The Dressage Foundation was kind enough to honor me with a Major Lindgren Instructor Education grant to allow me to ride with Olympic bronze medalist and living legend Mike Poulin. I have a fair bit of experience bringing lunatics up the levels, but I don’t have a lot of mileage doing it with more reasonable […]
Ireland’s Daniel Coyle finished the 2019/2020 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup North American League the same way he started it—with a victory. After beginning the season with a win in Vancouver, Coyle rode Farrel to the top of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Ocala, besting an eight-horse jump-off on March 8 at the Live […]
Laura Graves’ Olympic and World Games medal-winning partner Verdades will make two public appearances at the 2020 FEI World Cup Finals in Las Vegas, April 15-19. “Diddy” will headline the Devoucoux Dressage Showcase on Friday afternoon, April 17 and then have his official retirement ceremony on Saturday evening during the intermission of the Grand Prix […]
March 9—Wellington, Fla. Ashlee Bond recorded her first career five-star grand prix victory riding Donatello 141 in the $401,000 Douglas Elliman Real Estate Grand Prix CSI5* on March 7 at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Forty riders started in the “Saturday Night Lights” feature, four of which found the path to a clear round to advance […]
On March 5, a high court in England released a fact-finding judgment confirming that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and noted endurance athlete and supporter, had held two of his daughters in the country against their will and threatened his former wife Princess Haya bint Hussein, who was the Fédération Equestre […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale has canceled the in-person FEI Sports Forum, scheduled to take place April 6-7 in Lausanne, Switzerland, amid fears of the spread of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Time-sensitive portions of the Sports Forum, including sessions on the FEI Anti-Doping Rules and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, will […]
Most riders can remember the major firsts in their equestrian life: first time cantering and jumping, first competition, first blue ribbon. But before those milestones occur, there’s often another important event in the life of a horse-crazy child: The day a young person gets a first Breyer horse model. While any horse figurine is a […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation is now accepting nominations for the position of president, for which the next term will begin January 2021 and continue through January 2025. The nomination committee began accepting nominations March 3, 2020, and will close the nomination period on March 15, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. EST. The nominating committee will submit […]
In June of 2019, Gayl Russell thought she’d finally turned a corner with her mare Kilkenny Cairo. After nearly two years of unconventional cross training, the skittish and reactive Dutch Warmblood was beginning to behave like a solid citizen. “Cairo” had a reputation as a fearful horse with a buck before Russell bought her. Her […]
In the Chronicle’s new series, we follow various equine professionals throughout a typical day. In this installment, we asked Caroline Cochran, a working student with Olivia LaGoy-Weltz, to take us to work with her. Caroline was born in Germany and grew up as an Army brat in a family of perfectly normal people who had the good […]
The Dressage Foundation was kind enough to honor me with a Major Lindgren Instructor Education grant to allow me to ride with Olympic bronze medalist and living legend Mike Poulin. I have a fair bit of experience bringing lunatics up the levels, but I don’t have a lot of mileage doing it with more reasonable […]
Ireland’s Daniel Coyle finished the 2019/2020 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup North American League the same way he started it—with a victory. After beginning the season with a win in Vancouver, Coyle rode Farrel to the top of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Ocala, besting an eight-horse jump-off on March 8 at the Live […]
Laura Graves’ Olympic and World Games medal-winning partner Verdades will make two public appearances at the 2020 FEI World Cup Finals in Las Vegas, April 15-19. “Diddy” will headline the Devoucoux Dressage Showcase on Friday afternoon, April 17 and then have his official retirement ceremony on Saturday evening during the intermission of the Grand Prix […]
March 9—Wellington, Fla. Ashlee Bond recorded her first career five-star grand prix victory riding Donatello 141 in the $401,000 Douglas Elliman Real Estate Grand Prix CSI5* on March 7 at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Forty riders started in the “Saturday Night Lights” feature, four of which found the path to a clear round to advance […]
On March 5, a high court in England released a fact-finding judgment confirming that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and noted endurance athlete and supporter, had held two of his daughters in the country against their will and threatened his former wife Princess Haya bint Hussein, who was the Fédération Equestre […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale has canceled the in-person FEI Sports Forum, scheduled to take place April 6-7 in Lausanne, Switzerland, amid fears of the spread of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Time-sensitive portions of the Sports Forum, including sessions on the FEI Anti-Doping Rules and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, will […]
Most riders can remember the major firsts in their equestrian life: first time cantering and jumping, first competition, first blue ribbon. But before those milestones occur, there’s often another important event in the life of a horse-crazy child: The day a young person gets a first Breyer horse model. While any horse figurine is a […]
In June of 2019, Gayl Russell thought she’d finally turned a corner with her mare Kilkenny Cairo. After nearly two years of unconventional cross training, the skittish and reactive Dutch Warmblood was beginning to behave like a solid citizen. “Cairo” had a reputation as a fearful horse with a buck before Russell bought her. Her […]
In the Chronicle’s new series, we follow various equine professionals throughout a typical day. In this installment, we asked Caroline Cochran, a working student with Olivia LaGoy-Weltz, to take us to work with her. Caroline was born in Germany and grew up as an Army brat in a family of perfectly normal people who had the good […]
