Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 17 Few riders have accomplished as much as Tori Colvin, especially as early in their career. And she just keeps adding to her list of accomplishments, with her sixth-lifetime win in the $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular. You can read about Colvin’s win and look at pictures from the class […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 16 For the U.S. team, the Longines Nations Cup of the United States of America played out a little bit like it was scripted for TV in order to produce the most drama possible. In the first round, only Laura Kraut and Confu jumped clean for the home team, and Margie Engle and […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 16 Geoffrey Hesslink had a very specific plan as he headed into the $10,000 1.40-meter jumper class at the 2019 Hampton Classic (New York). His week was already off to a great start with top ribbons in the local hunters and a third-placed finish in the $30,000 Open Jumper Challenge the previous Sunday. […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 15 The annual $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular is always a mixed bag of competitors. There are the veteran partnerships who have ribboned at all of the top shows throughout the country, amateurs and juniors competing in their first feature class, and then there are the pairings that just get […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 15 Looking at the emotion across Rachel Cornacchia’s face following Friday night’s $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival, you would’ve thought she won the whole thing. In a way she did. In only her second week competing in the international classes at WEF, the 30-year-old Canadian rider took second behind […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 14 Before she even landed off the first fence of the jump-off in the $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix, Jessica Springsteen was pretty sure she’d already lost. She and Volage Du Val Henry had a little bit of a miscommunication on take-off to that first jump and elicited some gasps from the crowd. The […]
Beezie Madden will semi-retire from high-performance sport following the 2020 Olympic Games, which will be held Jul. 24 – Aug. 9 in Tokyo. Going forward, Madden, 56, of Cazenovia, New York, will focus instead on developing horses and riders to the championship level. “With the horses we have now, we’re 100 percent committed to trying […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 14 The day couldn’t have been more different than last week’s $401,000 Fidelity Investments CSI5* Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Today riders traveled down the street to the Palm Beach Masters at Deeridge Farm to contest the $213,300 Longines Grand Prix out on the grass field. And while last week’s class […]
Wednesday I woke up unmotivated and feeling “heavy.” I just wanted to curl up on the couch and play games on my phone. Luckily, Wednesday is my non-barn day (I’d love to call it a day off, but Wednesdays I generally attend to the ever-growing office work pile), so I did. After about an hour […]
Bringing spectators to the sport is an ongoing challenge in the equestrian world. In our 2020 Legends & Traditions issue, Laura Lemon discusses how traditional classes, such as the puissance or gambler’s choice, have diminished due to the exhibitor-driven model (read her Commentary here: https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/from-the-magazine-are-you-not-entertained). But this isn’t a new issue. In 1954, editor Alexander […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 17 Few riders have accomplished as much as Tori Colvin, especially as early in their career. And she just keeps adding to her list of accomplishments, with her sixth-lifetime win in the $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular. You can read about Colvin’s win and look at pictures from the class […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 16 For the U.S. team, the Longines Nations Cup of the United States of America played out a little bit like it was scripted for TV in order to produce the most drama possible. In the first round, only Laura Kraut and Confu jumped clean for the home team, and Margie Engle and […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 16 Geoffrey Hesslink had a very specific plan as he headed into the $10,000 1.40-meter jumper class at the 2019 Hampton Classic (New York). His week was already off to a great start with top ribbons in the local hunters and a third-placed finish in the $30,000 Open Jumper Challenge the previous Sunday. […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 15 The annual $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular is always a mixed bag of competitors. There are the veteran partnerships who have ribboned at all of the top shows throughout the country, amateurs and juniors competing in their first feature class, and then there are the pairings that just get […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 15 Looking at the emotion across Rachel Cornacchia’s face following Friday night’s $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival, you would’ve thought she won the whole thing. In a way she did. In only her second week competing in the international classes at WEF, the 30-year-old Canadian rider took second behind […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 14 Before she even landed off the first fence of the jump-off in the $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix, Jessica Springsteen was pretty sure she’d already lost. She and Volage Du Val Henry had a little bit of a miscommunication on take-off to that first jump and elicited some gasps from the crowd. The […]
Beezie Madden will semi-retire from high-performance sport following the 2020 Olympic Games, which will be held Jul. 24 – Aug. 9 in Tokyo. Going forward, Madden, 56, of Cazenovia, New York, will focus instead on developing horses and riders to the championship level. “With the horses we have now, we’re 100 percent committed to trying […]
Wellington, Fla.—Feb. 14 The day couldn’t have been more different than last week’s $401,000 Fidelity Investments CSI5* Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Today riders traveled down the street to the Palm Beach Masters at Deeridge Farm to contest the $213,300 Longines Grand Prix out on the grass field. And while last week’s class […]
Wednesday I woke up unmotivated and feeling “heavy.” I just wanted to curl up on the couch and play games on my phone. Luckily, Wednesday is my non-barn day (I’d love to call it a day off, but Wednesdays I generally attend to the ever-growing office work pile), so I did. After about an hour […]
Bringing spectators to the sport is an ongoing challenge in the equestrian world. In our 2020 Legends & Traditions issue, Laura Lemon discusses how traditional classes, such as the puissance or gambler’s choice, have diminished due to the exhibitor-driven model (read her Commentary here: https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/from-the-magazine-are-you-not-entertained). But this isn’t a new issue. In 1954, editor Alexander […]
