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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
