I’ve been considering whether to write this for months now, and I know what I’m about to say is likely to be wildly unpopular. However, the time has come that I feel the need to say it. The general revolt against SafeSport is breathtaking, and I am profoundly disappointed in our sport. We live at […]
Maggie Kehring, Woodside, California, came forward publicly after her former trainer Rich Fellers and his wife Shelley Fellers were added to the U.S. Center For SafeSport temporary suspension list, due to “allegations of misconduct” on Feb. 9. Both Rich, 61, and Shelley, 54, also have a no contact directive from the Center. They run Rich Fellers Stables LLC out […]
International show jumping champion Rich Fellers, Oregon City, Oregon, was added to the U.S. Center For SafeSport’s suspension list on Feb. 9. His wife, jumper rider Shelley Fellers, was also added. Their violations are listed as “allegations of misconduct“ and the action taken as “temporary suspension” with a no contact directive. In 2012, Rich won the […]
Name: Nanna Ericson Age: 36 Occupation: Senior machine translation program manager, LinkedIn Nanna Ericson is living her best life. Not because of her successful 10-year career with LinkedIn, her happy marriage, her American passport or her Bay area address. The Swedish-born event rider feels like she’s finally made it because there’s a goat in her […]
Greetings from Wellington. Things are going well. That’s a scary sentence to write, because a) things can go Extremely Not Well at the drop of a hat on a myriad of fronts, but also b) deadly virus killing people and careers and livelihoods makes me sound like I’m fiddling while Rome burns, talking about how […]
HOPE: one word, four letters and so much more. For 46 Palm Beach County charities, the feeling of hope shifted into a reality on Feb. 6 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida. This year’s Great Charity Challenge pivoted to a blend of in-person competition for riders and virtual celebration for charities […]
“The harder you work, the luckier you get,” is a favorite motto for Mavis Spencer, 30, who’s spent the past 12 years building her career in show jumping. When Spencer decided in 2009 to make a profession out of her childhood passion, her parents, actress Alfre Woodard and screenwriter Roderick Spencer, said she would need […]
Amongst the towering warmbloods showing off their paces at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in 2020, a sturdy little Morgan stood out. The chestnut gelding may not have had the European pedigree of his competitors, but that didn’t stop Quietude Seneca Rocks from placing first and second in his first Intermediaire I tests with rider […]
On Feb. 2, the organizers of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event announced they were canceling the 2021 CCI5*-L for financial reasons. “Without spectators, the financial requirements to host the CCI 5*-L are too great for our organization after a year without income,” read a statement on the Kentucky Three-Day website. Now there is the […]
It was close to 20 years ago when I first rode in Jimmy Wofford’s famed (infamous) Hell Week. Back then, it sounded like a fun idea—six straight days of longe lessons during a week in January, where your horse had no reins and your saddle had no stirrups, and you partnered with a trusted rider […]
I’ve been considering whether to write this for months now, and I know what I’m about to say is likely to be wildly unpopular. However, the time has come that I feel the need to say it. The general revolt against SafeSport is breathtaking, and I am profoundly disappointed in our sport. We live at […]
Maggie Kehring, Woodside, California, came forward publicly after her former trainer Rich Fellers and his wife Shelley Fellers were added to the U.S. Center For SafeSport temporary suspension list, due to “allegations of misconduct” on Feb. 9. Both Rich, 61, and Shelley, 54, also have a no contact directive from the Center. They run Rich Fellers Stables LLC out […]
International show jumping champion Rich Fellers, Oregon City, Oregon, was added to the U.S. Center For SafeSport’s suspension list on Feb. 9. His wife, jumper rider Shelley Fellers, was also added. Their violations are listed as “allegations of misconduct“ and the action taken as “temporary suspension” with a no contact directive. In 2012, Rich won the […]
Name: Nanna Ericson Age: 36 Occupation: Senior machine translation program manager, LinkedIn Nanna Ericson is living her best life. Not because of her successful 10-year career with LinkedIn, her happy marriage, her American passport or her Bay area address. The Swedish-born event rider feels like she’s finally made it because there’s a goat in her […]
Greetings from Wellington. Things are going well. That’s a scary sentence to write, because a) things can go Extremely Not Well at the drop of a hat on a myriad of fronts, but also b) deadly virus killing people and careers and livelihoods makes me sound like I’m fiddling while Rome burns, talking about how […]
HOPE: one word, four letters and so much more. For 46 Palm Beach County charities, the feeling of hope shifted into a reality on Feb. 6 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida. This year’s Great Charity Challenge pivoted to a blend of in-person competition for riders and virtual celebration for charities […]
“The harder you work, the luckier you get,” is a favorite motto for Mavis Spencer, 30, who’s spent the past 12 years building her career in show jumping. When Spencer decided in 2009 to make a profession out of her childhood passion, her parents, actress Alfre Woodard and screenwriter Roderick Spencer, said she would need […]
Amongst the towering warmbloods showing off their paces at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in 2020, a sturdy little Morgan stood out. The chestnut gelding may not have had the European pedigree of his competitors, but that didn’t stop Quietude Seneca Rocks from placing first and second in his first Intermediaire I tests with rider […]
On Feb. 2, the organizers of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event announced they were canceling the 2021 CCI5*-L for financial reasons. “Without spectators, the financial requirements to host the CCI 5*-L are too great for our organization after a year without income,” read a statement on the Kentucky Three-Day website. Now there is the […]
It was close to 20 years ago when I first rode in Jimmy Wofford’s famed (infamous) Hell Week. Back then, it sounded like a fun idea—six straight days of longe lessons during a week in January, where your horse had no reins and your saddle had no stirrups, and you partnered with a trusted rider […]
