Name: Lauren Taylor Harding Age: 38 Day Job: Co-executive producer of “The Masked Singer” on Fox in Los Angeles Lauren Taylor Harding laughs when you ask her about her daily schedule. By day, she’s a co-executive producer on “The Masked Singer,” one of the highest-rated shows on primetime television. But in the early hours of […]
On Sept. 12, at the Maryland Horse Trials starter trial, Catherine Paladeau held her breath as she entered the start box atop Luckaun Quality. The Irish Sport Horse gelding, who competed to the five-star level with Paladeau’s boss Tim Bourke, was known for being difficult at the start of cross-country, often needing a multi-person entourage […]
The nature of the hunter sport calls for next-level nitpicking—so very rarely does one walk out of the ring not thinking of at least one (or 100) things to improve upon. But Isha Swani found herself as one of the exceptional ones at Capital Challenge in Wilmington, Ohio. And to achieve such a feat, Bond (I’d […]
Leesburg, Va. – Oct. 3 The upper levels headlined a crisp fall day at the Morven Park Horse Trials. Sharon White and Cooley On Show captured the win the advanced-A division, while Meghan O’Donoghue and Palm Crescent were the winners in the advanced-B division. Morven Park was named host to a new CCI4*-L this year, […]
The Morven Park Fall Horse Trials organizing committee and the board of trustees of the Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation announced today, Oct. 3, the death of Sparrow’s Nio, a 17-year-old Connemara-Thoroughbred gelding, owned and ridden by Alexandra Sacksen. Sparrow’s Nio (Grange Finn Sparrow—JB) collapsed while competing in the advanced division at the Morven Park Fall […]
Discussing strategy for the $10,000 World Champion Hunter Rider Professional Finals with friend Geoffrey Case, Michael Britt-Leon realized his normal smooth style just wouldn’t do. With all the best hunter professionals concentrated in one class, he needed the adjective “brilliant” to flash before the judges’ eyes. “We worked on something a little bit different than what […]
Wilmington, Ohio—Oct. 2 A betting man probably wouldn’t have chosen Cantina and Helen Voss to win the WCHR Adult Amateur Challenge at the Capital Challenge Horse Show. After all, the 23-year-old rider just got back in the tack in May after several years off. But Voss and Cantina out-jumped the field of 18 competitors to […]
For seven years, Madeline Schaefer has cherished her favorite Capital Challenge moment. The setting: Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The place: by the pony ring at Prince George’s Equestrian Center. The year: 2013. She had already accumulated a Capital Challenge blue rosette before—that came earlier in 2009—but 2013 went above and beyond. “[My small] Armani was grand […]
The first year Julia Rose Rossow turned professional, she received an incredible opportunity. Not only did the 26-year-old from Santa Barbara, California, make the trip to Maryland for the Capital Challenge, but she contested the World Champion Hunter Rider Developing Pro Challenge aboard Liz Reilly’s famous horse Illusion. Rossow had shown in the amateur divisions […]
As Courtney Lenkart studied the course map for the second round of the $25,000 World Champion Hunter Rider Professional Challenge, she flashed back to 2015, the only other time she’d attempted the class at the Capital Challenge, held then in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. “They had that exact same line—a one-stride to an eight-stride,” said the […]
Name: Lauren Taylor Harding Age: 38 Day Job: Co-executive producer of “The Masked Singer” on Fox in Los Angeles Lauren Taylor Harding laughs when you ask her about her daily schedule. By day, she’s a co-executive producer on “The Masked Singer,” one of the highest-rated shows on primetime television. But in the early hours of […]
On Sept. 12, at the Maryland Horse Trials starter trial, Catherine Paladeau held her breath as she entered the start box atop Luckaun Quality. The Irish Sport Horse gelding, who competed to the five-star level with Paladeau’s boss Tim Bourke, was known for being difficult at the start of cross-country, often needing a multi-person entourage […]
The nature of the hunter sport calls for next-level nitpicking—so very rarely does one walk out of the ring not thinking of at least one (or 100) things to improve upon. But Isha Swani found herself as one of the exceptional ones at Capital Challenge in Wilmington, Ohio. And to achieve such a feat, Bond (I’d […]
Leesburg, Va. – Oct. 3 The upper levels headlined a crisp fall day at the Morven Park Horse Trials. Sharon White and Cooley On Show captured the win the advanced-A division, while Meghan O’Donoghue and Palm Crescent were the winners in the advanced-B division. Morven Park was named host to a new CCI4*-L this year, […]
The Morven Park Fall Horse Trials organizing committee and the board of trustees of the Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation announced today, Oct. 3, the death of Sparrow’s Nio, a 17-year-old Connemara-Thoroughbred gelding, owned and ridden by Alexandra Sacksen. Sparrow’s Nio (Grange Finn Sparrow—JB) collapsed while competing in the advanced division at the Morven Park Fall […]
Discussing strategy for the $10,000 World Champion Hunter Rider Professional Finals with friend Geoffrey Case, Michael Britt-Leon realized his normal smooth style just wouldn’t do. With all the best hunter professionals concentrated in one class, he needed the adjective “brilliant” to flash before the judges’ eyes. “We worked on something a little bit different than what […]
Wilmington, Ohio—Oct. 2 A betting man probably wouldn’t have chosen Cantina and Helen Voss to win the WCHR Adult Amateur Challenge at the Capital Challenge Horse Show. After all, the 23-year-old rider just got back in the tack in May after several years off. But Voss and Cantina out-jumped the field of 18 competitors to […]
For seven years, Madeline Schaefer has cherished her favorite Capital Challenge moment. The setting: Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The place: by the pony ring at Prince George’s Equestrian Center. The year: 2013. She had already accumulated a Capital Challenge blue rosette before—that came earlier in 2009—but 2013 went above and beyond. “[My small] Armani was grand […]
The first year Julia Rose Rossow turned professional, she received an incredible opportunity. Not only did the 26-year-old from Santa Barbara, California, make the trip to Maryland for the Capital Challenge, but she contested the World Champion Hunter Rider Developing Pro Challenge aboard Liz Reilly’s famous horse Illusion. Rossow had shown in the amateur divisions […]
As Courtney Lenkart studied the course map for the second round of the $25,000 World Champion Hunter Rider Professional Challenge, she flashed back to 2015, the only other time she’d attempted the class at the Capital Challenge, held then in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. “They had that exact same line—a one-stride to an eight-stride,” said the […]
