When Gabbriel “Brie” Frigm was 14, she made a lifetime commitment to a camp horse. Now 40, she’s gone from a pony-mad teenager who bought herself a horse to a professional and mom, but she’s kept her word for 26 years and counting. Frigm’s parents sent her to Camp Hebron in Halifax, Pennsylvania, as a young […]
Devon, Pa.—June 2 Somewhere in McLain Ward’s house in Brewster, New York, there’s a photo of him doing the leadline class in mud at Devon—but, no, he didn’t win. “I wasn’t from the Main Line, so, no,” Ward joked about not being local to Devon’s particular section of the Philadelphia suburbs. “I know how it works around […]
Devon, Pa.—June 2 In the grandstands along the railing of the Dixon Oval, there’s a box bearing the name plaque “Wheeler.” Kenny Wheeler and his wife, Sallie Wheeler, were fixtures at the Devon Horse Show for decades, competing in the hunter divisions, the hunter breeding classes and in the Saddlebred section; the show grounds’ second competition […]
It’s hard to think of two hobbies more diametrically opposed to each other than the quietly controlled artistry of dressage and the adrenalized, engine-roaring excitement of car racing. Heather Richards, however, loves them both. A career in land conservation keeps her traveling throughout the Mid-Atlantic region while she pursues her upper-level goals in the dressage ring on the […]
Eight-time Olympic eventer J. Michael Plumb is recovering in the hospital after falling while mounting a horse at his home in Southern Pines, North Carolina, on May 26. Plumb, 82, incurred a fractured femur that required surgery. Prior to surgery, his doctors determined he’d need a pacemaker. He underwent surgery for the pacemaker on May […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Wednesday announced the athlete-and-horse combinations that will represent The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup the Netherlands at CHIO Rotterdam and the FEI Dressage Nations Cup Germany at CHIO Aachen. Additionally, two combinations will compete as individuals in the CDI4* at Aachen. The teams will be led […]
Devon, Pa.—June 1 Crossing the threshold of the “Where Champions Meet,” Hunt Tosh tried to keep it in perspective. Sure, he was riding Cannon Creek, a horse who—just in a year’s time—earned quite a track record for being just that: a champion. But as his pilot, Tosh tried his best to shove that notion out of his head. […]
It is June, and in New England that means one thing and one thing only: Competition season is in full swing! (And that the bugs are out in full force, so apparently spring in New England means two things.) I readily will admit that when it comes to competition, I am not wildly superstitious but, […]
Devon, Pa.—May 31 As Carleton Brooks led his charge Only Always out of the Dixon Oval, Nick Haness draped the Devon blue-lined cooler over his left hand and with his right laid a congratulatory hand on Brooks’ back. The two Californians, who traveled over 2,500 miles to get to the Devon Horse Show, had done it: They earned […]
Devon, Pa.—May 31 With Jimmy Torano wrapping her arm around his and taking her hand, Cassandra Kahle walked into the Dixon Oval beaming Tuesday morning. She hadn’t set foot on any show grounds since suffering a traumatic brain injury in a January fall at HITS Ocala (Florida)—but she made her return at Devon to watch Redfield Farm’s horses […]
When Gabbriel “Brie” Frigm was 14, she made a lifetime commitment to a camp horse. Now 40, she’s gone from a pony-mad teenager who bought herself a horse to a professional and mom, but she’s kept her word for 26 years and counting. Frigm’s parents sent her to Camp Hebron in Halifax, Pennsylvania, as a young […]
Devon, Pa.—June 2 Somewhere in McLain Ward’s house in Brewster, New York, there’s a photo of him doing the leadline class in mud at Devon—but, no, he didn’t win. “I wasn’t from the Main Line, so, no,” Ward joked about not being local to Devon’s particular section of the Philadelphia suburbs. “I know how it works around […]
Devon, Pa.—June 2 In the grandstands along the railing of the Dixon Oval, there’s a box bearing the name plaque “Wheeler.” Kenny Wheeler and his wife, Sallie Wheeler, were fixtures at the Devon Horse Show for decades, competing in the hunter divisions, the hunter breeding classes and in the Saddlebred section; the show grounds’ second competition […]
It’s hard to think of two hobbies more diametrically opposed to each other than the quietly controlled artistry of dressage and the adrenalized, engine-roaring excitement of car racing. Heather Richards, however, loves them both. A career in land conservation keeps her traveling throughout the Mid-Atlantic region while she pursues her upper-level goals in the dressage ring on the […]
Eight-time Olympic eventer J. Michael Plumb is recovering in the hospital after falling while mounting a horse at his home in Southern Pines, North Carolina, on May 26. Plumb, 82, incurred a fractured femur that required surgery. Prior to surgery, his doctors determined he’d need a pacemaker. He underwent surgery for the pacemaker on May […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Wednesday announced the athlete-and-horse combinations that will represent The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup the Netherlands at CHIO Rotterdam and the FEI Dressage Nations Cup Germany at CHIO Aachen. Additionally, two combinations will compete as individuals in the CDI4* at Aachen. The teams will be led […]
Devon, Pa.—June 1 Crossing the threshold of the “Where Champions Meet,” Hunt Tosh tried to keep it in perspective. Sure, he was riding Cannon Creek, a horse who—just in a year’s time—earned quite a track record for being just that: a champion. But as his pilot, Tosh tried his best to shove that notion out of his head. […]
It is June, and in New England that means one thing and one thing only: Competition season is in full swing! (And that the bugs are out in full force, so apparently spring in New England means two things.) I readily will admit that when it comes to competition, I am not wildly superstitious but, […]
Devon, Pa.—May 31 As Carleton Brooks led his charge Only Always out of the Dixon Oval, Nick Haness draped the Devon blue-lined cooler over his left hand and with his right laid a congratulatory hand on Brooks’ back. The two Californians, who traveled over 2,500 miles to get to the Devon Horse Show, had done it: They earned […]
Devon, Pa.—May 31 With Jimmy Torano wrapping her arm around his and taking her hand, Cassandra Kahle walked into the Dixon Oval beaming Tuesday morning. She hadn’t set foot on any show grounds since suffering a traumatic brain injury in a January fall at HITS Ocala (Florida)—but she made her return at Devon to watch Redfield Farm’s horses […]
