Horse owners are dedicated to their equine partners, often making personal sacrifices to ensure their horses are well cared for by veterinarians, farriers, and trainers. Horses are pampered with warm blankets, massages and carefully thought-out exercise programs. Regardless of the equine discipline, most owners put their horses first, before themselves, devoting enormous sums of money […]
Four-time U.S. Olympian Laura Kraut and Sandsablaze, Buddy Brown’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Games mount, have been elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted during the Hall of Fame’s Induction Gala on March 2, at the Wellington National Golf Club in Florida. At the induction, the Hall of Fame will also present […]
I can picture my seventh-grade teacher, let’s call her Mrs. Smith, with her bun wound almost as tightly as she was, wagging her finger at me, and putting on a very stern look. “Matthew! Stop throwing those beer nuts across the classroom!” I don’t remember exactly what went through my head when she told me […]
I need security cameras, I thought, peering into the depths of the partially frozen, 100-gallon trough in my front pasture. My phone glowed eerily from the bottom, a sad little submarine. It’s a real shame no one else gets to see this. Just before dusk, I’d set out to check the troughs in each of the three […]
When Jaxon Hoshaw enters the ring Saturday for the prestigious Premier Equitation Cup at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), he’ll already be a winner. The 17-year-old from Clermont, Florida, will have help offsetting his competition expenses after being named in January as the first recipient of a $10,000 scholarship from the Hannah M. Serfass Foundation—the largest […]
Ever since equine veterinarian Lori Bidwell, DVM, DACVAA, CVA, was a little girl growing up on a farm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, horse welfare has been her No. 1 priority. “Now there’s a sign hanging in my office that says, ‘We do this because we love horses,’ ” Bidwell said. “I think it’s important to […]
Let’s make a slightly delayed New Year’s resolution, horse professionals: 2025 is going to be the year that you look at your savings and retirement plans, or lack thereof, and put some actual plans in place. I know, I know, horse people never retire, we just subsist on coffee and ibuprofen and yell, “half HALT!” […]
After careful review of all nominees, the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Nominating Committee has recommended two candidates, Shelley Campf and James Hagman, for the director at-large seat vacancy on the USHJA Board of Directors. The board will vote on the candidates for the position during its March 3 meeting. The election is held in accordance with USHJA Bylaws […]
While stasis and stability are often a sign of health, they can also represent spoil and stagnation. At what point do we look at the equestrian industry, specifically at the hunter discipline, and decide on which side the seesaw is swaying? Are we strongly supported by our vice-grip on tradition and history, or have we […]
A team veterinarian’s recommendation to use a commercially produced calming supplement on a horse competing at the Paris Olympic Games has led to the suspension of a Belgian rider and the country losing its fourth-place team standing in the 2024 Olympic eventing competition. According to a final decision by the Fédération Equestre International Tribunal, released […]
Horse owners are dedicated to their equine partners, often making personal sacrifices to ensure their horses are well cared for by veterinarians, farriers, and trainers. Horses are pampered with warm blankets, massages and carefully thought-out exercise programs. Regardless of the equine discipline, most owners put their horses first, before themselves, devoting enormous sums of money […]
Four-time U.S. Olympian Laura Kraut and Sandsablaze, Buddy Brown’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Games mount, have been elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted during the Hall of Fame’s Induction Gala on March 2, at the Wellington National Golf Club in Florida. At the induction, the Hall of Fame will also present […]
I can picture my seventh-grade teacher, let’s call her Mrs. Smith, with her bun wound almost as tightly as she was, wagging her finger at me, and putting on a very stern look. “Matthew! Stop throwing those beer nuts across the classroom!” I don’t remember exactly what went through my head when she told me […]
I need security cameras, I thought, peering into the depths of the partially frozen, 100-gallon trough in my front pasture. My phone glowed eerily from the bottom, a sad little submarine. It’s a real shame no one else gets to see this. Just before dusk, I’d set out to check the troughs in each of the three […]
When Jaxon Hoshaw enters the ring Saturday for the prestigious Premier Equitation Cup at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), he’ll already be a winner. The 17-year-old from Clermont, Florida, will have help offsetting his competition expenses after being named in January as the first recipient of a $10,000 scholarship from the Hannah M. Serfass Foundation—the largest […]
Ever since equine veterinarian Lori Bidwell, DVM, DACVAA, CVA, was a little girl growing up on a farm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, horse welfare has been her No. 1 priority. “Now there’s a sign hanging in my office that says, ‘We do this because we love horses,’ ” Bidwell said. “I think it’s important to […]
Let’s make a slightly delayed New Year’s resolution, horse professionals: 2025 is going to be the year that you look at your savings and retirement plans, or lack thereof, and put some actual plans in place. I know, I know, horse people never retire, we just subsist on coffee and ibuprofen and yell, “half HALT!” […]
After careful review of all nominees, the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Nominating Committee has recommended two candidates, Shelley Campf and James Hagman, for the director at-large seat vacancy on the USHJA Board of Directors. The board will vote on the candidates for the position during its March 3 meeting. The election is held in accordance with USHJA Bylaws […]
While stasis and stability are often a sign of health, they can also represent spoil and stagnation. At what point do we look at the equestrian industry, specifically at the hunter discipline, and decide on which side the seesaw is swaying? Are we strongly supported by our vice-grip on tradition and history, or have we […]
A team veterinarian’s recommendation to use a commercially produced calming supplement on a horse competing at the Paris Olympic Games has led to the suspension of a Belgian rider and the country losing its fourth-place team standing in the 2024 Olympic eventing competition. According to a final decision by the Fédération Equestre International Tribunal, released […]
