Upper-level dressage horse pedigrees don’t typically include names like Dreamboat Annie and Texas Tea, but Rose Goetsch’s versatile gelding Zip Two Dust is anything but typical. The 18-year-old red roan with distinctive blanket spots covering his hindquarters was purchased, sight unseen, through an online ad in 2016. Goetsch, from Fort Worth, Texas, met the shipper […]
Most of us, when aiming to compete in the North American Adult Amateur Equitation Championships, would have a mount lined up at least a few weeks in advance, allowing adequate time for introductions. But most of us aren’t Jordan Allen. Coltrane arrived at Ken and Emily Smith’s Ashland Farms in Lexington, Kentucky, just a week […]
Despite the turbulent months following the COVID-19 outbreak and the suspension of all competition from March to June, we finally have arrived at indoors season and the start of Capital Challenge. Like most things in this pandemic world, the horse show looks a little different this year. Instead of taking place in its normal location […]
With a personality as adorable as his name, Paddy The Caddy makes everyone who meets him smile. Erin Kanara (née Sylvester) and the 13-year-old Thoroughbred gelding (Azamore—Slamy) have racked up top placings at the four- and five-star level for the last four years. They won the Rebecca Farm CCI4*-L (Montana) in 2017, were second at […]
Jonathan Horowitz is looking forward to the day when sporting events return to normal. A professional sports commentator based in Denver, he misses the routine of announcing, a hobby turned career that began at the Los Alamitos Race Course in California, where he announced his first race at the age of 14. As a teenager, […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale board has suspended the national federation of the United Arab Emirates following a detailed investigation into the circumstances around two national endurance events in January and February 2020—the Sheikh Mohammed Cup and The President’s Cup— that should have been held as international endurance events since the number of foreign athletes far exceeded […]
Liz Austin has never been afraid to embrace the unconventional. “It’s the same Grand Prix test whether you’re sitting on a big Irish Draught or if you’re sitting on the best horse in the world,” she said. “To me, gaining that experience and having the horse that went in there and really, truly tried his heart […]
Horses like Elvis, and like Ellegria, and Dorian Gray, and Fiero, are unbelievably wonderful to train. They have their hiccups and misunderstandings along the way, but they’re generous of heart and mind, and talented of body and limb; they soak up the education presented to them like a sponge, and they make their way up […]
Lauren Nethery has never been one to sit still. She’s packed more into her 32 years than many people accomplish in a lifetime. She’s evented through intermediate, ridden race horses, schooled dressage through third level, and competed in the jumpers. She has ridden bulls. She’s trained feral rescue horses and 2-year-old Thoroughbreds. She did an […]
Name: Rebecca Lord Age: 55 Day Job: Owner and manager of Soul Passion Farm, Ocala, Florida A Friend For The End Of The World Six years ago, acupuncturist and medical intuitive Rebecca Lord engaged in a little innocent horse browsing online—a grave, but common error with which anyone reading this can sympathize. She was in the middle of […]
Upper-level dressage horse pedigrees don’t typically include names like Dreamboat Annie and Texas Tea, but Rose Goetsch’s versatile gelding Zip Two Dust is anything but typical. The 18-year-old red roan with distinctive blanket spots covering his hindquarters was purchased, sight unseen, through an online ad in 2016. Goetsch, from Fort Worth, Texas, met the shipper […]
Most of us, when aiming to compete in the North American Adult Amateur Equitation Championships, would have a mount lined up at least a few weeks in advance, allowing adequate time for introductions. But most of us aren’t Jordan Allen. Coltrane arrived at Ken and Emily Smith’s Ashland Farms in Lexington, Kentucky, just a week […]
Despite the turbulent months following the COVID-19 outbreak and the suspension of all competition from March to June, we finally have arrived at indoors season and the start of Capital Challenge. Like most things in this pandemic world, the horse show looks a little different this year. Instead of taking place in its normal location […]
With a personality as adorable as his name, Paddy The Caddy makes everyone who meets him smile. Erin Kanara (née Sylvester) and the 13-year-old Thoroughbred gelding (Azamore—Slamy) have racked up top placings at the four- and five-star level for the last four years. They won the Rebecca Farm CCI4*-L (Montana) in 2017, were second at […]
Jonathan Horowitz is looking forward to the day when sporting events return to normal. A professional sports commentator based in Denver, he misses the routine of announcing, a hobby turned career that began at the Los Alamitos Race Course in California, where he announced his first race at the age of 14. As a teenager, […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale board has suspended the national federation of the United Arab Emirates following a detailed investigation into the circumstances around two national endurance events in January and February 2020—the Sheikh Mohammed Cup and The President’s Cup— that should have been held as international endurance events since the number of foreign athletes far exceeded […]
Liz Austin has never been afraid to embrace the unconventional. “It’s the same Grand Prix test whether you’re sitting on a big Irish Draught or if you’re sitting on the best horse in the world,” she said. “To me, gaining that experience and having the horse that went in there and really, truly tried his heart […]
Horses like Elvis, and like Ellegria, and Dorian Gray, and Fiero, are unbelievably wonderful to train. They have their hiccups and misunderstandings along the way, but they’re generous of heart and mind, and talented of body and limb; they soak up the education presented to them like a sponge, and they make their way up […]
Lauren Nethery has never been one to sit still. She’s packed more into her 32 years than many people accomplish in a lifetime. She’s evented through intermediate, ridden race horses, schooled dressage through third level, and competed in the jumpers. She has ridden bulls. She’s trained feral rescue horses and 2-year-old Thoroughbreds. She did an […]
Name: Rebecca Lord Age: 55 Day Job: Owner and manager of Soul Passion Farm, Ocala, Florida A Friend For The End Of The World Six years ago, acupuncturist and medical intuitive Rebecca Lord engaged in a little innocent horse browsing online—a grave, but common error with which anyone reading this can sympathize. She was in the middle of […]
