In 2017, Louise Persson left her grooming days behind and became the barn manager at Canadian Olympian Tiffany Foster’s Little Creek Equestrian operation, where she oversees 20 horses and six grooms. Born in Sweden, Persson, 33, studied grooming in school and worked for several Swedish riders before leaving home at 19 to groom for Beat […]
The U.S Eventing Association held its year-end awards ceremony virtually on Jan. 8 to honor national award winners, present grants and announce other appreciation awards. The night’s top honor, the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, was presented to Jacqueline B. Mars. Mars has supported the careers of Karen and David O’Connor, Hannah Sue Burnett, Lauren Nicholson and […]
Brought to you by Kickapoo Ponies and Strides Equestrian. When amateur rider Liz Quinlan joined the Chronicle’s Lose The Leathers Facebook group, she knew completing the challenge’s required 12 rides within the month of November might not be possible. Quinlan, 61, has a congenital defect called pancreas divisum, which causes chronic and intermittent acute episodes […]
The Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association board of director members convened virtually Jan. 6-8 for their bi-annual meeting. Among the tallied votes on multiple topics, the decision was determined to cancel the 2021 IHSA postseason, specifically Hunter Seat Zone Finals, Western Semi-Finals and the National Championship Horse Show, due to COVID-19. “With the ongoing pandemic and […]
No matter whether you’re practicing piaffe and passage or perfecting your 20-meter circle, dressage always comes back to fundamentals. As the 2021 U.S. Equestrian Robert Dover Horsemanship Clinic Week kicked off, Dover took the time to remind participants of these basic tenets of the sport. 1. Our job is not to make the horse think […]
The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation has awarded the Connaught Grant to Will Faudree, and his mount, Mama’s Magic Way, a 10-year-old Hanoverian gelding owned by Jennifer Mosing. Each year, the USET administers up to $25,000 to a CCI1* or CCI2* horse in the U.S. that is seen as a potential candidate to represent […]
An Italian business professor on Twitter suggests that being forced to conduct much of our lives online is making us sick. The constant video calls and Zoom meetings are draining us because they go against our brain’s need for boundaries: here versus not there. “It’s easier being in each other’s presence, or in each other’s […]
Language is by far the most powerful tool at our disposal as a species. The ability to communicate complex ideas through words not only broadens our horizons, but it also brings our ideas into being. There is a fascinating episode of an NPR show called Radiolab that goes into great detail on this point, but […]
Danash’s Northern Tempest is not hard to find at the Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida). She is quite literally spotted. The 7-year-old Friesian-Appaloosa (Danash K—Chief’s Bold Angel) stands out from the bays, grays and blacks traditionally found in the hunter ring. But owner Laura Reece knows “Dani’s” coloring is not her only defining quality. “Dani is […]
Name: Amanda Braun Age: 36 Occupation: Student Leaving the emergency room in April of 2018, Amanda Braun knew something had to change. It was the third time she’d fallen off cross-country in 12 months, the third time she’d been rushed to the hospital, and the third time her husband, Eric Braun, and their two kids […]
In 2017, Louise Persson left her grooming days behind and became the barn manager at Canadian Olympian Tiffany Foster’s Little Creek Equestrian operation, where she oversees 20 horses and six grooms. Born in Sweden, Persson, 33, studied grooming in school and worked for several Swedish riders before leaving home at 19 to groom for Beat […]
The U.S Eventing Association held its year-end awards ceremony virtually on Jan. 8 to honor national award winners, present grants and announce other appreciation awards. The night’s top honor, the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, was presented to Jacqueline B. Mars. Mars has supported the careers of Karen and David O’Connor, Hannah Sue Burnett, Lauren Nicholson and […]
Brought to you by Kickapoo Ponies and Strides Equestrian. When amateur rider Liz Quinlan joined the Chronicle’s Lose The Leathers Facebook group, she knew completing the challenge’s required 12 rides within the month of November might not be possible. Quinlan, 61, has a congenital defect called pancreas divisum, which causes chronic and intermittent acute episodes […]
The Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association board of director members convened virtually Jan. 6-8 for their bi-annual meeting. Among the tallied votes on multiple topics, the decision was determined to cancel the 2021 IHSA postseason, specifically Hunter Seat Zone Finals, Western Semi-Finals and the National Championship Horse Show, due to COVID-19. “With the ongoing pandemic and […]
No matter whether you’re practicing piaffe and passage or perfecting your 20-meter circle, dressage always comes back to fundamentals. As the 2021 U.S. Equestrian Robert Dover Horsemanship Clinic Week kicked off, Dover took the time to remind participants of these basic tenets of the sport. 1. Our job is not to make the horse think […]
The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation has awarded the Connaught Grant to Will Faudree, and his mount, Mama’s Magic Way, a 10-year-old Hanoverian gelding owned by Jennifer Mosing. Each year, the USET administers up to $25,000 to a CCI1* or CCI2* horse in the U.S. that is seen as a potential candidate to represent […]
An Italian business professor on Twitter suggests that being forced to conduct much of our lives online is making us sick. The constant video calls and Zoom meetings are draining us because they go against our brain’s need for boundaries: here versus not there. “It’s easier being in each other’s presence, or in each other’s […]
Language is by far the most powerful tool at our disposal as a species. The ability to communicate complex ideas through words not only broadens our horizons, but it also brings our ideas into being. There is a fascinating episode of an NPR show called Radiolab that goes into great detail on this point, but […]
Danash’s Northern Tempest is not hard to find at the Winter Equestrian Festival (Florida). She is quite literally spotted. The 7-year-old Friesian-Appaloosa (Danash K—Chief’s Bold Angel) stands out from the bays, grays and blacks traditionally found in the hunter ring. But owner Laura Reece knows “Dani’s” coloring is not her only defining quality. “Dani is […]
Name: Amanda Braun Age: 36 Occupation: Student Leaving the emergency room in April of 2018, Amanda Braun knew something had to change. It was the third time she’d fallen off cross-country in 12 months, the third time she’d been rushed to the hospital, and the third time her husband, Eric Braun, and their two kids […]
