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 United States Eventing Association (USEA) is pleased to announce the creation of a new program, the USEA Interscholastic Eventing League (IEL). This new program will launch in 2021 and was created for USEA junior members who are in the 7th through 12th grades. The USEA Board of Governors approved the creation of this program […]
Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce that it has published a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan outlining 10 strategies to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in equestrian sport. These strategies seek to ensure a welcoming environment for people from under-represented and under-served communities, and evolve US Equestrian’s policies and practices to create a […]
The Dressage Foundation has announced that two $25,000 Carol Lavell Advanced Dressage Prizes will be awarded this year. Recipients are Kelly Coyne of Virginia Beach with her Brilliance and Kristina Harrison-Antell of Los Angeles with her Finley. These riders were selected because they display the characteristics and qualities of being talented, committed, qualified riders with […]
Horse people have a reputation for putting the health and wellbeing of their animals ahead of their own, often skipping an annual checkup or even postponing surgery until after the show season. Jen Ruberto, who runs her off-the-track Thoroughbred retraining business Wire To Wire Thoroughbreds and helps her husband with his family’s racing business, is […]
No day is the same for freelance trainer and champion hunter rider Sandy Ferrell, but you can bet she enjoys every second of it. After closing her barn a few years ago, the 53-year-old from Hagerstown, Maryland, enjoys every aspect of horses, whether she’s competing at the Totally Thoroughbred Horse Show at the Pimlico Race […]
After I recently posted a video snippet of my 37-year-old Appaloosa nickering for treats on Facebook, Beth Rasin, friend, former coworker and now executive editor of the Chronicle, asked me to revisit a commentary I’d written about him more than 20 years ago. In 2000, I was an editorial staff member, recently promoted from the […]
The 2020 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East has come to an end, and Ivan and I moved up 16 places following Phase III to secure our spot as 13th overall! I headed into the final round ready to put all the pieces together. Overall, the course walked nicely. There was an option in […]
US Equestrian has announced the horse-and-athlete combinations selected to compete at the 2020 Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge – West Coast held at Galway Downs in Temecula, California, from Oct. 29-Nov. 1. The format of the Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge provides an opportunity for eventing athletes to gain valuable team competition experience in an […]
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 United States Eventing Association (USEA) is pleased to announce the creation of a new program, the USEA Interscholastic Eventing League (IEL). This new program will launch in 2021 and was created for USEA junior members who are in the 7th through 12th grades. The USEA Board of Governors approved the creation of this program […]
Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce that it has published a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan outlining 10 strategies to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in equestrian sport. These strategies seek to ensure a welcoming environment for people from under-represented and under-served communities, and evolve US Equestrian’s policies and practices to create a […]
The Dressage Foundation has announced that two $25,000 Carol Lavell Advanced Dressage Prizes will be awarded this year. Recipients are Kelly Coyne of Virginia Beach with her Brilliance and Kristina Harrison-Antell of Los Angeles with her Finley. These riders were selected because they display the characteristics and qualities of being talented, committed, qualified riders with […]
Horse people have a reputation for putting the health and wellbeing of their animals ahead of their own, often skipping an annual checkup or even postponing surgery until after the show season. Jen Ruberto, who runs her off-the-track Thoroughbred retraining business Wire To Wire Thoroughbreds and helps her husband with his family’s racing business, is […]
No day is the same for freelance trainer and champion hunter rider Sandy Ferrell, but you can bet she enjoys every second of it. After closing her barn a few years ago, the 53-year-old from Hagerstown, Maryland, enjoys every aspect of horses, whether she’s competing at the Totally Thoroughbred Horse Show at the Pimlico Race […]
After I recently posted a video snippet of my 37-year-old Appaloosa nickering for treats on Facebook, Beth Rasin, friend, former coworker and now executive editor of the Chronicle, asked me to revisit a commentary I’d written about him more than 20 years ago. In 2000, I was an editorial staff member, recently promoted from the […]
The 2020 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East has come to an end, and Ivan and I moved up 16 places following Phase III to secure our spot as 13th overall! I headed into the final round ready to put all the pieces together. Overall, the course walked nicely. There was an option in […]
US Equestrian has announced the horse-and-athlete combinations selected to compete at the 2020 Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge – West Coast held at Galway Downs in Temecula, California, from Oct. 29-Nov. 1. The format of the Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge provides an opportunity for eventing athletes to gain valuable team competition experience in an […]
