wellington, Florida, this year to ride at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival for the first time, and she’s making the trip count. She’s already won three Grand Prix-level classes on three different horses since arriving to Florida in January, adding a fourth win today in the MTICA Farm Grand […]
More than 200 Lusitano enthusiasts converged upon the dressage hub of Loxahatchee, Florida, this week to attend the inaugural U.S. Lusitano Association Conference and take advantage of events including a master class with six-time Finnish Olympian and Portuguese Olympic team coach Kyra Kyrklund. “It was almost 30 years ago when I saw Lusitanos for the […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 9 For three years Frederic Wandres has been coming from Germany to Wellington, Florida, for the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and it’s easy to see why he likes it. He wins here. A lot. On Thursday, he scored his fifth win of the season when he rode Bluetooth OLD to a mark of […]
Katie Laurie has a life of contrasts—from a Southern Hemisphere childhood in New Zealand, she now lives in snowy, distinctly Northern Hemisphere Canada; from a family of show jumpers, she married a saddle bronc rider—but it seems to be a recipe for success. Laurie, who rides at the international level for Australia and represented the country […]
Jim Wofford grew up on a farm in Milford, Kan., the youngest son of a storied equestrian family: His father, Col. John W. Wofford, was a member of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic show jumping team and later the founding president of the U.S. Equestrian Team, and his brothers, J.E.B. and Warren, were both USET riders. After graduating from the Culver Military Academy (Ind.) and the University of Colorado, Jim set out to affirm his family heritage, bringing home a team silver medal from the Mexico City Olympics aboard Kilkenny in 1968.
Ariana Marnell vividly remembers the first time she saw Ocean Road. It was during the $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular at the 2020 Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida), and his owner and regular rider Keri Kampsen had offered “Roady” to fellow professional John French, who finished ninth in the highly competitive class with him. When Marnell started […]
Ah, the perfect sitting trot, when horse and rider move as one, and there’s nary a bounce in sight. Though it seems like it would be simple, all riders know there’s much more to it than just, well, sitting there. It takes special skills, fitness and a willing equine partner to make it work. We […]
