Since December, the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina, has been serving as a COVID-19 vaccine administration site. “Our local public health director from Polk County called in October and said, ‘Sharon, we know the vaccines are coming, but we don’t know when. We want to execute successfully, and we wonder if […]
Brought to you by Kickapoo Ponies and Strides Equestrian We are delighted to congratulate 158 finishers in our 2020 COTH Lose The Leathers Challenge in November. It wasn’t just the task of completing 12 rides without stirrups that was challenging; it was the late nights in the cold and dark; balancing school, work and family; and injured horses and riders. […]
Though she splits her time between Georgetown, Kentucky, and Wellington, Florida, for Havens Schatt, Ocala, Florida, will always feel like home. “I grew up in Ocala, and I went to kindergarten on [the property that is now the World Equestrian Center],” said Schatt, who runs Milestone Farm with her husband Fred Commissaire alongside their two […]
When Riley Jones first paired up with Señor Santana, she knew he would teach her a lot. But what exactly she was going to learn was yet to be determined. A petite 7-year-old, Jones had outgrown the capabilities of her first pony and was looking for her next mount. “Santana” was a green 14-hand pony who’d […]
I squealed when I saw on Twitter that Chrissy Teigen had started her “journey into the horse world,” upon her therapist’s recommendation that “I need something that I do just for me,” after suffering a miscarriage. I, too, am a mom of a very tiny human (she’s almost 3), and riding has been an absolute […]
The U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation has awarded the 2021 Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to 20-year-old dressage rider Hannah Irons of Queenstown, Maryland. Each year, the USET awards the Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to a junior/young Rider in an Olympic discipline who exemplifies the Team’s ideals of sportsmanship and horsemanship. Irons, an active member of the Discover Dressage […]
This year’s revamped U.S. Equestrian Federation Horsemastership Training Series hosted a set of 12 up-and-coming show jumpers who are on track to someday be top professionals. That focus permeated the three days of riding sessions (flat with Anne Kursinski, gymnastics with Beezie Madden, and a course critique with McLain Ward), in addition to the back-at-the-barn […]
While the Thursday qualifier for the $137,000 Wellington Regional Medical Center CSI3* Grand Prix may not have gone Beezie Madden’s way, she and Abigail Wexner’s Breitling LS rebounded to win the feature class on Saturday, Jan. 16, under the lights at Week 1 of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, no […]
The U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation has awarded the 2021 Whitney Stone Cup to Roxanne “Roxie” Trunnell of Royal Palm Beach, Florida, making her the first para-dressage rider and only the eighth dressage rider to receive the honor in its 40-year history. Currently Trunnell is ranked No. 1 in the FEI Para Dressage World Individual Ranking […]
When Murray Kessler closed out his final U.S. Equestrian Federation Annual Meeting, held virtually Jan. 13-17, as president of the federation, he looked back on the challenges and accomplishments of his four-year term. Of the eight issues he’d hoped to address, some were easy to check off the list. After introducing a low-cost fan membership, […]
Since December, the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina, has been serving as a COVID-19 vaccine administration site. “Our local public health director from Polk County called in October and said, ‘Sharon, we know the vaccines are coming, but we don’t know when. We want to execute successfully, and we wonder if […]
Brought to you by Kickapoo Ponies and Strides Equestrian We are delighted to congratulate 158 finishers in our 2020 COTH Lose The Leathers Challenge in November. It wasn’t just the task of completing 12 rides without stirrups that was challenging; it was the late nights in the cold and dark; balancing school, work and family; and injured horses and riders. […]
Though she splits her time between Georgetown, Kentucky, and Wellington, Florida, for Havens Schatt, Ocala, Florida, will always feel like home. “I grew up in Ocala, and I went to kindergarten on [the property that is now the World Equestrian Center],” said Schatt, who runs Milestone Farm with her husband Fred Commissaire alongside their two […]
When Riley Jones first paired up with Señor Santana, she knew he would teach her a lot. But what exactly she was going to learn was yet to be determined. A petite 7-year-old, Jones had outgrown the capabilities of her first pony and was looking for her next mount. “Santana” was a green 14-hand pony who’d […]
I squealed when I saw on Twitter that Chrissy Teigen had started her “journey into the horse world,” upon her therapist’s recommendation that “I need something that I do just for me,” after suffering a miscarriage. I, too, am a mom of a very tiny human (she’s almost 3), and riding has been an absolute […]
The U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation has awarded the 2021 Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to 20-year-old dressage rider Hannah Irons of Queenstown, Maryland. Each year, the USET awards the Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to a junior/young Rider in an Olympic discipline who exemplifies the Team’s ideals of sportsmanship and horsemanship. Irons, an active member of the Discover Dressage […]
This year’s revamped U.S. Equestrian Federation Horsemastership Training Series hosted a set of 12 up-and-coming show jumpers who are on track to someday be top professionals. That focus permeated the three days of riding sessions (flat with Anne Kursinski, gymnastics with Beezie Madden, and a course critique with McLain Ward), in addition to the back-at-the-barn […]
While the Thursday qualifier for the $137,000 Wellington Regional Medical Center CSI3* Grand Prix may not have gone Beezie Madden’s way, she and Abigail Wexner’s Breitling LS rebounded to win the feature class on Saturday, Jan. 16, under the lights at Week 1 of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, no […]
The U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation has awarded the 2021 Whitney Stone Cup to Roxanne “Roxie” Trunnell of Royal Palm Beach, Florida, making her the first para-dressage rider and only the eighth dressage rider to receive the honor in its 40-year history. Currently Trunnell is ranked No. 1 in the FEI Para Dressage World Individual Ranking […]
When Murray Kessler closed out his final U.S. Equestrian Federation Annual Meeting, held virtually Jan. 13-17, as president of the federation, he looked back on the challenges and accomplishments of his four-year term. Of the eight issues he’d hoped to address, some were easy to check off the list. After introducing a low-cost fan membership, […]
