Kim Lennox has always had a thing for draft crosses. In dressage, she knows that makes her an outlier. “The first question I get whenever I ride with a clinician is, ‘OK, what is he?’ ” Lennox said of her Georgian Grande, Count Darby Grande. “So, I tell them he’s a cross between a Shire […]
In a lot of ways Jay Robinson was your average competitive collegiate rider. He excelled in his dramatic writing program and in the saddle, competing in intermediate flat and open fences and regularly winning ribbons. But the barn had a special meaning for him: It was a safe environment where he could fully express himself […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation is pleased to announce MARS Equestrian as the title sponsor of the Tryon International Three-Day Event, as well as Buckeye Nutrition as title sponsor of the 2020 USEF Eventing CCI4*-L National Championship set to take place at Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) in Mill Spring, North Carolina, from November 12-15, 2020. The […]
With the Oakland, California, landscape setting the backdrop, film director Yoram Savion brought a modern Pony Express to life in “Ride Out to Vote,” an equestrian video that aims to encourage voter turnout for today’s presidential election. “This year has been such a challenge for everybody being quarantined with the shelter-in-place orders,” said Savion, 35, an Oakland native. […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 2 When you’ve come so close to your goal of winning a major equitation final, it can be easy to feel frustrated when it doesn’t come to fruition. But Dominic Gibbs kept trying, and finally, in the last championship of the 2020 season, he was victorious in the ASPCA Maclay Final. Gibbs was second […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 1 After 254 other riders and 282 rounds, Dominic Gibbs felt like Jay Gatsby grasping his fingertips out to that green light, except instead of in the West and East Eggs of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination he found himself looking into the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park awaiting his final test […]
Lexington, Va. — Nov. 1 Caroline Martin added two more championship[ titles to her winning week, bringing the total to four. She started off winning the Dutta Corp. USEA Young Event Horse-East Coast Championships in the 4-year-old division on Wednesday and the 5-year-old A division on Thursday. Then she wrapped up a banner trip to the […]
Lexington, Ky.—Oct. 31 There were no wild gallops down to a big oxer. No turns that would’ve left those watching gasping as the gray horse turned in places few would’ve thought possible. In fact, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think that Devin Ryan and Eddie Blue were out for a schooling round. Their […]
Temecula, Calif. – Nov. 1 Boyd Martin had only competed once at Galway Downs, many years ago and, by his own account, “I did terrible.” After clear show jumping rounds in the CCI4*-L today secured the win on Luke 140 and third on Long Island T, Martin has a far more favorable impression to replace […]
New course designer Clayton Fredericks started working with Galway Downs this summer with the mandate of making things harder. Although yesterday’s cross-country did not change the top rung of the four-, three- and two-star leaderboards, there is evidence of mission accomplished in the standings below that and in riders’ reports. Boyd Martin and his newer horse Luke 140 maintain […]
Kim Lennox has always had a thing for draft crosses. In dressage, she knows that makes her an outlier. “The first question I get whenever I ride with a clinician is, ‘OK, what is he?’ ” Lennox said of her Georgian Grande, Count Darby Grande. “So, I tell them he’s a cross between a Shire […]
In a lot of ways Jay Robinson was your average competitive collegiate rider. He excelled in his dramatic writing program and in the saddle, competing in intermediate flat and open fences and regularly winning ribbons. But the barn had a special meaning for him: It was a safe environment where he could fully express himself […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation is pleased to announce MARS Equestrian as the title sponsor of the Tryon International Three-Day Event, as well as Buckeye Nutrition as title sponsor of the 2020 USEF Eventing CCI4*-L National Championship set to take place at Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) in Mill Spring, North Carolina, from November 12-15, 2020. The […]
With the Oakland, California, landscape setting the backdrop, film director Yoram Savion brought a modern Pony Express to life in “Ride Out to Vote,” an equestrian video that aims to encourage voter turnout for today’s presidential election. “This year has been such a challenge for everybody being quarantined with the shelter-in-place orders,” said Savion, 35, an Oakland native. […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 2 When you’ve come so close to your goal of winning a major equitation final, it can be easy to feel frustrated when it doesn’t come to fruition. But Dominic Gibbs kept trying, and finally, in the last championship of the 2020 season, he was victorious in the ASPCA Maclay Final. Gibbs was second […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 1 After 254 other riders and 282 rounds, Dominic Gibbs felt like Jay Gatsby grasping his fingertips out to that green light, except instead of in the West and East Eggs of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination he found himself looking into the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park awaiting his final test […]
Lexington, Va. — Nov. 1 Caroline Martin added two more championship[ titles to her winning week, bringing the total to four. She started off winning the Dutta Corp. USEA Young Event Horse-East Coast Championships in the 4-year-old division on Wednesday and the 5-year-old A division on Thursday. Then she wrapped up a banner trip to the […]
Lexington, Ky.—Oct. 31 There were no wild gallops down to a big oxer. No turns that would’ve left those watching gasping as the gray horse turned in places few would’ve thought possible. In fact, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think that Devin Ryan and Eddie Blue were out for a schooling round. Their […]
Temecula, Calif. – Nov. 1 Boyd Martin had only competed once at Galway Downs, many years ago and, by his own account, “I did terrible.” After clear show jumping rounds in the CCI4*-L today secured the win on Luke 140 and third on Long Island T, Martin has a far more favorable impression to replace […]
New course designer Clayton Fredericks started working with Galway Downs this summer with the mandate of making things harder. Although yesterday’s cross-country did not change the top rung of the four-, three- and two-star leaderboards, there is evidence of mission accomplished in the standings below that and in riders’ reports. Boyd Martin and his newer horse Luke 140 maintain […]
