Tokyo—July 27 At the end of her test, instead of an ebullient fist pump or celebratory slap of Sanceo’s neck, Sabine Schut-Kery quietly patted her horse, then walked out of the ring wiping her eyes as her teammates cheered and hugged on the sidelines. She didn’t know it yet, but Schut-Kery, anchor rider for the […]
After three days of sitting around in my hotel room, working from the bed and very much enjoying my 15-minute walks to get food as the stir-crazy became real, I finally got to escape to the venue Sunday night to see what I came to see: horses! (Though I can’t say I was in complete […]
The Spanish dressage team has announced the first horse substitution—a new procedure this year—for the Tokyo Olympic Games. José Antonio Garcia Mena piloted Sorento 15 to a 69.14% in the Grand Prix, but he will ride his traveling alternate Divina Royal in the Grand Prix Special instead. The Fédération Equestre Internationale substitution rule, Article 609, […]
The Aiken Horse Park Foundation board of directors has announced the establishment of The Annie Goodwin Rising Star Fund in memory of the event rider. “In the spirit of Goodwin’s vision and legacy, the Aiken Horse Park Foundation is establishing the Annie Goodwin Rising Star Fund, to foster, support and develop Aiken’s young equestrians who embody Goodwin’s character and […]
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France’s Tom Carlile has withdrawn his Tokyo Olympic horse Birmane from the competition due to the 10-year-old mare tying up at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park.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 27 At the end of her test, instead of an ebullient fist pump or celebratory slap of Sanceo’s neck, Sabine Schut-Kery quietly patted her horse, then walked out of the ring wiping her eyes as her teammates cheered and hugged on the sidelines. She didn’t know it yet, but Schut-Kery, anchor rider for the […]
After three days of sitting around in my hotel room, working from the bed and very much enjoying my 15-minute walks to get food as the stir-crazy became real, I finally got to escape to the venue Sunday night to see what I came to see: horses! (Though I can’t say I was in complete […]
The Spanish dressage team has announced the first horse substitution—a new procedure this year—for the Tokyo Olympic Games. José Antonio Garcia Mena piloted Sorento 15 to a 69.14% in the Grand Prix, but he will ride his traveling alternate Divina Royal in the Grand Prix Special instead. The Fédération Equestre Internationale substitution rule, Article 609, […]
The Aiken Horse Park Foundation board of directors has announced the establishment of The Annie Goodwin Rising Star Fund in memory of the event rider. “In the spirit of Goodwin’s vision and legacy, the Aiken Horse Park Foundation is establishing the Annie Goodwin Rising Star Fund, to foster, support and develop Aiken’s young equestrians who embody Goodwin’s character and […]
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 […]
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 […]
