Elite show jumping courses and horses look dramatically different than they did a few decades ago. We asked some of the world’s most respected professionals about the correlation. Here’s Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum’s answer. Without a doubt, the breeding has changed over the years, even [as recently as when] I came to Germany in 1991. One can […]
An “A” Pony Club graduate and five-star eventer, Sara Kozumplik Murphy bases out of Overlook Farm in Berryville, Virginia, and Mardanza Farms in Micanopy, Florida. Now 41, Murphy first competed at Rolex Kentucky in 1999 aboard As You Like It, her off-track Pony Club mount, and the pair went on to complete Blenheim, Bramham, Burghley […]
I don’t often work with very, very beginner riders. That sounds snobby, and I don’t mean it to; I don’t have lesson horses, and the folks who seek me out for lessons with their own horses tend to have at least a few years of riding under their belt before they want a specialized dressage […]
Pfun had an incredible jump from the start. Will Faudree first saw it in 2010, when the 3-year-old gelding arrived at Bobby Costello’s Southern Pines, North Carolina, farm, jumped out of a dirt pen, took two strides across the driveway, and popped into a field to get grass. “Teddy” had scope, but not everyone saw […]
If you had told me I would spend the majority of 2020 sidelined and unable to ride, I would have said, “I want no part of that.” Last year was the most challenging year of my life, but it also was a transformative year, as I learned what it takes to stay strong through adversity […]
When my phone buzzed, and I saw that the barn was calling me—unexpectedly, first thing in the morning—I knew my day was about to take a bad turn. Sure enough, the wonderful woman I board with was calling to tell me that my horse, Ned, had come in from his nighttime turnout with a swollen […]
With a pandemic raging across the world by March and most of the major competitions we cover every year canceled because of that, 2020 certainly caused, to put it lightly, disruption to our editorial calendar. But there wasn’t a void of content on COTH.com as conversations over race in horse sports, how to behave responsibly […]
U.S. Equestrian Federation and World Equestrian Center—Ocala officials released a joint statement on Dec. 30 announcing they will work together so that WEC can host USEF-sanctioned competitions. “USEF and WEC agree that it is in the best interest of the sport for them to work collaboratively,” said the statement. “Formulating this plan will require some […]
While the writers at The Chronicle of the Horse always aim to produce impactful stories, we sometimes have especially meaningful encounters as we try to do justice to a person’s struggle or triumph or partnership with our words. Here are a few of the stories we wrote in 2020 that made a lasting impression. “The Taboo Topic Of […]
There’s some stuff to catch you up on. Grab a glass of wine. OK. So the last time we chatted about my personal horsey life, I had just half drunkenly (sort of) purchased a lovely little 3.5-year-old hunter prospect off the interwebs, sight unseen. To make it happen both money and time-wise, I had also […]
Elite show jumping courses and horses look dramatically different than they did a few decades ago. We asked some of the world’s most respected professionals about the correlation. Here’s Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum’s answer. Without a doubt, the breeding has changed over the years, even [as recently as when] I came to Germany in 1991. One can […]
An “A” Pony Club graduate and five-star eventer, Sara Kozumplik Murphy bases out of Overlook Farm in Berryville, Virginia, and Mardanza Farms in Micanopy, Florida. Now 41, Murphy first competed at Rolex Kentucky in 1999 aboard As You Like It, her off-track Pony Club mount, and the pair went on to complete Blenheim, Bramham, Burghley […]
I don’t often work with very, very beginner riders. That sounds snobby, and I don’t mean it to; I don’t have lesson horses, and the folks who seek me out for lessons with their own horses tend to have at least a few years of riding under their belt before they want a specialized dressage […]
Pfun had an incredible jump from the start. Will Faudree first saw it in 2010, when the 3-year-old gelding arrived at Bobby Costello’s Southern Pines, North Carolina, farm, jumped out of a dirt pen, took two strides across the driveway, and popped into a field to get grass. “Teddy” had scope, but not everyone saw […]
If you had told me I would spend the majority of 2020 sidelined and unable to ride, I would have said, “I want no part of that.” Last year was the most challenging year of my life, but it also was a transformative year, as I learned what it takes to stay strong through adversity […]
When my phone buzzed, and I saw that the barn was calling me—unexpectedly, first thing in the morning—I knew my day was about to take a bad turn. Sure enough, the wonderful woman I board with was calling to tell me that my horse, Ned, had come in from his nighttime turnout with a swollen […]
With a pandemic raging across the world by March and most of the major competitions we cover every year canceled because of that, 2020 certainly caused, to put it lightly, disruption to our editorial calendar. But there wasn’t a void of content on COTH.com as conversations over race in horse sports, how to behave responsibly […]
U.S. Equestrian Federation and World Equestrian Center—Ocala officials released a joint statement on Dec. 30 announcing they will work together so that WEC can host USEF-sanctioned competitions. “USEF and WEC agree that it is in the best interest of the sport for them to work collaboratively,” said the statement. “Formulating this plan will require some […]
While the writers at The Chronicle of the Horse always aim to produce impactful stories, we sometimes have especially meaningful encounters as we try to do justice to a person’s struggle or triumph or partnership with our words. Here are a few of the stories we wrote in 2020 that made a lasting impression. “The Taboo Topic Of […]
There’s some stuff to catch you up on. Grab a glass of wine. OK. So the last time we chatted about my personal horsey life, I had just half drunkenly (sort of) purchased a lovely little 3.5-year-old hunter prospect off the interwebs, sight unseen. To make it happen both money and time-wise, I had also […]
