Last year around this time, I wrote a blog encouraging everyone to just do it: Commit to living your best life and “Buy The Darn Farm!” But these past few months, I’m feeling the winter blues down to my frozen core. I’m reflecting on how my dream of raising my family on my very own […]
For me, February means Mudpack Mondays and quiet, sunny afternoons at the hay feeder while all my dear therapy students are on winter break. From what I understand though, the month is considerably more challenging for Humans, who have invented something called Valentine’s Day. As near as I can figure out, this is a holiday […]
Buddy Brown’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Games partner Sandsablaze has been elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, and he will be inducted along with four-time Olympian Laura Kraut during a March 2 ceremony at the Wellington National Golf Club (Florida). “Sandsablaze had a storybook career that was never meant to be and may be unequaled […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the combinations selected to represent the Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA CDIO3* during the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida, Feb. 19-23. This will be the first team outing of the 2025 competition season for the Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team, […]
Correction: Only one presidential modification regarding pony conformation classes was issued in 2024, according to the U.S. Equestrian Federation. Pony hunter conformation classes will be held at premier- and national-rated horse shows this year, after a Jan. 20 U.S. Equestrian Federation presidential modification introduced by the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association was reversed this week. However, […]
When Emily Donaldson went to look at Beaujolais 75 as an unbroke 3-year-old, she tried not to like him. She brought her mom along, hoping she’d call her crazy for even considering him. Instead, Donaldson’s mom told her she loved him. “I thought, ‘Well, shoot. That’s not the answer I wanted,’ ” Donaldson recalled. In […]
Around Christmas, Grand Prix dressage rider Lauren Chumley received a text message from her event rider friend Meg Kepferle. “Can you go to California?” it read. “At this very moment?” was Chumley’s response. While Chumley is a dressage professional, for nearly 15 years she’s dabbled “on the dark side,” in the eventing world, competing up […]
Retired Canadian show jumper Eric Lamaze has been suspended until 2031 after the international Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against him in a human anti-doping case initiated by the Fédération Equestre International in 2022. The case stems from Lamaze’s refusal to submit to a human drug test at a 2021 show jumping competition in the Netherlands. […]
Editor’s note: This article describes suicidal ideation. A little more than two decades ago, Emily Williams was at the top of her game. She had jumped her first grand prix by 14. In 1999, her last junior year, she was named the Chronicle’s Hunter Horseman of the Year after becoming the 11th rider to win […]
JJ Torano topped a field of 75 equitation riders of the nation’s top junior athletes to win the 2025 WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship on Saturday at the World Equestrian Center-Ocala (Florida). The prestigious competition featured a three-phase format, with the possibility of a work-off. Torano, 14, of Wellington, Florida, secured the championship title—and the keys […]
Last year around this time, I wrote a blog encouraging everyone to just do it: Commit to living your best life and “Buy The Darn Farm!” But these past few months, I’m feeling the winter blues down to my frozen core. I’m reflecting on how my dream of raising my family on my very own […]
For me, February means Mudpack Mondays and quiet, sunny afternoons at the hay feeder while all my dear therapy students are on winter break. From what I understand though, the month is considerably more challenging for Humans, who have invented something called Valentine’s Day. As near as I can figure out, this is a holiday […]
Buddy Brown’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Games partner Sandsablaze has been elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, and he will be inducted along with four-time Olympian Laura Kraut during a March 2 ceremony at the Wellington National Golf Club (Florida). “Sandsablaze had a storybook career that was never meant to be and may be unequaled […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the combinations selected to represent the Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA CDIO3* during the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida, Feb. 19-23. This will be the first team outing of the 2025 competition season for the Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team, […]
Correction: Only one presidential modification regarding pony conformation classes was issued in 2024, according to the U.S. Equestrian Federation. Pony hunter conformation classes will be held at premier- and national-rated horse shows this year, after a Jan. 20 U.S. Equestrian Federation presidential modification introduced by the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association was reversed this week. However, […]
When Emily Donaldson went to look at Beaujolais 75 as an unbroke 3-year-old, she tried not to like him. She brought her mom along, hoping she’d call her crazy for even considering him. Instead, Donaldson’s mom told her she loved him. “I thought, ‘Well, shoot. That’s not the answer I wanted,’ ” Donaldson recalled. In […]
Around Christmas, Grand Prix dressage rider Lauren Chumley received a text message from her event rider friend Meg Kepferle. “Can you go to California?” it read. “At this very moment?” was Chumley’s response. While Chumley is a dressage professional, for nearly 15 years she’s dabbled “on the dark side,” in the eventing world, competing up […]
Retired Canadian show jumper Eric Lamaze has been suspended until 2031 after the international Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against him in a human anti-doping case initiated by the Fédération Equestre International in 2022. The case stems from Lamaze’s refusal to submit to a human drug test at a 2021 show jumping competition in the Netherlands. […]
Editor’s note: This article describes suicidal ideation. A little more than two decades ago, Emily Williams was at the top of her game. She had jumped her first grand prix by 14. In 1999, her last junior year, she was named the Chronicle’s Hunter Horseman of the Year after becoming the 11th rider to win […]
JJ Torano topped a field of 75 equitation riders of the nation’s top junior athletes to win the 2025 WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship on Saturday at the World Equestrian Center-Ocala (Florida). The prestigious competition featured a three-phase format, with the possibility of a work-off. Torano, 14, of Wellington, Florida, secured the championship title—and the keys […]
