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. […]
Editor’s note: This article describes suicidal ideation. A little more than two decades ago, Emily Williams was at the top of her game. She had jumped her first grand prix by 14. In 1999, her last junior year, she was named the Chronicle’s Hunter Horseman of the Year after becoming the 11th rider to win […]
JJ Torano topped a field of 75 equitation riders of the nation’s top junior athletes to win the 2025 WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship on Saturday at the World Equestrian Center-Ocala (Florida). The prestigious competition featured a three-phase format, with the possibility of a work-off. Torano, 14, of Wellington, Florida, secured the championship title—and the keys […]
Horse owners are dedicated to their equine partners, often making personal sacrifices to ensure their horses are well cared for by veterinarians, farriers, and trainers. Horses are pampered with warm blankets, massages and carefully thought-out exercise programs. Regardless of the equine discipline, most owners put their horses first, before themselves, devoting enormous sums of money […]
Four-time U.S. Olympian Laura Kraut and Sandsablaze, Buddy Brown’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Games mount, have been elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted during the Hall of Fame’s Induction Gala on March 2, at the Wellington National Golf Club in Florida. At the induction, the Hall of Fame will also present […]
I can picture my seventh-grade teacher, let’s call her Mrs. Smith, with her bun wound almost as tightly as she was, wagging her finger at me, and putting on a very stern look. “Matthew! Stop throwing those beer nuts across the classroom!” I don’t remember exactly what went through my head when she told me […]
I need security cameras, I thought, peering into the depths of the partially frozen, 100-gallon trough in my front pasture. My phone glowed eerily from the bottom, a sad little submarine. It’s a real shame no one else gets to see this. Just before dusk, I’d set out to check the troughs in each of the three […]
When Jaxon Hoshaw enters the ring Saturday for the prestigious Premier Equitation Cup at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), he’ll already be a winner. The 17-year-old from Clermont, Florida, will have help offsetting his competition expenses after being named in January as the first recipient of a $10,000 scholarship from the Hannah M. Serfass Foundation—the largest […]
Ever since equine veterinarian Lori Bidwell, DVM, DACVAA, CVA, was a little girl growing up on a farm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, horse welfare has been her No. 1 priority. “Now there’s a sign hanging in my office that says, ‘We do this because we love horses,’ ” Bidwell said. “I think it’s important to […]
Let’s make a slightly delayed New Year’s resolution, horse professionals: 2025 is going to be the year that you look at your savings and retirement plans, or lack thereof, and put some actual plans in place. I know, I know, horse people never retire, we just subsist on coffee and ibuprofen and yell, “half HALT!” […]
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. […]
Editor’s note: This article describes suicidal ideation. A little more than two decades ago, Emily Williams was at the top of her game. She had jumped her first grand prix by 14. In 1999, her last junior year, she was named the Chronicle’s Hunter Horseman of the Year after becoming the 11th rider to win […]
JJ Torano topped a field of 75 equitation riders of the nation’s top junior athletes to win the 2025 WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship on Saturday at the World Equestrian Center-Ocala (Florida). The prestigious competition featured a three-phase format, with the possibility of a work-off. Torano, 14, of Wellington, Florida, secured the championship title—and the keys […]
Horse owners are dedicated to their equine partners, often making personal sacrifices to ensure their horses are well cared for by veterinarians, farriers, and trainers. Horses are pampered with warm blankets, massages and carefully thought-out exercise programs. Regardless of the equine discipline, most owners put their horses first, before themselves, devoting enormous sums of money […]
Four-time U.S. Olympian Laura Kraut and Sandsablaze, Buddy Brown’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Games mount, have been elected to the Show Jumping Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted during the Hall of Fame’s Induction Gala on March 2, at the Wellington National Golf Club in Florida. At the induction, the Hall of Fame will also present […]
I can picture my seventh-grade teacher, let’s call her Mrs. Smith, with her bun wound almost as tightly as she was, wagging her finger at me, and putting on a very stern look. “Matthew! Stop throwing those beer nuts across the classroom!” I don’t remember exactly what went through my head when she told me […]
I need security cameras, I thought, peering into the depths of the partially frozen, 100-gallon trough in my front pasture. My phone glowed eerily from the bottom, a sad little submarine. It’s a real shame no one else gets to see this. Just before dusk, I’d set out to check the troughs in each of the three […]
When Jaxon Hoshaw enters the ring Saturday for the prestigious Premier Equitation Cup at World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), he’ll already be a winner. The 17-year-old from Clermont, Florida, will have help offsetting his competition expenses after being named in January as the first recipient of a $10,000 scholarship from the Hannah M. Serfass Foundation—the largest […]
Ever since equine veterinarian Lori Bidwell, DVM, DACVAA, CVA, was a little girl growing up on a farm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, horse welfare has been her No. 1 priority. “Now there’s a sign hanging in my office that says, ‘We do this because we love horses,’ ” Bidwell said. “I think it’s important to […]
Let’s make a slightly delayed New Year’s resolution, horse professionals: 2025 is going to be the year that you look at your savings and retirement plans, or lack thereof, and put some actual plans in place. I know, I know, horse people never retire, we just subsist on coffee and ibuprofen and yell, “half HALT!” […]
