Video: Chestnut Mare Energy Reigns As Ondine D’Orleans Wins WCHR Hunter Spectacular

World Championship Hunter Rider Week at the Winter Equestrian Festival came to a peak Saturday evening at Wellington International with a win for Liza Towell Boyd of Camden, South Carolina, and Ondine D’Orleans in the $150,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular. Meghan Rawlins of Canada designed the two-round class that allowed riders to […]

Retired Veterinarian Returns To Showing After 40-Year Break

Three years ago, with his two children out on their own and his successful small animal vet practice recently sold, Mark Dorfman decided the time was right to get back into his childhood love of riding horses. Growing up in Long Island, New York, Dorfman rode with Ralph and Holly Caristo at their Glenview Stables. […]

When The Honeymoon Ends: The Reality Of Buying The Darn Farm

Last year around this time, I wrote a blog encouraging everyone to just do it: Commit to living your best life and “Buy The Darn Farm!” But these past few months, I’m feeling the winter blues down to my frozen core. I’m reflecting on how my dream of raising my family on my very own […]

Jitterbug’s Guide To Valentine’s Day Love Languages

For me, February means Mudpack Mondays and quiet, sunny afternoons at the hay feeder while all my dear therapy students are on winter break. From what I understand though, the month is considerably more challenging for Humans, who have invented something called Valentine’s Day. As near as I can figure out, this is a holiday […]

Throwback Thursday: Sandsablaze Was Buddy Brown’s Horse Of A Lifetime

Buddy Brown’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Games partner Sandsablaze has been elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, and he will be inducted along with four-time Olympian Laura Kraut during a March 2 ceremony at the Wellington National Golf Club (Florida). “Sandsablaze had a storybook career that was never meant to be and may be unequaled […]

USEF Announces Team For Wellington FEI Dressage Nations Cup CDIO3*

The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the combinations selected to represent the Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA CDIO3* during the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida, Feb. 19-23. This will be the first team outing of the 2025 competition season for the Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team, […]

Updated: Conformation To Remain Part Of The Pony Hunter Division—Just Not At WEF

Correction: Only one presidential modification regarding pony conformation classes was issued in 2024, according to the U.S. Equestrian Federation. Pony hunter conformation classes will be held at premier- and national-rated horse shows this year, after a Jan. 20 U.S. Equestrian Federation presidential modification introduced by the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association was reversed this week. However, […]

Dressage Rider And Her Erstwhile Eventer Eye Grand Prix

When Emily Donaldson went to look at Beaujolais 75 as an unbroke 3-year-old, she tried not to like him. She brought her mom along, hoping she’d call her crazy for even considering him. Instead, Donaldson’s mom told her she loved him.  “I thought, ‘Well, shoot. That’s not the answer I wanted,’ ” Donaldson recalled.  In […]

Jollybo Is Taking Grand Prix Rider Lauren Chumley On A Grand Adventure

Around Christmas, Grand Prix dressage rider Lauren Chumley received a text message from her event rider friend Meg Kepferle. “Can you go to California?” it read. “At this very moment?” was Chumley’s response. While Chumley is a dressage professional, for nearly 15 years she’s dabbled “on the dark side,” in the eventing world, competing up […]

International Court Rules Against Eric Lamaze

Retired Canadian show jumper Eric Lamaze has been suspended until 2031 after the international Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against him in a human anti-doping case initiated by the Fédération Equestre International in 2022. The case stems from Lamaze’s refusal to submit to a human drug test at a 2021 show jumping competition in the Netherlands.  […]