Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends

Elvis is really cool, guys. He’s keen but relatively unemotional. He’s athletic, but he’s also efficient. His default answer is yes. There’s a heck of a lot to like. He also was weird about the whip when he came to me, and he had a bit of a misunderstanding about what piaffe was all about, […]

FEI Publishes Return To Competition Measures For Mainland Europe

On March 30, the Fédération Equestre Internationale published the Return To Competition measures that will allow for a safe resumption of international sport in mainland Europe on April 12 following a six-week shutdown to control the spread of the neurological form of the Equine Herpesvirus (EHV-1). The measures focus on six key areas: pre-event venue preparations by […]

Watch Why They Won: Thieme Scores His Fourth $1 Million Grand Prix

From Andre Thieme’s first canter stride aboard Chakaria there was no mistaking that he was going for the win in the Great American $1 Million Grand Prix, held March 28 at HITS Ocala in Ocala, Florida. The chestnut mare locked onto the first fence as she took large, attacking strides. The 11-year-old German Sport Horse […]

Watch Why They Won: Vale Kicks On For WEC Grand Prix Victory

If you’re the first to qualify for a grand prix jump-off, you’ve got to weigh your options. Get too gung-ho and you risk a rail. But if you go for a careful clear, there’s a good chance someone will snatch the victory away from you. If you’re later in the order you can make a […]

Back From The Brink: A Tale Of Tendon Triumph

Few things could make bankruptcy attorney Lara Gardner run up credit card debt. Fortunately for her Thoroughbred, Well Spoken, he’s one of them. Two years ago, after a short romp in the pasture at Gardner’s farm in Corvallis, Oregon, “Johann” came in with a small puncture just underneath his left hind fetlock. The next morning, […]

Lord Pizarro Euthanized After Sustaining Injury On Course At WEF

Equestrian Sport Productions management announced that an equine fatality occurred at the Winter Equestrian Festival on Sunday, March 28. The incident happened in the high junior jumper classic at approximately 11:30 a.m. in the International Arena at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida. Lord Pizarro, an 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding ridden by Ansgar Holtgers Jr. and […]

Deusser And Comeback Kid Tobago Z Win $500,000 Rolex Grand Prix In Wellington

Wellington, Fla.—March 27 Daniel Deusser’s top mount Scuderia 1918 Tobago Z spent the first half of 2020 recovering from an injury he sustained in December 2019. Deusser brought the 13-year-old Zangersheide stallion back into Fédération Equestre Internationale sport last July. And on Saturday, “Tobago” proved his return to five-star form with a win in the $500,000 Rolex Grand Prix […]

Kellerhouse And Woodford Reserve Take A Wire-To-Wire Win At Galway Downs CCI4*-S

Temecula, Calif.—March 27 After navigating a course full of what its designer, Clayton Fredericks, described as “serious angles and in-your-face-fences,” Erin Kellerhouse and Woodford Reserve maintained their wire-to-wire lead in winning the Galway Downs CCI4*-S on a 30.1. Helen Alliston and Ebay and Emilee Libby and Jakobi also crossed the finish line double clear to […]

H&M Chilli Willi Euthanized After Injury At WEF

Belgian show jumper Nicola Philippaerts’ top horse, H&M Chilli Willi, was euthanized after breaking his left foreleg on March 26 while competing in the $37,000 FEI CSI5* Bainbridge 1.45m at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida. According to a statement on the Philippaerts family website, the 13-year-old Holsteiner stallion sustained the “very complicated fracture” when he stumbled […]

Natalie Jayne And Charisma Shine In WEF Equitation Championship

Equitation riders took their turn in the International Arena at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center on Friday, March 26, in the WEF Equitation Championship during the 2021 Winter Equestrian Festival. After three technical rounds of competition, Natalie Jayne and Heritage Farm, Inc.’s Charisma took home the blue ribbon. Zayna Rizvi and Jordyn Rose Freedman’s Finnick […]