When McLain Ward first watched Noche De Ronda ringside in December of 2018, he was impressed, but the mare was a bit expensive. A month later, Marilla van Beuren approached him, offering to buy Ward a grand prix horse. “Ronda” popped into his head, and he suggested her. She’d been competing in national grand prix […]
Saugerties, N.Y.—Sept. 7 On Sept. 6, 51 riders were welcomed to HITS Championship for the $500,000 Grand Prix, which is the biggest prize money jumper class in the world this year. Four riders from the first round jumped clear over a challenging course designed by Florencio Hernandez of Mexico City. “I was thinking with this course […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the roster of horse-and-athlete combinations selected to compete at the 2020 Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge – East Coast held in Unionville, Pennsylvania, from September 17-20, 2020. The format of the Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge provides an opportunity for eventing athletes to gain valuable team competition experience in an […]
It’s hard enough to win the Platinum Performance USHJA International Derby Championship once, but trainer Tom Wright has done it twice in a row. Despite his achievements, Wright wasn’t always a derby fan. “I didn’t believe in the program for a long time,” he admitted. “I trained horses that were winners at indoors, and winners […]
Tucked up in the top of my closet, along with a summer-weight sleeping bag, mosquito netting, and a fancy hat once required for a Derby party, is a box of horse show ribbons. I don’t remember when I last pulled it out to look at them, but the box has survived several Marie Kondo-style purges. […]
The Tevis Cup, that infamous 100-mile endurance ride across some of the most difficult terrain California and Nevada has to offer, has gone virtual this year like so many other races thanks to COVID-19. Participants may submit 100 miles at their own pace on their own trails at some point between Aug. 1 and Nov. […]
After top international results in the late aughts (including FEI World Cup Champion in 2005 and 2008, a win at the Rolex Kentucky CCI5*-L in 2007 and medals at both the FEI World Equestrian Games and the Olympics), Australian eventer Clayton Fredericks stepped back from elite sport as a competitor to focus on other aspects […]
As a young junior, I just remember Waiting Home ridden so beautifully by Peggy Augustus. Whether he was really that beautiful or not, in my eyes at the time [he was]. [At the Ox Ridge Hunt Club Show (Connecticut)] he would be stabled right down the first aisle in the main barn. I used to […]
Patty Ball was 12 when she began giving riding lessons on her off-the-track Thoroughbred mare and a few ponies borrowed from her grandmother out of her backyard in Carmichael, California. It’s been quite the journey from those first lessons in that backyard to winning the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association’s 2016 Jane Marshall Dillon Award, which […]
New dates and locations have been selected for the USEF CCI3*-L and CCI4*-L Eventing National Championships for 2020. The CCI3*-L Eventing National Championship will be held at the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event in Temecula, California, Oct. 29-Nov. 1. The CCI4*-L Eventing National Championship will be held at the Tryon International Three-Day Event in Tryon, […]
When McLain Ward first watched Noche De Ronda ringside in December of 2018, he was impressed, but the mare was a bit expensive. A month later, Marilla van Beuren approached him, offering to buy Ward a grand prix horse. “Ronda” popped into his head, and he suggested her. She’d been competing in national grand prix […]
Saugerties, N.Y.—Sept. 7 On Sept. 6, 51 riders were welcomed to HITS Championship for the $500,000 Grand Prix, which is the biggest prize money jumper class in the world this year. Four riders from the first round jumped clear over a challenging course designed by Florencio Hernandez of Mexico City. “I was thinking with this course […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the roster of horse-and-athlete combinations selected to compete at the 2020 Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge – East Coast held in Unionville, Pennsylvania, from September 17-20, 2020. The format of the Adequan USEF Futures Team Challenge provides an opportunity for eventing athletes to gain valuable team competition experience in an […]
It’s hard enough to win the Platinum Performance USHJA International Derby Championship once, but trainer Tom Wright has done it twice in a row. Despite his achievements, Wright wasn’t always a derby fan. “I didn’t believe in the program for a long time,” he admitted. “I trained horses that were winners at indoors, and winners […]
Tucked up in the top of my closet, along with a summer-weight sleeping bag, mosquito netting, and a fancy hat once required for a Derby party, is a box of horse show ribbons. I don’t remember when I last pulled it out to look at them, but the box has survived several Marie Kondo-style purges. […]
The Tevis Cup, that infamous 100-mile endurance ride across some of the most difficult terrain California and Nevada has to offer, has gone virtual this year like so many other races thanks to COVID-19. Participants may submit 100 miles at their own pace on their own trails at some point between Aug. 1 and Nov. […]
After top international results in the late aughts (including FEI World Cup Champion in 2005 and 2008, a win at the Rolex Kentucky CCI5*-L in 2007 and medals at both the FEI World Equestrian Games and the Olympics), Australian eventer Clayton Fredericks stepped back from elite sport as a competitor to focus on other aspects […]
As a young junior, I just remember Waiting Home ridden so beautifully by Peggy Augustus. Whether he was really that beautiful or not, in my eyes at the time [he was]. [At the Ox Ridge Hunt Club Show (Connecticut)] he would be stabled right down the first aisle in the main barn. I used to […]
Patty Ball was 12 when she began giving riding lessons on her off-the-track Thoroughbred mare and a few ponies borrowed from her grandmother out of her backyard in Carmichael, California. It’s been quite the journey from those first lessons in that backyard to winning the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association’s 2016 Jane Marshall Dillon Award, which […]
New dates and locations have been selected for the USEF CCI3*-L and CCI4*-L Eventing National Championships for 2020. The CCI3*-L Eventing National Championship will be held at the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event in Temecula, California, Oct. 29-Nov. 1. The CCI4*-L Eventing National Championship will be held at the Tryon International Three-Day Event in Tryon, […]
