At 59, Nicole Orna says she’s the happiest she’s ever been, thanks in large part to a road trip in 2014 that led to her current position: grooming some of the top carriage horses in the country for Mary and Harvey Waller. Before hiring on at the Wallers’ Orleton Farm in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Orna had […]
In the wake of the death of Katharine Morel and her horse Kerry On at the Rocking Horse Winter III Horse Trials on Feb. 29, the U.S. Eventing Association Foundation and a group led by organizer and eventing official Andy Bowles have announced separate fundraising efforts to offset the costs of frangible devices. Morel and […]
The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team is set to contest their first team competition of the season at the 2020 Stillpoint Farm FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* from March 11-13 hosted at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. The 2020 Stillpoint Farm FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* marks the start of the 2020 FEI Dressage […]
Lehua Custer just received The Dressage Foundation’s 2020 $25,000 Carol Lavell Advanced Dressage Prize after also winning it last year. The Chronicle published this article about Custer in June of 2019 after she won the award the first time. Since then, Custer has made her Grand Prix debut with F.J. Ramzes, scoring 65.65% in their […]
Michael Barisone appeared in front of superior court judge Stephen Taylor on March 2 alongside his lawyer Ed Bilinkas. Barisone is charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of possessing a weapon for an unlawful purpose following an Aug. 7 altercation with Lauren Kanarek and Rob Goodwin that left Kanarek in critical […]
Since 2017, Chelsea Smith has been living through a struggle that few women talk about but one in four will experience: infertility. Smith, 31, and her husband, Mark Smith, started trying for a baby in 2016. They had recently purchased a small farm in Paris, Kentucky, and Chelsea had launched her own equine marketing agency, […]
I had just turned 18. I’d shown a bad Prix St. Georges on a borrowed horse the summer before I started college, and I’d gone to school horseless, because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to really dedicate myself to horses or just ride for fun. Two weeks into my first semester of college I […]
Officials from the Split Rock Jumping Tour announced March 2 that it will not be holding its planned $1.5 Million “Ante Up” Grand Prix which had been scheduled to debut April 7 at Pomponio Ranch in Rancho Santa Fe, California. “From the start, SRJT has tried to push the envelope and try new things for the betterment of our sport,” said Derek Braun, founder and CEO […]
Paso Robles, Calif.—March 1 It was almost 20 years ago that the Baxter family purchased 500 acres in the sleepy Central California Coast town of Paso Robles. Where others saw fallow farmland, they saw the potential for international equestrian competition. The team has grown, and the venue has transformed in those nearly 20 years, but […]
Officials at the Colorado Horse announced March 2 that LEG Shows & Events will be hosting seven weeks of horse show competition at the venue in 2020. The complete schedule being produced by LEG Shows & Events is as follows: Summer in the Rockies II – June 10-14 Summer in the Rockies III – June […]