I see it too much: People talking in Facebook groups about getting their Thoroughbred’s lip tattoo put on their body or showing off Jockey Club number tattoos they already have. I love my Thoroughbreds as much as the next person. My late heart horse was my best friend for 20 years, and I might get […]
Do you know how you get really, really good in a horse sport? There are some truisms: Just keep doing it; take lessons; hopefully have your coach help with your horse occasionally. But here’s the thing a lot of people miss: Even if you’re a novice dressage rider, getting basics from a coach who genuinely […]
The Virginia Horse Center Foundation announced Jan. 25 that national and FEI-level eventing will continue this year at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Virginia, under the name of Virginia Horse Center Eventing. VHC Eventing has received unanimous approval from the U.S. Equestrian Federation to hold beginner novice through intermediate level horse trials plus a […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the four athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Adequan U.S. Para Dressage Team at the Wellington CPEDI3*, Jan. 26, 28 and 29, in Wellington, Florida. The following combinations are listed in alphabetical order: • Beatrice de Lavalette (Loxahatchee, Florida) and Sixth Sense, a 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding owned by Elizabeth […]
This year, my equitation-obsessed, 14-year-old-daughter, Quinn, embarked on her journey in the “Big Eq.” Instead of spending hours caught up in my own mental class warfare of “how much more can your parents provide for you,” I discovered an astounding concept: Stats for the classes shown in—the actual number of times kids get to hone […]
Will Coleman finished the year as the top U.S. rider on the FEI Eventing World Athlete Rankings, in fifth place. A member of the silver-medal winning team at the FEI World Eventing Championships in Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy, he also finished seventh individually with Off the Record. This week, he was awarded the U.S. Equestrian Team […]
Judy Werner was elected vice president and Ellie Brimmer was added as an athlete representative on the U.S. Equestrian Federation board of directions meeting Jan. 14, held during the USEF Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. Werner, Waterloo, Illinois, brings a long history in USEF governance, having served on numerous committees and councils, including as vice president […]
When Belgian Olympic team bronze medalist Grégory Wathelet started planning out his winter season, he started thinking beyond his typical European stomping grounds and instead looked across the Atlantic. “I’d been thinking already about having that kind of experience, to try something else—another tour, another place,” he said. “I’ve been doing the same tours for […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association is pleased to announce the selected participants for the 2023 USHJA Gold Star Clinic-West. Lauren Hough and Kirsten Coe will lead the mounted instruction at Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, Jan. 25-29, alongside stable management clinician Colleen Reed. Congratulations to the following riders on being selected for this year’s […]
During the early days of the pandemic in 2020, the staff at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Nevins Farm in Methuen, Massachusetts, was handling many new surrenders of animals whose owners could no longer afford their care. One such request came from the owner of two horses: Due to COVID-related cutbacks, […]
I see it too much: People talking in Facebook groups about getting their Thoroughbred’s lip tattoo put on their body or showing off Jockey Club number tattoos they already have. I love my Thoroughbreds as much as the next person. My late heart horse was my best friend for 20 years, and I might get […]
Do you know how you get really, really good in a horse sport? There are some truisms: Just keep doing it; take lessons; hopefully have your coach help with your horse occasionally. But here’s the thing a lot of people miss: Even if you’re a novice dressage rider, getting basics from a coach who genuinely […]
The Virginia Horse Center Foundation announced Jan. 25 that national and FEI-level eventing will continue this year at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Virginia, under the name of Virginia Horse Center Eventing. VHC Eventing has received unanimous approval from the U.S. Equestrian Federation to hold beginner novice through intermediate level horse trials plus a […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the four athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Adequan U.S. Para Dressage Team at the Wellington CPEDI3*, Jan. 26, 28 and 29, in Wellington, Florida. The following combinations are listed in alphabetical order: • Beatrice de Lavalette (Loxahatchee, Florida) and Sixth Sense, a 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding owned by Elizabeth […]
This year, my equitation-obsessed, 14-year-old-daughter, Quinn, embarked on her journey in the “Big Eq.” Instead of spending hours caught up in my own mental class warfare of “how much more can your parents provide for you,” I discovered an astounding concept: Stats for the classes shown in—the actual number of times kids get to hone […]
Will Coleman finished the year as the top U.S. rider on the FEI Eventing World Athlete Rankings, in fifth place. A member of the silver-medal winning team at the FEI World Eventing Championships in Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy, he also finished seventh individually with Off the Record. This week, he was awarded the U.S. Equestrian Team […]
Judy Werner was elected vice president and Ellie Brimmer was added as an athlete representative on the U.S. Equestrian Federation board of directions meeting Jan. 14, held during the USEF Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. Werner, Waterloo, Illinois, brings a long history in USEF governance, having served on numerous committees and councils, including as vice president […]
When Belgian Olympic team bronze medalist Grégory Wathelet started planning out his winter season, he started thinking beyond his typical European stomping grounds and instead looked across the Atlantic. “I’d been thinking already about having that kind of experience, to try something else—another tour, another place,” he said. “I’ve been doing the same tours for […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association is pleased to announce the selected participants for the 2023 USHJA Gold Star Clinic-West. Lauren Hough and Kirsten Coe will lead the mounted instruction at Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, Jan. 25-29, alongside stable management clinician Colleen Reed. Congratulations to the following riders on being selected for this year’s […]
During the early days of the pandemic in 2020, the staff at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Nevins Farm in Methuen, Massachusetts, was handling many new surrenders of animals whose owners could no longer afford their care. One such request came from the owner of two horses: Due to COVID-related cutbacks, […]
