The 2020 Washington International Equitation Final begins today. The hunter phase will go at 12:30 p.m., and I go 21st in the order. Then the jumper phase and work-off will go on Saturday in the stadium. I will be doing my horse Davide, whom I rode in the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final (North […]
Hanna Dolan got her first taste of horses at a local Arabian barn. After tagging along for her cousin’s riding lessons, Dolan caught the horse bug and spent the next three years showing Arabians in hunter pleasure classes. While it’s an unusual start for an aspiring hunter seat equitation rider, Dolan’s broad education has only […]
Pau, France—Oct. 23 Australian Christopher Burton (22.0) was in the lead of the provisional ranking yesterday evening, but in the end it was Great Britain’s Laura Collett and London 52 who topped the competition this morning, with another record-setting score of 21.3. Collett also sits in 10th place with Mr. Bass (26.2). “I am very happy […]
If you were to guess, without help of a cheat sheet, if Lindsey Tomeu and Bonapart had left any rock unturned, any victory still to be desired, you’d confidently say, “Pff no.” After all, in their six-year partnership, they’ve dominated the adult jumper division. They won the NAL Adult Jumper Final at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show […]
Pau, France—Oct. 22 Records were toppled today as dressage kicked off at the Pau CCI5*-L. Australia and Great Britain started as they hope to go on, taking the first 11 places in the provisional rankings ahead of the best French riders, Jean Lou Bigot (Utrillo Du Halage) and Arnaud Boiteau (Quoriano IFCE) currently 12th and 13th. […]
He was a green 6-year-old off-the-track Thoroughbred. She was a 23-year-old professional rider in her first year of contesting grand prix classes. The year was 1979, and they were showing at the prestigious Washington International Horse Show against grand prix superstars like Rodney Jenkins and Conrad Homfeld. But at the end of a 13-horse jump-off, […]
Scout’s mane hadn’t been braided for a show in three years, nor had he seen the tack in quite some time, but Hugh Worsham, DVM, had a hunch that it might be worth pulling his daughter Mattie Worsham’s retired junior hunter out of the field. Degenerative issues meant the warmblood gelding of unrecorded breeding had […]
In the equitation world, most top mounts move around frequently as riders age out, but Copperfield 39 has a forever home with Elli Yeager. Their partnership began when she was just 10, and now that Yeager’s in her last junior year, she’s capitalizing on the benefits of knowing every inch of her chestnut steed with […]
The FEI has committed to allocate European Championships in two Olympic disciplines— jumping and dressage—for 2021, to German venues. The FEI Board allocated the 2021 FEI Jumping European Championships to Riesenbeck, home-base of Barcelona 1992 Olympic champion Ludger Beerbaum. Those championships will take place Aug. 30-Sept. 4. The 2021 FEI Dressage Championships 2021 will take […]
Pau, France – Oct. 21 With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the world, six of the seven CCI5*-Ls have been canceled, including what was to be the inaugural Maryland Five-Star in the United States this month. As a result, the Pau start list is slightly longer this year, with 48 entries, but many of the […]
The 2020 Washington International Equitation Final begins today. The hunter phase will go at 12:30 p.m., and I go 21st in the order. Then the jumper phase and work-off will go on Saturday in the stadium. I will be doing my horse Davide, whom I rode in the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final (North […]
Hanna Dolan got her first taste of horses at a local Arabian barn. After tagging along for her cousin’s riding lessons, Dolan caught the horse bug and spent the next three years showing Arabians in hunter pleasure classes. While it’s an unusual start for an aspiring hunter seat equitation rider, Dolan’s broad education has only […]
Pau, France—Oct. 23 Australian Christopher Burton (22.0) was in the lead of the provisional ranking yesterday evening, but in the end it was Great Britain’s Laura Collett and London 52 who topped the competition this morning, with another record-setting score of 21.3. Collett also sits in 10th place with Mr. Bass (26.2). “I am very happy […]
If you were to guess, without help of a cheat sheet, if Lindsey Tomeu and Bonapart had left any rock unturned, any victory still to be desired, you’d confidently say, “Pff no.” After all, in their six-year partnership, they’ve dominated the adult jumper division. They won the NAL Adult Jumper Final at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show […]
Pau, France—Oct. 22 Records were toppled today as dressage kicked off at the Pau CCI5*-L. Australia and Great Britain started as they hope to go on, taking the first 11 places in the provisional rankings ahead of the best French riders, Jean Lou Bigot (Utrillo Du Halage) and Arnaud Boiteau (Quoriano IFCE) currently 12th and 13th. […]
He was a green 6-year-old off-the-track Thoroughbred. She was a 23-year-old professional rider in her first year of contesting grand prix classes. The year was 1979, and they were showing at the prestigious Washington International Horse Show against grand prix superstars like Rodney Jenkins and Conrad Homfeld. But at the end of a 13-horse jump-off, […]
Scout’s mane hadn’t been braided for a show in three years, nor had he seen the tack in quite some time, but Hugh Worsham, DVM, had a hunch that it might be worth pulling his daughter Mattie Worsham’s retired junior hunter out of the field. Degenerative issues meant the warmblood gelding of unrecorded breeding had […]
In the equitation world, most top mounts move around frequently as riders age out, but Copperfield 39 has a forever home with Elli Yeager. Their partnership began when she was just 10, and now that Yeager’s in her last junior year, she’s capitalizing on the benefits of knowing every inch of her chestnut steed with […]
The FEI has committed to allocate European Championships in two Olympic disciplines— jumping and dressage—for 2021, to German venues. The FEI Board allocated the 2021 FEI Jumping European Championships to Riesenbeck, home-base of Barcelona 1992 Olympic champion Ludger Beerbaum. Those championships will take place Aug. 30-Sept. 4. The 2021 FEI Dressage Championships 2021 will take […]
Pau, France – Oct. 21 With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the world, six of the seven CCI5*-Ls have been canceled, including what was to be the inaugural Maryland Five-Star in the United States this month. As a result, the Pau start list is slightly longer this year, with 48 entries, but many of the […]
