Kalispell, Mont.—July 25 James Alliston was sitting in fourth place after cross-country at Rebecca Farm on Saturday—more than a rail behind leaders Jennie Brannigan and Twilightslastgleam—so he didn’t anticipate leading the victory gallop at the conclusion of the the CCI4*-L. But when he and Paper Jam managed one of just two double-clear rounds in Sunday’s show jumping, […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team at the CHIO Aachen CCIO4*-S to be held Sept. 15-19 in Aachen, Germany. The team will be: • Will Coleman (Gordonsville, Virginia) and Off The Record, a 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding owned by the Off the Record […]
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect an additional febrile horse identified as part of the euthanized mare’s group at Sonoma Horse Park. On July 25, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced that a 6-year-old warmblood mare who was stabled July 19-24 at the Sonoma Horse Park in Petaluma, California, has tested positive […]
France’s Tom Carlile has withdrawn his Tokyo Olympic horse Birmane from the competition due to the 10-year-old mare tying up at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park. Carlile will be replaced by France’s traveling reserves Karim Florent Laghouag and Triton Fontaine. Laghouag, who competed on France’s gold medal team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, will […]
When you’re Charlotte Dujardin, collector of gold medals and holder of world records, and you’ve won everything it’s possible to win in the sport with one amazing horse, what’s left to do after that horse retires? Start some new prospects up the ranks, of course. Great Britain’s Dujardin has debuted several horses at Grand Prix […]
Just a few months after joining the hunter ranks, former equitation horse Princeton took home the 3’6” overall grand championship from the Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championships—West at the Sonoma Horse Park in Sonoma, California. Ridden by Stella Wasserman, of Beverly Hills, California, Princeton claimed the overall grand champion tricolor and the Monarch International Perpetual […]
Tokyo—July 25 As the second day of the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Olympics finished, one thing remained clear: Germany is dominating the dressage. German riders fill out three of the top five individual slots, earning first, second and fourth, and the country easily topped the qualifying class with a combined score of 7911.5 over […]
The two remaining members of Australia’s Olympic Show Jumping Team will be allowed to compete as individuals after the team’s third member was removed last week in the wake of a positive drug test. The Australian Olympic Committee announced Friday it had been informed that Edwina Tops-Alexander and Katie Laurie will be permitted to compete in the […]
Tokyo—July 24 At the end of Day 1 of the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the results look like nearly every expert predicted: A German pair is sitting in first place. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera’s score of 84.37% vaulted them to the top of the leaderboard. “I [had] a lot of […]
Dressage is the first equestrian discipline to take place at the Tokyo Olympic Games, beginning with the horse inspection on July 23. Read on for all you need to know as the competition officially kicks off. THE COMPETITION DATES: July 24-25, 27-28 MEDAL DAYS: Team—Tuesday, July 27 Individual—Wednesday, July 28 THE VENUE: Equestrian Park in […]
Kalispell, Mont.—July 25 James Alliston was sitting in fourth place after cross-country at Rebecca Farm on Saturday—more than a rail behind leaders Jennie Brannigan and Twilightslastgleam—so he didn’t anticipate leading the victory gallop at the conclusion of the the CCI4*-L. But when he and Paper Jam managed one of just two double-clear rounds in Sunday’s show jumping, […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team at the CHIO Aachen CCIO4*-S to be held Sept. 15-19 in Aachen, Germany. The team will be: • Will Coleman (Gordonsville, Virginia) and Off The Record, a 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding owned by the Off the Record […]
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect an additional febrile horse identified as part of the euthanized mare’s group at Sonoma Horse Park. On July 25, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced that a 6-year-old warmblood mare who was stabled July 19-24 at the Sonoma Horse Park in Petaluma, California, has tested positive […]
France’s Tom Carlile has withdrawn his Tokyo Olympic horse Birmane from the competition due to the 10-year-old mare tying up at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park. Carlile will be replaced by France’s traveling reserves Karim Florent Laghouag and Triton Fontaine. Laghouag, who competed on France’s gold medal team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, will […]
When you’re Charlotte Dujardin, collector of gold medals and holder of world records, and you’ve won everything it’s possible to win in the sport with one amazing horse, what’s left to do after that horse retires? Start some new prospects up the ranks, of course. Great Britain’s Dujardin has debuted several horses at Grand Prix […]
Just a few months after joining the hunter ranks, former equitation horse Princeton took home the 3’6” overall grand championship from the Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championships—West at the Sonoma Horse Park in Sonoma, California. Ridden by Stella Wasserman, of Beverly Hills, California, Princeton claimed the overall grand champion tricolor and the Monarch International Perpetual […]
Tokyo—July 25 As the second day of the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Olympics finished, one thing remained clear: Germany is dominating the dressage. German riders fill out three of the top five individual slots, earning first, second and fourth, and the country easily topped the qualifying class with a combined score of 7911.5 over […]
The two remaining members of Australia’s Olympic Show Jumping Team will be allowed to compete as individuals after the team’s third member was removed last week in the wake of a positive drug test. The Australian Olympic Committee announced Friday it had been informed that Edwina Tops-Alexander and Katie Laurie will be permitted to compete in the […]
Tokyo—July 24 At the end of Day 1 of the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the results look like nearly every expert predicted: A German pair is sitting in first place. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera’s score of 84.37% vaulted them to the top of the leaderboard. “I [had] a lot of […]
Dressage is the first equestrian discipline to take place at the Tokyo Olympic Games, beginning with the horse inspection on July 23. Read on for all you need to know as the competition officially kicks off. THE COMPETITION DATES: July 24-25, 27-28 MEDAL DAYS: Team—Tuesday, July 27 Individual—Wednesday, July 28 THE VENUE: Equestrian Park in […]
