Tokyo —July 22 Everyone knows how you get to Carnegie Hall. But how do you get to the Tokyo Olympics if you’re a journalist (me) trying to go cover the best horses in the world? The answer: Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork. Over the past few months and weeks, I’ve filled out more forms, sent more emails […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to create two different sets of hunter and jumper National and Zone Horse of the Year awards. USEF President Tom O’Mara and CEO Bill Moroney laid out that proposal, along with a series of other suggestions addressing hunter/jumper competitions, during a July 20 USEF Competition Task […]
Australia will no longer have a show jumping team at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Jamie Kermond, who was selected with Yandoo Oaks Constellation, was removed from the team Wednesday after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine last month. The team’s nominated traveling reserve withdrew before traveling to Tokyo, meaning Australia now has only two athletes […]
You couldn’t wipe the smile off 16-year-old Alexis Halbert’s face as she walked out of the ring with a fourth-place ribbon in the Opportunity Walk-Trot-Canter Hunter class at Tryon Summer 2. For Halbert, who sustained a severe spinal injury at the same North Carolina showgrounds less than a year ago, this wasn’t just a ribbon; […]
For the second year in a row the World Equestrian Center—Ocala will run a winter circuit in Ocala, Florida, sanctioned by the National Snaffle Bit Association. While dates for the series are still being finalized, World Equestrian Center CEO Roby Roberts confirmed that next year’s winter circuit will be similar to this year’s and that […]
On October 10, 1964, a young Japanese student named Yoshinori Sakai raced up the steps of Japan’s National Stadium, clutching the blazing Olympic torch in his hands. As a clamorous crowd of 83,000 people applauded, Sakai stopped in front of the Olympic cauldron and stood still, marveling at the immensity of the moment. He beamed, […]
When renowned French speedster Julien Epaillard is leading in a jump-off, most riders who come after him would know they’re riding for second. But Kent Farrington isn’t most riders. Last to go in a 12-horse jump-off, Farrington took advantage of Gazelle’s foot speed to edge out Epaillard and win the $238,171 Hubside Jumping St. Tropez- […]
It all started when a schooling show in central Texas told Katie Wetteland “no.” After learning about mules while attending Virginia Military Institute, Wetteland got one of her own, named Mjolnir The Longear, and trained him to jump. She let show management know she planned to bring him to the Texas show, but they informed […]
British Eventing announced Monday that a change has been made to its Olympic Eventing Team roster: Piggy March and Brookfield Inocent will not travel to Tokyo as the team reserve, being replaced by Ros Canter and Allstar B. “After careful consideration and full collaboration between Performance Director Richard Waygood and the owners of Brookfield Inocent, Alison […]
When the British dressage team for the Tokyo Olympic Games was announced earlier this month, it surprised many that Charlotte Dujardin was selected not with her most experienced Grand Prix horse, Mount St John Freestyle, but with the younger, less decorated Gio. “I chose ‘Pumpkin’ because I felt it would suit him a bit more […]
Tokyo —July 22 Everyone knows how you get to Carnegie Hall. But how do you get to the Tokyo Olympics if you’re a journalist (me) trying to go cover the best horses in the world? The answer: Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork. Over the past few months and weeks, I’ve filled out more forms, sent more emails […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to create two different sets of hunter and jumper National and Zone Horse of the Year awards. USEF President Tom O’Mara and CEO Bill Moroney laid out that proposal, along with a series of other suggestions addressing hunter/jumper competitions, during a July 20 USEF Competition Task […]
Australia will no longer have a show jumping team at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Jamie Kermond, who was selected with Yandoo Oaks Constellation, was removed from the team Wednesday after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine last month. The team’s nominated traveling reserve withdrew before traveling to Tokyo, meaning Australia now has only two athletes […]
You couldn’t wipe the smile off 16-year-old Alexis Halbert’s face as she walked out of the ring with a fourth-place ribbon in the Opportunity Walk-Trot-Canter Hunter class at Tryon Summer 2. For Halbert, who sustained a severe spinal injury at the same North Carolina showgrounds less than a year ago, this wasn’t just a ribbon; […]
For the second year in a row the World Equestrian Center—Ocala will run a winter circuit in Ocala, Florida, sanctioned by the National Snaffle Bit Association. While dates for the series are still being finalized, World Equestrian Center CEO Roby Roberts confirmed that next year’s winter circuit will be similar to this year’s and that […]
On October 10, 1964, a young Japanese student named Yoshinori Sakai raced up the steps of Japan’s National Stadium, clutching the blazing Olympic torch in his hands. As a clamorous crowd of 83,000 people applauded, Sakai stopped in front of the Olympic cauldron and stood still, marveling at the immensity of the moment. He beamed, […]
When renowned French speedster Julien Epaillard is leading in a jump-off, most riders who come after him would know they’re riding for second. But Kent Farrington isn’t most riders. Last to go in a 12-horse jump-off, Farrington took advantage of Gazelle’s foot speed to edge out Epaillard and win the $238,171 Hubside Jumping St. Tropez- […]
It all started when a schooling show in central Texas told Katie Wetteland “no.” After learning about mules while attending Virginia Military Institute, Wetteland got one of her own, named Mjolnir The Longear, and trained him to jump. She let show management know she planned to bring him to the Texas show, but they informed […]
British Eventing announced Monday that a change has been made to its Olympic Eventing Team roster: Piggy March and Brookfield Inocent will not travel to Tokyo as the team reserve, being replaced by Ros Canter and Allstar B. “After careful consideration and full collaboration between Performance Director Richard Waygood and the owners of Brookfield Inocent, Alison […]
When the British dressage team for the Tokyo Olympic Games was announced earlier this month, it surprised many that Charlotte Dujardin was selected not with her most experienced Grand Prix horse, Mount St John Freestyle, but with the younger, less decorated Gio. “I chose ‘Pumpkin’ because I felt it would suit him a bit more […]
