Veteran show jumper Laura Chapot has topped more than 100 grand prix classes in her career, but her victory in last weekend’s $50,000 Marshall & Sterling/Great American Insurance Group National Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida) had a special quality. Chapot, 50, Neshanic Station, New Jersey, had a simple fall last summer that […]
We’ve all heard the instructions: Sit back, stay up, lift your chest. We all know following those commands improves our balance, improves how our horses work underneath us, and helps us stay on should things go awry. That said, many of us are riding in compromised positions due to the weight or jiggle of our busts.  […]
As a companion to the cover story for our annual Yearbook issue, “Overall Horse And Eventing Person Of The Year: On Cue And Boyd Martin,” published Monday, reporter Laura Lemon shares her experience meeting On Cue and interviewing Boyd Martin at his Pennsylvania home. If you ask this hunter rider what three things I’ve learned about eventing since starting […]
Surrounded by framed photos of his sons Nox and Leo Martin and a series of him falling off at the Head of the Lake during some Kentucky CCI5*-L run, Boyd Martin gazes out his back window and says, “I’m a pretty confident person, but I would say deep down, I don’t think I’m that good, […]
Proving that neither laurels to rest upon nor advancing age have dulled them, Tokyo Olympic Games individual gold medalist Ben Maher (Great Britain) reunited with his 19-year-old, U.S.-based partner Tic Tac for a repeat win Sunday in the $140,000 Hygain Feeds Grand Prix CSI3* during Week 2 of the 2022 Winter Equestrian Festival. Maher and […]
By the time Rachel Galambos finished her cross-country run at the 2017 USEA American Eventing Championships (North Carolina) on HS Wolf, she knew something was off with the gelding. The next few months would take her on a roller coaster ride to discover exactly what was wrong and lead her down a path of misdiagnoses […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced Jan. 21 that it will be reevaluating the California hunter/jumper calendar for 2023. The board of directors voted Jan. 15 to effectively wipe away the current calendar and rebuild next year’s from scratch. “The 2023 California hunter, jumper, hunter/jumper comparable date competition calendar will be vacated,” said USEF in a statement. “Competition […]
From the moment she toured a college campus as a teenager, Sarah Coltrin knew that college life wouldn’t be for her and that she needed to work outside with horses. She’d grown up eventing in Schaumburg, Illinois, with the St. James Pony Club and trainers Erin and Kenny Dierks, but knew the life of a […]
Happy New Year, everyone! While reflecting back on my 2021 training milestones, one really stood out to me. It was a year of terrific growth for all of the horses in my training program, but making headway into the world of flying changes with Dubai was the highlight. I believe we are currently in “flying change […]
Olympic gold medalist Will Simpson is on a hot streak at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida). On Jan. 15, he won the $75,000 Stella Artois Grand Prix with Whoop De Doo. They topped a field of 39, outrunning fellow Olympic gold medalist Rodrigo Pessoa of Brazil, who finished second and third, in the jump-off. “Whoopy,” an 11-year-old bay warmblood mare (Mr. Whoopy—Double […]
Veteran show jumper Laura Chapot has topped more than 100 grand prix classes in her career, but her victory in last weekend’s $50,000 Marshall & Sterling/Great American Insurance Group National Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida) had a special quality. Chapot, 50, Neshanic Station, New Jersey, had a simple fall last summer that […]
We’ve all heard the instructions: Sit back, stay up, lift your chest. We all know following those commands improves our balance, improves how our horses work underneath us, and helps us stay on should things go awry. That said, many of us are riding in compromised positions due to the weight or jiggle of our busts.  […]
As a companion to the cover story for our annual Yearbook issue, “Overall Horse And Eventing Person Of The Year: On Cue And Boyd Martin,” published Monday, reporter Laura Lemon shares her experience meeting On Cue and interviewing Boyd Martin at his Pennsylvania home. If you ask this hunter rider what three things I’ve learned about eventing since starting […]
Surrounded by framed photos of his sons Nox and Leo Martin and a series of him falling off at the Head of the Lake during some Kentucky CCI5*-L run, Boyd Martin gazes out his back window and says, “I’m a pretty confident person, but I would say deep down, I don’t think I’m that good, […]
Proving that neither laurels to rest upon nor advancing age have dulled them, Tokyo Olympic Games individual gold medalist Ben Maher (Great Britain) reunited with his 19-year-old, U.S.-based partner Tic Tac for a repeat win Sunday in the $140,000 Hygain Feeds Grand Prix CSI3* during Week 2 of the 2022 Winter Equestrian Festival. Maher and […]
By the time Rachel Galambos finished her cross-country run at the 2017 USEA American Eventing Championships (North Carolina) on HS Wolf, she knew something was off with the gelding. The next few months would take her on a roller coaster ride to discover exactly what was wrong and lead her down a path of misdiagnoses […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced Jan. 21 that it will be reevaluating the California hunter/jumper calendar for 2023. The board of directors voted Jan. 15 to effectively wipe away the current calendar and rebuild next year’s from scratch. “The 2023 California hunter, jumper, hunter/jumper comparable date competition calendar will be vacated,” said USEF in a statement. “Competition […]
From the moment she toured a college campus as a teenager, Sarah Coltrin knew that college life wouldn’t be for her and that she needed to work outside with horses. She’d grown up eventing in Schaumburg, Illinois, with the St. James Pony Club and trainers Erin and Kenny Dierks, but knew the life of a […]
Happy New Year, everyone! While reflecting back on my 2021 training milestones, one really stood out to me. It was a year of terrific growth for all of the horses in my training program, but making headway into the world of flying changes with Dubai was the highlight. I believe we are currently in “flying change […]
Olympic gold medalist Will Simpson is on a hot streak at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida). On Jan. 15, he won the $75,000 Stella Artois Grand Prix with Whoop De Doo. They topped a field of 39, outrunning fellow Olympic gold medalist Rodrigo Pessoa of Brazil, who finished second and third, in the jump-off. “Whoopy,” an 11-year-old bay warmblood mare (Mr. Whoopy—Double […]
