The Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East kicks off today, Oct. 16. Like the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final, the Talent Search has relocated and is taking place at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina. The first class is the flat phase, which will begin at 2 p.m. in the covered […]
Willingapark Cooley (formerly Cooley SRS), who finished second at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton CCI5*-L with Oliver Townend in 2018, was euthanized on Oct. 13 after a cross-country schooling accident in Australia. Heath Ryan posted on his Facebook page that the 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding (Ramiro B—Ballynattin Pride, Kiltealy Spring) was schooling with Hazel Shannon […]
Since her junior days, Liza Boyd has started each year by circling certain weeks on the calendar. From the Devon Horse Show (Pennsylvania) to the USHJA International Derby Championships (Kentucky) to indoors, she plans out the peaks of her competition season. But no plan in 2020 has survived unaltered. “The past 20 years have been […]
Mill Spring, NC – The $214,000 President’s Cup Grand Prix CSI4* presented by MARS Equestrian™ will be held at Tryon International Equestrian Center during the 2020 Washington International Horse Show on Saturday, October 24, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET. One of the most historic and popular grand prix events in North America, this year’s WIHS President’s Cup Grand Prix offers record setting […]
Hey, guess what? It’s been a weird year. Shocking, I know. I had a plan—getting Elvis to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions—only to have it rerouted by COVID-19, amongst other things. But I also had a few plans for the other horses in my life: trying to qualify as many as possible for the […]
When the sun rose in Katy, Texas, over the GAIG/USDF Region 9 Championships, held Oct. 1-4, 14-year-old Savana Garvey was already buzzing in the barn aisles of the Great Southwest Equestrian Center. “Savana took it upon herself to get to the barn first every morning,” said Garvey’s trainer, Jesse Collins. “She got all our horses […]
I started working as an assistant for Caitlyn Shiels at True North Stables about a year ago, and I knew it would be a career move that would set me on the right path toward achieving my goals, not just in the near future, but also for where I see myself way down the road. […]
While dressage is her passion, Cedar Potts-Warner doesn’t rule anything out with horses—western dressage and bridleless dressage on her Grand Prix horse? Sure. The Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover? Yes, twice. Portuguese working equitation? Yes, complete with traditional costume. “It makes it more interesting; it makes it more fun,” she said. “The more you do […]
Since the age of 15, Callie Seaman has experienced debilitating back issues, which culminated in a diagnosis of degenerative disc disease when she was in her mid-20s. Through multiple corrective and therapeutic spinal surgeries, this amateur rider has remained focused on one goal: stay in the saddle. Then she broke her right leg in a […]
Texan-born eventer Will Faudree attended his first championship as a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Elkton, Maryland. Faudree was the reserve rider for the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece and rode at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen (Germany). The 39-year-old is based in Hoffman, […]
The Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals—East kicks off today, Oct. 16. Like the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Final, the Talent Search has relocated and is taking place at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina. The first class is the flat phase, which will begin at 2 p.m. in the covered […]
Willingapark Cooley (formerly Cooley SRS), who finished second at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton CCI5*-L with Oliver Townend in 2018, was euthanized on Oct. 13 after a cross-country schooling accident in Australia. Heath Ryan posted on his Facebook page that the 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding (Ramiro B—Ballynattin Pride, Kiltealy Spring) was schooling with Hazel Shannon […]
Since her junior days, Liza Boyd has started each year by circling certain weeks on the calendar. From the Devon Horse Show (Pennsylvania) to the USHJA International Derby Championships (Kentucky) to indoors, she plans out the peaks of her competition season. But no plan in 2020 has survived unaltered. “The past 20 years have been […]
Mill Spring, NC – The $214,000 President’s Cup Grand Prix CSI4* presented by MARS Equestrian™ will be held at Tryon International Equestrian Center during the 2020 Washington International Horse Show on Saturday, October 24, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET. One of the most historic and popular grand prix events in North America, this year’s WIHS President’s Cup Grand Prix offers record setting […]
Hey, guess what? It’s been a weird year. Shocking, I know. I had a plan—getting Elvis to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions—only to have it rerouted by COVID-19, amongst other things. But I also had a few plans for the other horses in my life: trying to qualify as many as possible for the […]
When the sun rose in Katy, Texas, over the GAIG/USDF Region 9 Championships, held Oct. 1-4, 14-year-old Savana Garvey was already buzzing in the barn aisles of the Great Southwest Equestrian Center. “Savana took it upon herself to get to the barn first every morning,” said Garvey’s trainer, Jesse Collins. “She got all our horses […]
I started working as an assistant for Caitlyn Shiels at True North Stables about a year ago, and I knew it would be a career move that would set me on the right path toward achieving my goals, not just in the near future, but also for where I see myself way down the road. […]
While dressage is her passion, Cedar Potts-Warner doesn’t rule anything out with horses—western dressage and bridleless dressage on her Grand Prix horse? Sure. The Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover? Yes, twice. Portuguese working equitation? Yes, complete with traditional costume. “It makes it more interesting; it makes it more fun,” she said. “The more you do […]
Since the age of 15, Callie Seaman has experienced debilitating back issues, which culminated in a diagnosis of degenerative disc disease when she was in her mid-20s. Through multiple corrective and therapeutic spinal surgeries, this amateur rider has remained focused on one goal: stay in the saddle. Then she broke her right leg in a […]
Texan-born eventer Will Faudree attended his first championship as a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Elkton, Maryland. Faudree was the reserve rider for the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece and rode at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen (Germany). The 39-year-old is based in Hoffman, […]
