Equestrian Canada announced this week that Eric Lamaze will not renew his one-year contract as technical advisor of the show jumping team when it expires Jan. 31. The High Performance Advisory Group-Jumping and EC staff will take over his technical advisor roles and responsibilities on an interim basis to ensure team athletes are well supported […]
I’ve owned my mare Dixie for just over three years, and she’s the light of my life. I board her just over the river from my Philadelphia home in southern New Jersey, and typically I visit her six days a week. Dixie has no fewer than six blankets for any possible indoor or outdoor weather […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced Adrienne Lyle as the 2022 International Equestrian of the Year and Hunt Tosh as the 2022 National Equestrian of the Year at the 2023 Pegasus Awards Dinner, held Thursday during the USEF Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. Lyle and Tosh were nominated as Equestrians of Honor and selected by USEF member […]
One of the smallest horses is already making one of the biggest impressions at the 2023 Winter Equestrian Festival. Catoki, ridden by McLain Ward, won on the first Sunday grand prix of the Wellington, Florida, series, the $75,000 Prestige Italia Grand Prix that wrapped up WEF Premiere Week on Jan. 8, with a nearly 4-second […]
Leea Bridgeman looked around at the sea of open chairs and wondered if she was in the right place. Bridgeman, an amateur hunter-jumper from Louisville, Kentucky, was in Las Vegas for the 2019 AON USHJA National Championships. She’d decided to pop into a town hall meeting run by Mary Knowlton, president of the U.S. Hunter Jumper […]
Hunter rider Nick Haness had one of his biggest years yet in 2022 with a win in the $25,000 WCHR Pro Final at Capital Challenge (Maryland), the $100,000 WCHR West Coast Hunter Spectacular (California), the $65,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Southwest Regional Championship (California) and the 3’6”/3’9” Platinum Performance USHJA Green Hunter Incentive North Central […]
The final day of the 2023 USEF Horsemastership Training Series had more of a show-ring feel than the flatwork and gymnastics sessions that preceded it, as the dozen young riders involved sought to put together everything they’d learned. Olympic show jumper Kent Farrington, who was leading the Sunday session in Wellington, Florida, started the session […]
After an unexpected right hind suspensory diagnosis, Azul is solidly aboard the rehab train. She’s getting the best possible treatment, and for the next four to six months, she’s boarding at a vet-recommended layup facility about two hours north of me. While it means that I only get to see her about once a week, […]
Talent can only take a rider so far at the top of the sport, McLain Ward told the dozen young riders watching his demonstration ride during the second day of the 2023 Horsemastership Training Series, held Jan. 6-8 in Wellington, Florida. Although gymnastics was the theme of the day, Ward started and ended his session talking about […]
Correction: Inmate records at the John Benoit Detention Center in Riverside County, California, used in a previous version of this story incorrectly reported the number of felony charges Lawler faces. The correct number, according to San Mateo County Court records, is 11. Show jumper Alec Lawler has been released from jail on $140,000 bail after being arrested […]
Equestrian Canada announced this week that Eric Lamaze will not renew his one-year contract as technical advisor of the show jumping team when it expires Jan. 31. The High Performance Advisory Group-Jumping and EC staff will take over his technical advisor roles and responsibilities on an interim basis to ensure team athletes are well supported […]
I’ve owned my mare Dixie for just over three years, and she’s the light of my life. I board her just over the river from my Philadelphia home in southern New Jersey, and typically I visit her six days a week. Dixie has no fewer than six blankets for any possible indoor or outdoor weather […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced Adrienne Lyle as the 2022 International Equestrian of the Year and Hunt Tosh as the 2022 National Equestrian of the Year at the 2023 Pegasus Awards Dinner, held Thursday during the USEF Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. Lyle and Tosh were nominated as Equestrians of Honor and selected by USEF member […]
One of the smallest horses is already making one of the biggest impressions at the 2023 Winter Equestrian Festival. Catoki, ridden by McLain Ward, won on the first Sunday grand prix of the Wellington, Florida, series, the $75,000 Prestige Italia Grand Prix that wrapped up WEF Premiere Week on Jan. 8, with a nearly 4-second […]
Leea Bridgeman looked around at the sea of open chairs and wondered if she was in the right place. Bridgeman, an amateur hunter-jumper from Louisville, Kentucky, was in Las Vegas for the 2019 AON USHJA National Championships. She’d decided to pop into a town hall meeting run by Mary Knowlton, president of the U.S. Hunter Jumper […]
Hunter rider Nick Haness had one of his biggest years yet in 2022 with a win in the $25,000 WCHR Pro Final at Capital Challenge (Maryland), the $100,000 WCHR West Coast Hunter Spectacular (California), the $65,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Southwest Regional Championship (California) and the 3’6”/3’9” Platinum Performance USHJA Green Hunter Incentive North Central […]
The final day of the 2023 USEF Horsemastership Training Series had more of a show-ring feel than the flatwork and gymnastics sessions that preceded it, as the dozen young riders involved sought to put together everything they’d learned. Olympic show jumper Kent Farrington, who was leading the Sunday session in Wellington, Florida, started the session […]
After an unexpected right hind suspensory diagnosis, Azul is solidly aboard the rehab train. She’s getting the best possible treatment, and for the next four to six months, she’s boarding at a vet-recommended layup facility about two hours north of me. While it means that I only get to see her about once a week, […]
Talent can only take a rider so far at the top of the sport, McLain Ward told the dozen young riders watching his demonstration ride during the second day of the 2023 Horsemastership Training Series, held Jan. 6-8 in Wellington, Florida. Although gymnastics was the theme of the day, Ward started and ended his session talking about […]
Correction: Inmate records at the John Benoit Detention Center in Riverside County, California, used in a previous version of this story incorrectly reported the number of felony charges Lawler faces. The correct number, according to San Mateo County Court records, is 11. Show jumper Alec Lawler has been released from jail on $140,000 bail after being arrested […]
