Mattie Worsham couldn’t believe her luck the day her trainer suggested she hop aboard Scout. The brown warmblood of unrecorded breeding held superstar status, with the likes of John French, Archie Cox and Liza Boyd competing him at the most prestigious shows. “I can still remember very clearly the first day when I was training […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the list of athletes who have been invited to the 2021 Emerging Athlete Eventing 25 Assessment Sessions. The USEF Emerging Athlete Eventing 25 Program offers athletes 25 years of age and under access to coaching and instruction, high intensity training sessions, and continued mentorship to further support the development of […]
Perhaps old dogs can’t learn new tricks, but it turns out former Grand Prix dressage stars most certainly can. Since Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl retired Unee BB, who finished third three times in the FEI World Cup Final, she’s used his extra free time for fun, new activities. “He has a very nice retirement, and […]
Ever had a show jumping round that ended with the ring crew playing a game of pick-up sticks? Eventers often discuss how to know when to call it a day on cross-country, but sometimes they shrug off multiple rails in show jumping: “Oh, he just knows they fall down.” A rule change proposal presented at […]
On Friday, Dec. 4, during the 2020 USHJA Virtual Annual Meeting, presented by Equicore, the newly formed USHJA Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Committee hosted a free webinar to discuss fostering an inclusive and open culture in equestrian sport, identify opportunities for betterment, and to detail the committee’s action plan. In a collective statement from the USHJA […]
What constitutes an amateur has long been contested in equestrian sports, and defining what is and isn’t allowed has just grown more complicated in the age of social media. At this year’s U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Annual Meeting, which is being held virtually, there are two rule change proposals to GR1306, the so-called “Amateur Rule,” […]
After U.S. Equestrian Federation officials granted just a fraction of the show date licenses requested by the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida, due to a mileage rule conflict with HITS Ocala, and then followed that up by withdrawing all sanctioned horse show dates for the 12-week WEC winter circuit when a non-USEF affiliated governing […]
The U.S. Eventing Association’s Rider of the Year award was presented for the first time in 1960. In the 60 years since, the Windy Acres Trophy has been awarded to only five women – Suzanne Cove in 1962, Lee Troup in 1964, Mary Ann Tauskey in 1978, Torrance Watkins in 1980, and Karen Stives in […]
The U.S. Dressage Federation has announced Suppenkasper, the 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned by Akiko Yamazaki’s Four Winds Farm LLC and ridden by Steffen Peters of San Diego, as 2020 Adequan/USDF Grand Prix Horse of the Year. Suppenkasper’s median score of 76.14 percent made him the top horse in the United States competing at this […]
A little more than four years ago, I matched on a dating app with a funny Indian engineer with a big nose, holding a bottle of Zima—the disgusting Sprite-and-rubbing-alcohol-esque garbage that teenagers got drunk on in the 90s—in his profile picture. Our first date was at a local pizza place, and I left thinking that […]
Mattie Worsham couldn’t believe her luck the day her trainer suggested she hop aboard Scout. The brown warmblood of unrecorded breeding held superstar status, with the likes of John French, Archie Cox and Liza Boyd competing him at the most prestigious shows. “I can still remember very clearly the first day when I was training […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the list of athletes who have been invited to the 2021 Emerging Athlete Eventing 25 Assessment Sessions. The USEF Emerging Athlete Eventing 25 Program offers athletes 25 years of age and under access to coaching and instruction, high intensity training sessions, and continued mentorship to further support the development of […]
Perhaps old dogs can’t learn new tricks, but it turns out former Grand Prix dressage stars most certainly can. Since Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl retired Unee BB, who finished third three times in the FEI World Cup Final, she’s used his extra free time for fun, new activities. “He has a very nice retirement, and […]
Ever had a show jumping round that ended with the ring crew playing a game of pick-up sticks? Eventers often discuss how to know when to call it a day on cross-country, but sometimes they shrug off multiple rails in show jumping: “Oh, he just knows they fall down.” A rule change proposal presented at […]
On Friday, Dec. 4, during the 2020 USHJA Virtual Annual Meeting, presented by Equicore, the newly formed USHJA Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Committee hosted a free webinar to discuss fostering an inclusive and open culture in equestrian sport, identify opportunities for betterment, and to detail the committee’s action plan. In a collective statement from the USHJA […]
What constitutes an amateur has long been contested in equestrian sports, and defining what is and isn’t allowed has just grown more complicated in the age of social media. At this year’s U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Annual Meeting, which is being held virtually, there are two rule change proposals to GR1306, the so-called “Amateur Rule,” […]
After U.S. Equestrian Federation officials granted just a fraction of the show date licenses requested by the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida, due to a mileage rule conflict with HITS Ocala, and then followed that up by withdrawing all sanctioned horse show dates for the 12-week WEC winter circuit when a non-USEF affiliated governing […]
The U.S. Eventing Association’s Rider of the Year award was presented for the first time in 1960. In the 60 years since, the Windy Acres Trophy has been awarded to only five women – Suzanne Cove in 1962, Lee Troup in 1964, Mary Ann Tauskey in 1978, Torrance Watkins in 1980, and Karen Stives in […]
The U.S. Dressage Federation has announced Suppenkasper, the 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned by Akiko Yamazaki’s Four Winds Farm LLC and ridden by Steffen Peters of San Diego, as 2020 Adequan/USDF Grand Prix Horse of the Year. Suppenkasper’s median score of 76.14 percent made him the top horse in the United States competing at this […]
A little more than four years ago, I matched on a dating app with a funny Indian engineer with a big nose, holding a bottle of Zima—the disgusting Sprite-and-rubbing-alcohol-esque garbage that teenagers got drunk on in the 90s—in his profile picture. Our first date was at a local pizza place, and I left thinking that […]
