In 2021, John Korenak announced that he and his wife, Beth Korenak, would be retiring at the end of the season and selling Irish Fox Stables in Wentzville, Missouri, their home and business since 1986. John’s retirement will leave a hole in the Missouri hunter/jumper community, but he also leaves a legacy of positive influence on […]
When Skylar Wireman won the World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida) Premier Equitation Cup Championship earlier this month, the 17-year-old high school student received a new car. For her rounds aboard Heritage Farm’s equitation champion Charisma (Stakkato—Cassini I), Wireman earned a Ford Explorer. When she’s riding and schooling horses at home in Bonsall, California, at her mother Shayne Wireman’s farm, […]
Olympic veteran Beezie Madden and media executive and fundraiser Mason Phelps Jr. have been elected for induction into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame. They will be honored, together with last year’s nominees—Olympic rider Margie Engle and McLain Ward’s two-time gold medal Olympic mount, Sapphire—during the Hall of Fame’s induction dinner March 6 at the […]
Four more horses have been confirmed with EHV-1 at Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, the California Department of Food and Agriculture reported late Monday, Feb. 21, bringing the total number of cases to 12. One of the new cases was within the index barn where the disease first was reported on Feb. 11, […]
Every few years, trainer Nerice Gulino has a student who goes beyond expectations, working harder than anyone. At Gulino’s Foxwoode Hunt Club in Holly, Michigan, Clara Kissling has been that student lately. She takes on the less fancy horses, focuses on experiences rather than ribbons at horse shows, grooms and helps around the barn, and […]
Geoffrey Hesslink scored the biggest win of his young career Feb. 19 in Wellington, Florida, topping a field of 35 of the country’s best hunter combinations to win the $100,000 USHJA/WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular aboard Mon Tresor. The Shelburne, Vermont, resident only recently started riding the 10-year-old Holsteiner (Nekton—Odessa XIV) owned by Little […]
Quimby is no stranger to the winner’s circle. The 11-year-old bay Holsteiner gelding (Q Verdi— Zanna I) owned by John & Stephanie Ingram LLC has won some of the largest equitation championships in the country, including the 2021 Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final (Pennsylvania) and the 2021 Palm Beach International Academy North American Junior […]
An EHV-1 outbreak in California worsened over the weekend, with one horse euthanized and eight total cases now confirmed at Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, including three horses with neurological symptoms. Two shows planned for this week, at DIHP and at Los Angeles Equestrian Center, have been canceled in response. The situation evolved rapidly […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 20 Bertram Allen had his work cut out for him if he wanted to win the $140,000 IDA Development CSI3* Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Fifteen horse-and-rider combinations had qualified for the jump-off, and Olympic gold medalist Ben Maher of Great Britain had set a time of 40.92 seconds with Faltic HB. […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 19 Every year when showing at the Winter Equestrian Festival, a young Geoffrey Hesslink had a standing commitment on Saturday night of Week 6. Dubbed hunter week, the show sends the international jumpers across the street to the Adequan Global Dressage Festival and lets the hunters take center stage. The featured class is […]