This past weekend was the start of the 2022 horse show season, and it’s hard to imagine that anyone got a better picture to commemorate their 2022 debut than amateur jumper rider Christina Kemper Athens. Athens and her 10-year-old Holsteiner Colimbo LS La Silla have been showing together since August in the low amateur jumpers, […]
When Sharon Lewis was on the hunt for her next dressage horse after a six-year hiatus, she knew she wanted something young, and while looking online, Dutch Harness Horses kept coming up in her search. It took encouragement from her sister, dressage trainer Nancy Lewis Stanton, to convince Sharon the prospects she’d found online were worth seeing in […]
Rory Nichols, 18, wasn’t always an open book about her life experiences, but when she applied for West Palms Event Management’s Michael Nyuis Grant, she decided to lay it all on the line. In a heartfelt video application, the Thousand Oaks, California, teen told her story: Her father was in prison for child abuse and […]
Horses have adapted in many ways over millennia to be able to escape from predators and survive in the wild: They have long faces that house intricate structures for a strong sense of smell, skin so sensitive it will twitch when a fly touches it, and a set of some of the largest eyes in […]
Three horses at a Powhatan County, Virginia, barn have been euthanized due to the neurologic form of EHV-1. According to the Equine Disease and Communication Center, the first horse first showed symptoms on Nov. 28 and then became recumbent and was euthanized. Two additional horses tested positive and were euthanized as of Dec. 3. Two more […]
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to add information about the departure of USEF Managing Director of Eventing Jenni Autry. Erik Duvander has parted ways with the U.S. Equestrian Federation after four years as U.S. performance director of eventing. “Erik Duvander’s contract expired on November 30, 2021, and will not be renewed,” a USEF […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation board of directors met Nov. 22 and approved a series of extraordinary rule changes that went into effect Dec. 1. In addition, the board made changes to the USEF’s so-called “amateur rule.” Safety And Horse Welfare A change to GR849 will require that any human injury occurring at a licensed competition […]
Several much-anticipated changes to the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s so-called “amateur rule” went into effect Dec. 1. These modifications were passed as extraordinary rule changes at a Nov. 22 USEF board of directors meeting. They were developed largely by the USEF Amateur Task Force, a new group with members from various breeds and disciplines that was established in February. […]
On Dec. 2, U.S. show jumper McLain Ward announced that Clinta, his parter for team gold at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games (North Carolina), has been retired. “It’s with some disappointment that I have to announce that after a year of great efforts to bring Clinta back from an injury to the sport again the […]
The trial date for former Grand Prix dressage rider and trainer Michael Barisone has been pushed back by six weeks and now is scheduled to begin March 21, 2022. Barisone is accused of attempted murder in the 2019 shooting of a former student and tenant at his New Jersey farm. During a Dec. 1. court […]
This past weekend was the start of the 2022 horse show season, and it’s hard to imagine that anyone got a better picture to commemorate their 2022 debut than amateur jumper rider Christina Kemper Athens. Athens and her 10-year-old Holsteiner Colimbo LS La Silla have been showing together since August in the low amateur jumpers, […]
When Sharon Lewis was on the hunt for her next dressage horse after a six-year hiatus, she knew she wanted something young, and while looking online, Dutch Harness Horses kept coming up in her search. It took encouragement from her sister, dressage trainer Nancy Lewis Stanton, to convince Sharon the prospects she’d found online were worth seeing in […]
Rory Nichols, 18, wasn’t always an open book about her life experiences, but when she applied for West Palms Event Management’s Michael Nyuis Grant, she decided to lay it all on the line. In a heartfelt video application, the Thousand Oaks, California, teen told her story: Her father was in prison for child abuse and […]
Horses have adapted in many ways over millennia to be able to escape from predators and survive in the wild: They have long faces that house intricate structures for a strong sense of smell, skin so sensitive it will twitch when a fly touches it, and a set of some of the largest eyes in […]
Three horses at a Powhatan County, Virginia, barn have been euthanized due to the neurologic form of EHV-1. According to the Equine Disease and Communication Center, the first horse first showed symptoms on Nov. 28 and then became recumbent and was euthanized. Two additional horses tested positive and were euthanized as of Dec. 3. Two more […]
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to add information about the departure of USEF Managing Director of Eventing Jenni Autry. Erik Duvander has parted ways with the U.S. Equestrian Federation after four years as U.S. performance director of eventing. “Erik Duvander’s contract expired on November 30, 2021, and will not be renewed,” a USEF […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation board of directors met Nov. 22 and approved a series of extraordinary rule changes that went into effect Dec. 1. In addition, the board made changes to the USEF’s so-called “amateur rule.” Safety And Horse Welfare A change to GR849 will require that any human injury occurring at a licensed competition […]
Several much-anticipated changes to the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s so-called “amateur rule” went into effect Dec. 1. These modifications were passed as extraordinary rule changes at a Nov. 22 USEF board of directors meeting. They were developed largely by the USEF Amateur Task Force, a new group with members from various breeds and disciplines that was established in February. […]
On Dec. 2, U.S. show jumper McLain Ward announced that Clinta, his parter for team gold at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games (North Carolina), has been retired. “It’s with some disappointment that I have to announce that after a year of great efforts to bring Clinta back from an injury to the sport again the […]
The trial date for former Grand Prix dressage rider and trainer Michael Barisone has been pushed back by six weeks and now is scheduled to begin March 21, 2022. Barisone is accused of attempted murder in the 2019 shooting of a former student and tenant at his New Jersey farm. During a Dec. 1. court […]
