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Ocala, Fla.—March 27 Daniel Coyle owes his brother Jordan Coyle a debt of gratitude for his win Sunday in the $500,000 Great American Grand Prix on Ariel Grange’s Legacy. “I have to say I had a big advantage today,” Daniel said. “Yes I was third in the jump off, but Jordan had as good a […]
On Feb. 4, grand prix competitor Mavis Spencer battled her nerves and guided Georgy Maskrey-Segesman’s Gerardus to second place in the $10,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby during Desert Circuit III (California) after showing him in the high performance hunter division. Though her heart still belongs to the jumpers, the experience gave her appreciation for the […]
Ocala, Fla.—March 26 Cannon Creek’s win Saturday in the $25,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at HITS Ocala meant a little something extra to Hunt Tosh. Exactly 366 days ago the Wheeler family purchased the horse from Redfield Farm for Tosh to ride in a handshake deal, but Redfield Farm rider Cassandra Kahle asked if she […]
The Palm Beach International Equestrian Center, the longtime Wellington, Florida, home of the Winter Equestrian Festival as well as nearly 30 weeks of annual series horse shows, will now be called Wellington International. The acclaimed venue hosts the longest-running hunter/jumper horse show in the world and has welcomed thousands of riders from all 50 states […]
Raeford, N.C.—March 26 The cross-country time at the Cloud 11-Gavilan North LLC Carolina International is always hard to get, but when Will Coleman headed out today on Dondante, he didn’t even look at his watch until the penultimate fence. Dondante is huge at almost 18 hands, but along with a big step, such a big […]
Ocala, Fla.—March 25 Stella Wasserman has done her fair share of special equitation classes that riders must contest without help from a trainer, but she’s never won one. In fact, she’s never come close. “I’ve actually done a few of them on the West Coast, but funnily enough, I’ve never made it around the ring—until […]
Raeford, N.C.—March 25 Tamie Smith brought five horses to the Cloud 11-Gavilan North LLC Carolina International for her first trip to the Carolina Horse Park, but when she pulled in earlier in the week, she was almost certain she wouldn’t be running cross-country on her top horse, Mai Baum. However, after setting a Carolina dressage record of […]
Sarah Kuhn took a chance on Mr. Cash van de Start five years ago, buying him off a video from a dealer in the Czech Republic and assuming he’d be a sales horse. The gelding had other ideas. “He was honestly too spooky,” Kuhn said. “When I put him on the market, nobody would buy […]
If you’re like me, these past few years have exercised the cynical parts of your personality to an alarming degree. SafeSport suspensions are announced with depressing regularity, and there always seem to be rumblings of more to come. Questionable horsemanship gossip travels out of the barn aisle, and governance arguments flood Facebook and the forums. I’m […]