Springer Spearheaded The Beginning Of The End For Top Hats

This week, for the first time since 1978, there will be no Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. Instead of a Kentucky Preview Issue, the Chronicle’s April 20 & 27 Classic Kentucky Issue features some of the people and horses who’ve made the event unforgettable over the years. We’ll also be highlighting some of our favorite […]

The Pat Seen Around The World

For the first time since 1978, there will be no Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event this week. Instead of a Kentucky Preview issue, the Chronicle’s April 20 & 27 Classic Kentucky Issue features some of the people and horses who’ve made the event unforgettable over the years. We’ll also be highlighting some of our favorite […]

International Three-Day Events Canceled Due To COVID-19

On April 23 the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials CCI5*/4* announced the cancellation of its 2020 event, which was scheduled to run June 18-21.  “After the German government announced new restrictions on April 15, we have considered several options but unfortunately now have to cancel the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials,” said Event Director Julia Otto in […]

Wakefield Introduces Virtual Eventing—With A Twist

As she perused social media in the early days of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Rachel Wakefield saw a nurse’s plea for people to stop hoarding and to help one another. Inspired to raise money for nurses, and after watching riders posting on social media, she floated the idea on Facebook of holding a virtual five-star event […]

Coming To A Virtual Jog Strip Near You: Carole Baskin And Larry The Tiger

If everything had gone to plan this year, horses and riders would be lining up for the first horse inspection of the Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L today in Lexington, Kentucky. While that’s not happening because of COVID-19, Dubarry is sponsoring a virtual jog and still giving out Best Dressed Awards. Though some riders are choosing to don the […]

El Primero Was The First For Sara Mittleider

This week, for the first time since 1978, there will be no Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. Instead of a Kentucky Preview Issue, the Chronicle’s April 20 & 27 Classic Kentucky Issue features some of the people and horses who’ve made the event unforgettable over the years. We’ll also be highlighting some of our favorite […]

Behind The Stall Door With: Golden Rule

“He looked a little bit like a dinosaur when he came to the barn. Very long legs and just big—I mean giant. People were surprised, to say the least,” Stephanie Danhakl said about her amateur-owner hunter Golden Rule. She isn’t kidding when she says he’s big. The 16-year-old Oldenburg gelding of unrecorded breeding towers above […]

The Chronicle’s Choices: Kentucky Spring Trade Fair Favorites

For the first time since 1979, cars won’t line up to turn in off Iron Works Pike, and spectators won’t spread far and wide across the bluegrass at the Kentucky Horse Park during the last week in April for the Kentucky Three-Day Event. The horses are the main attraction, but the trade fair at Kentucky […]

In Defense Of Going To The Barn

Recently, I’ve seen a whole swath of think pieces across many different horse related websites extolling the virtues of not going to the barn during this pandemic situation. The reasons are solid: We need to all stay home, help flatten the curve, keep our barn owners safe, and keep ourselves out of harm’s way by […]

The Best Of Runs And The Worst Of Runs At Kentucky

For the first time since 1978, there will be no Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event this week. Instead of a Kentucky Preview issue, the Chronicle’s April 20 & 27 Classic Kentucky issue features some of the people and horses who’ve made the event unforgettable over the years. We’ll also be highlighting some of our favorite […]