The annual USEF Horsemastership Training Series began Friday with a flatwork session taught by Olympic show jumper Anne Kursinski in which she emphasized the importance of dressage work for show jumpers, and the importance of patience in training and communicating with horses. Twelve riders were invited to participate in the three-day clinic, which runs Jan. […]
Robert Dover on Thursday kicked off his signature event for promising young dressage riders, the Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week, by diving straight into dressage theory and the training scale while citing colorful examples to illustrate his talking points. He talked about how a rider’s hand on the outside rein should harness and recycle the […]
When you’re in the business of bringing along young horses, part of the plan is that they sell. Valerie Vizcarrondo Pride had lots of promising young event horses that she’d trained and sold along, but it had been a long time since she’d had a horse in her barn that she could ride at the upper […]
This article was updated Jan. 5, 2022, to reflect Kraut’s participation in the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games (North Carolina) and 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The horse that took Laura Kraut to the next level in grand prix classes and her first international championships wasn’t a fancy import. It was a quirky off-the-track Thoroughbred named Simba […]
Starting in 2023, ASPCA Maclay Regionals will be optional for competitors seeking to attend ASPCA Maclay Finals. That’s one of the many changes to the 2022 and 2023 ASPCA Maclay Finals qualifying criteria released Tuesday by the National Horse Show (Kentucky), which hosts the Finals. The changes are being made in response to input from […]
Back in July 2021, I wrote about my horse-shopping struggles in “What the Heck is Going On In The Horse Market Right Now?” Now I’ve finally found a horse (and I love him!), but my search took more than six months and was very stressful. Looking back on my horse-shopping journey provides useful insights—and some thoughts on […]
In honor of Howard Simpson receiving the U.S. Equestrian Federation Lifetime Achievement Award, we are republishing this profile that first appeared in the Aug. 5, 2013, issue of the Chronicle of the Horse. This article is running in its original format, however some facts and names have changed in the eight years since it originally appeared. The […]
I took you all through the insanity of the past few months in my last blog. Now join me on the past few weeks: our trip to our winter location outside Wellington, Florida. This is, I believe, my 10th consecutive winter in Welly-World, so I’m not a rookie. But this year is different on a […]
As Ines Ritter watched her mustang Reno kick up his heels and run off, she got up from the arena dirt, dusted herself off and wondered what she’d gotten herself into. The petite 5’3” Ritter was an accomplished rider, having grown up vaulting in Germany, then doing dressage and show jumping on smaller horses, but […]
A return to a more normal show season in 2021 meant a return to traveling and covering those competitions in person for our Chronicle staff. What follows are some of our favorite moments captured from around the country, and as far away as Tokyo, during the year that was. Usually when I’m holding a camera […]
The annual USEF Horsemastership Training Series began Friday with a flatwork session taught by Olympic show jumper Anne Kursinski in which she emphasized the importance of dressage work for show jumpers, and the importance of patience in training and communicating with horses. Twelve riders were invited to participate in the three-day clinic, which runs Jan. […]
Robert Dover on Thursday kicked off his signature event for promising young dressage riders, the Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week, by diving straight into dressage theory and the training scale while citing colorful examples to illustrate his talking points. He talked about how a rider’s hand on the outside rein should harness and recycle the […]
When you’re in the business of bringing along young horses, part of the plan is that they sell. Valerie Vizcarrondo Pride had lots of promising young event horses that she’d trained and sold along, but it had been a long time since she’d had a horse in her barn that she could ride at the upper […]
This article was updated Jan. 5, 2022, to reflect Kraut’s participation in the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games (North Carolina) and 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The horse that took Laura Kraut to the next level in grand prix classes and her first international championships wasn’t a fancy import. It was a quirky off-the-track Thoroughbred named Simba […]
Starting in 2023, ASPCA Maclay Regionals will be optional for competitors seeking to attend ASPCA Maclay Finals. That’s one of the many changes to the 2022 and 2023 ASPCA Maclay Finals qualifying criteria released Tuesday by the National Horse Show (Kentucky), which hosts the Finals. The changes are being made in response to input from […]
Back in July 2021, I wrote about my horse-shopping struggles in “What the Heck is Going On In The Horse Market Right Now?” Now I’ve finally found a horse (and I love him!), but my search took more than six months and was very stressful. Looking back on my horse-shopping journey provides useful insights—and some thoughts on […]
In honor of Howard Simpson receiving the U.S. Equestrian Federation Lifetime Achievement Award, we are republishing this profile that first appeared in the Aug. 5, 2013, issue of the Chronicle of the Horse. This article is running in its original format, however some facts and names have changed in the eight years since it originally appeared. The […]
I took you all through the insanity of the past few months in my last blog. Now join me on the past few weeks: our trip to our winter location outside Wellington, Florida. This is, I believe, my 10th consecutive winter in Welly-World, so I’m not a rookie. But this year is different on a […]
As Ines Ritter watched her mustang Reno kick up his heels and run off, she got up from the arena dirt, dusted herself off and wondered what she’d gotten herself into. The petite 5’3” Ritter was an accomplished rider, having grown up vaulting in Germany, then doing dressage and show jumping on smaller horses, but […]
A return to a more normal show season in 2021 meant a return to traveling and covering those competitions in person for our Chronicle staff. What follows are some of our favorite moments captured from around the country, and as far away as Tokyo, during the year that was. Usually when I’m holding a camera […]
