When I was 11 or 12, I briefly owned a pretty gray mare. She was wildly hormonal and perpetually yellow, and ultimately, for reasons unrelated to her gender and color, we wound up selling her to find something a little more kid friendly. I swore up and down that forever thereafter I would only have […]
As we were organizing tack and equipment at the start of the 2004 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Kim Meier told me it had been 20 years since her first time competing there. I smiled and said, “and we’re using all that same tack and equipment this weekend!” It was a joke, but it was 90 percent […]
Pinpointing the exact moment Jessica von Bredow-Werndl took over the dressage world is a difficult task—but an argument can be made for the 2021 German Championships in Balve. At that early June show, she and TSF Dalera BB bested the then World No. 1 combination of Isabell Werth and Bella Rose 2 in the Grand […]
The first time Sinead Halpin Maynard sat on I-Quid J, she knew that he was the horse for her. Never mind that she was eight months pregnant. Never mind that he wasn’t in the budget. She arranged a vetting and decided to figure out the details later. She had called Sharon White about a different […]
After 22 years of hosting and organizing the Copper Meadows Horse Trials on the outskirts of Ramona, California, the Hoffos family has decided to stop holding recognized competitions on their 65-acre farm, the U.S. Eventing Association announced Monday. “It is with sadness, but also a bit of relief, that we have decided to cancel the Copper […]
COVID-19 changed my world in many ways—like it changed everyone’s world—but one of them was in expanding my personal comfort in buying horses sight unseen. I knew this was a thing people did, but until 2020, I really couldn’t have imagined doing it myself. And then the world shut down, and traveling became a major hassle, […]
The organizing committee of the Majestic Oaks Ocala Horse Trials (Florida) reported May 14 that No Limits, Oops, a 16-year-old Arabian-warmblood gelding ridden by Aline Briot in the training rider division, experienced a fall at fence 17 on the cross-country course. The horse received immediate veterinary attention at the fence and was euthanized onsite. Briot […]
Boyd Martin claimed an emotional win aboard Fedarman B on a final score of 29.0 at the Tryon Spring International CCI4*-L, held May 11-15 in Mill Spring, North Carolina. He and the gelding added nothing to their dressage score to move up from second after dressage. In reserve Canada’s Colleen Loach was the highest-ranked international rider, […]
Over the weekend, the Pratoni del Vivaro Federal Equestrian Center in Rocca di Papa, Italy, hosted a CCIO4*-S that served simultaneously as the first leg of the FEI Eventing Nations Cup 2022 series, the Italian national eventing championship and the test event for the upcoming FEI Eventing World Championships. Along with kicking off the Nations […]
Hanging in Cindy Screnci’s home are signs that read, “Everything happens for a reason,” and “Just Believe.” She’s used these mottos to power through challenges, including a broken ankle and subsequent infection that left her with limited use of her left leg. But she’s also allowed the accident to open a new world of possibilities. […]
When I was 11 or 12, I briefly owned a pretty gray mare. She was wildly hormonal and perpetually yellow, and ultimately, for reasons unrelated to her gender and color, we wound up selling her to find something a little more kid friendly. I swore up and down that forever thereafter I would only have […]
As we were organizing tack and equipment at the start of the 2004 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Kim Meier told me it had been 20 years since her first time competing there. I smiled and said, “and we’re using all that same tack and equipment this weekend!” It was a joke, but it was 90 percent […]
Pinpointing the exact moment Jessica von Bredow-Werndl took over the dressage world is a difficult task—but an argument can be made for the 2021 German Championships in Balve. At that early June show, she and TSF Dalera BB bested the then World No. 1 combination of Isabell Werth and Bella Rose 2 in the Grand […]
The first time Sinead Halpin Maynard sat on I-Quid J, she knew that he was the horse for her. Never mind that she was eight months pregnant. Never mind that he wasn’t in the budget. She arranged a vetting and decided to figure out the details later. She had called Sharon White about a different […]
After 22 years of hosting and organizing the Copper Meadows Horse Trials on the outskirts of Ramona, California, the Hoffos family has decided to stop holding recognized competitions on their 65-acre farm, the U.S. Eventing Association announced Monday. “It is with sadness, but also a bit of relief, that we have decided to cancel the Copper […]
COVID-19 changed my world in many ways—like it changed everyone’s world—but one of them was in expanding my personal comfort in buying horses sight unseen. I knew this was a thing people did, but until 2020, I really couldn’t have imagined doing it myself. And then the world shut down, and traveling became a major hassle, […]
The organizing committee of the Majestic Oaks Ocala Horse Trials (Florida) reported May 14 that No Limits, Oops, a 16-year-old Arabian-warmblood gelding ridden by Aline Briot in the training rider division, experienced a fall at fence 17 on the cross-country course. The horse received immediate veterinary attention at the fence and was euthanized onsite. Briot […]
Boyd Martin claimed an emotional win aboard Fedarman B on a final score of 29.0 at the Tryon Spring International CCI4*-L, held May 11-15 in Mill Spring, North Carolina. He and the gelding added nothing to their dressage score to move up from second after dressage. In reserve Canada’s Colleen Loach was the highest-ranked international rider, […]
Over the weekend, the Pratoni del Vivaro Federal Equestrian Center in Rocca di Papa, Italy, hosted a CCIO4*-S that served simultaneously as the first leg of the FEI Eventing Nations Cup 2022 series, the Italian national eventing championship and the test event for the upcoming FEI Eventing World Championships. Along with kicking off the Nations […]
Hanging in Cindy Screnci’s home are signs that read, “Everything happens for a reason,” and “Just Believe.” She’s used these mottos to power through challenges, including a broken ankle and subsequent infection that left her with limited use of her left leg. But she’s also allowed the accident to open a new world of possibilities. […]
