The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Friday announced the members of its new Eventing Elite Program Task Force, created to help restructure management of the sport at the high performance level. On Dec. 2, 2021, USEF announced it did not renew the contracts of U.S. Performance Director Erik Duvander and USEF Managing Director of Eventing Jenni Autry, a move that […]
Naples, Fla. – Jan. 13 Olympic show jumper Laura Kraut was named the 2021 International Equestrian of the Year and leading hunter rider Hunt Tosh was named National Equestrian of the Year on Thursday, Jan. 13 at the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s annual Pegasus Awards Dinner Celebration, held as part of the USEF Annual Meeting in […]
Our columnist gets real about what it takes to run an eventing business. This article first appeared in the June 19 & 26, 2017, issue of The Chronicle of the Horse. I see a lot of young people come in and out of this sport. Some of them are very good competitors, and some of them are average. Interestingly, […]
No one who knows Senobio Cruz was surprised when he was awarded the David Peterson Perpetual Trophy at the 2021 Capital Challenge Horse Show (Maryland). The trophy is awarded by the WCHR Committee each year to a person who “exemplifies dedication and commitment to the care and well-being of horses,” and Cruz does exactly that. […]
Olympic gold medalist Ludger Beerbaum is in the media spotlight and on the defensive after German broadcaster RTL published an exposé Tuesday claiming the famed show jumper uses abusive training practices. The story from RTL Extra includes video footage of a rider, allegedly Beerbaum, schooling horses over small fences while a ground person standing next to […]
We don’t talk enough about safety in farriery and the necessary precautions required for farriers to work effectively and with the least risk. Farriers should communicate with horse owners and barn managers about safety issues because many of them really do want to improve situations; they just don’t know how. To begin, we have to […]
They say: If you want to make the gods laugh, tell them your plans. I say: If you want to make them guffaw, tell them your life-long dream, then taunt them by writing about it. I can almost hear them guffawing down here in Ocala (and I’m pretty sure the bits of thunder I’ve heard […]
In an unusual event that kicks off “Saturday Night Lights” at the Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida), the women yet again proved unbeatable in the $75,000 Battle of the Sexes, a three-round jumper competition that includes a speed round, a relay race and match race where riders from each team competed simultaneously over mirror-image courses. It […]
Pirouettes were in focus Saturday for young riders participating in the annual Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week, as many asked clinicians for advice on improving the difficult movement. Clinicians Olivia LaGoy-Weltz, Jan Ebeling and Sabine Schut-Kery each came up with a different approach for helping their young student improve during the sessions at the Adequan […]
Action in the USEF Horsemastership Training Series moved to the jumper ring over the weekend, with a gymnastics session Saturday led by Lauren Hough and a coursework session Sunday with Laura Kraut. Kraut kicked off her session at Equestrian Village in Wellington, Florida, with a pep talk—and some perspective—for the 12 participating young riders just […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Friday announced the members of its new Eventing Elite Program Task Force, created to help restructure management of the sport at the high performance level. On Dec. 2, 2021, USEF announced it did not renew the contracts of U.S. Performance Director Erik Duvander and USEF Managing Director of Eventing Jenni Autry, a move that […]
Naples, Fla. – Jan. 13 Olympic show jumper Laura Kraut was named the 2021 International Equestrian of the Year and leading hunter rider Hunt Tosh was named National Equestrian of the Year on Thursday, Jan. 13 at the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s annual Pegasus Awards Dinner Celebration, held as part of the USEF Annual Meeting in […]
Our columnist gets real about what it takes to run an eventing business. This article first appeared in the June 19 & 26, 2017, issue of The Chronicle of the Horse. I see a lot of young people come in and out of this sport. Some of them are very good competitors, and some of them are average. Interestingly, […]
No one who knows Senobio Cruz was surprised when he was awarded the David Peterson Perpetual Trophy at the 2021 Capital Challenge Horse Show (Maryland). The trophy is awarded by the WCHR Committee each year to a person who “exemplifies dedication and commitment to the care and well-being of horses,” and Cruz does exactly that. […]
Olympic gold medalist Ludger Beerbaum is in the media spotlight and on the defensive after German broadcaster RTL published an exposé Tuesday claiming the famed show jumper uses abusive training practices. The story from RTL Extra includes video footage of a rider, allegedly Beerbaum, schooling horses over small fences while a ground person standing next to […]
We don’t talk enough about safety in farriery and the necessary precautions required for farriers to work effectively and with the least risk. Farriers should communicate with horse owners and barn managers about safety issues because many of them really do want to improve situations; they just don’t know how. To begin, we have to […]
They say: If you want to make the gods laugh, tell them your plans. I say: If you want to make them guffaw, tell them your life-long dream, then taunt them by writing about it. I can almost hear them guffawing down here in Ocala (and I’m pretty sure the bits of thunder I’ve heard […]
In an unusual event that kicks off “Saturday Night Lights” at the Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida), the women yet again proved unbeatable in the $75,000 Battle of the Sexes, a three-round jumper competition that includes a speed round, a relay race and match race where riders from each team competed simultaneously over mirror-image courses. It […]
Pirouettes were in focus Saturday for young riders participating in the annual Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week, as many asked clinicians for advice on improving the difficult movement. Clinicians Olivia LaGoy-Weltz, Jan Ebeling and Sabine Schut-Kery each came up with a different approach for helping their young student improve during the sessions at the Adequan […]
Action in the USEF Horsemastership Training Series moved to the jumper ring over the weekend, with a gymnastics session Saturday led by Lauren Hough and a coursework session Sunday with Laura Kraut. Kraut kicked off her session at Equestrian Village in Wellington, Florida, with a pep talk—and some perspective—for the 12 participating young riders just […]
