At the Chronicle, we like to remember and honor those who came before us in equestrian sport. We love bringing you stories of the past, and we’re lucky to have our archived articles, which date back to the Chronicle’s first publication in 1937, for reference. Here’s a look at the top five Throwback Thursdays from […]
Dear Rita, Devoting one’s life to pursuit of top sport often requires a rider to travel great distances for training and competition. When I was kid, I started transporting horses the old-fashioned way: I once drove my Arabian eight miles down a dirt road in a two-seater cart to get to a 4-H meet. I […]
Sunday was Dec. 1, which begins the start of a new show season. The point counts have reset to zero, and a new set of rule changes is in effect. You can visit the U.S. Equestrian Federation website for a full list of changes, but we’ve highlighted a few you won’t want to ignore. Dressage […]
Anyone who’s spent a day following hounds knows the ideal field hunter can be any shape or color as long as he gets across country safely. This was demonstrated by two eye-catching mounts at different foxhunting events on Nov. 16. Karyn Treble Wilson rode her Idlehour Mayflower at the Cleveland Bay Hunting Day at Hetty […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced updates to the Elite, Pre-Elite and Development Training Lists of U.S. Performance Director Erik Duvander’s Eventing Pathway Program. Full details on the Pathway Program, including selection criteria for the training lists, are available on the USEF website. “With just over eight months until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it is exciting […]
In my center desk drawer in my office at the farm, I keep a rejection letter from The Dressage Foundation. It was from the first time that I’d applied for the Carol Lavell Prize, and it went to two other people that year. I keep it because of the handwritten note from Carol herself on […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association announced Nov. 26 that their board voted to remove two tributes to George Morris: the Hunterdon Cup, an equitation class named after Morris’ stable, and the George H. Morris trophy, awarded to the winner of the Platinum Performance/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship. The Hunterdon Cup will be re-named, and the George […]
We’ve all done it. The thing. The text. The ill-timed question. The snarky remark. The single moment in time that will flip the switch in our barn owner’s brain on their assessment of us: the PIA switch. You are a PIA boarder. The worst. When you’re labeled this way it will forever change your relationship […]
Among the many posts I’ve started writing but not finished over the years is one I began while sitting in an overflow parking lot at the Kentucky Horse Park facing the Alltech Arena. It was still early in our adventures on the A-circuit. My daughters’ dreams of riding in the ASPCA Maclay Finals still seemed […]
Astute watchers of the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s online suspension list likely noticed that around the same time that George Morris appeared on the Center’s website as permanently ineligible (pending appeal, at the time), Jonathan Soresi, who had just gone public in The New York Times describing the relationship he had with Morris as a teenager, was […]
At the Chronicle, we like to remember and honor those who came before us in equestrian sport. We love bringing you stories of the past, and we’re lucky to have our archived articles, which date back to the Chronicle’s first publication in 1937, for reference. Here’s a look at the top five Throwback Thursdays from […]
Dear Rita, Devoting one’s life to pursuit of top sport often requires a rider to travel great distances for training and competition. When I was kid, I started transporting horses the old-fashioned way: I once drove my Arabian eight miles down a dirt road in a two-seater cart to get to a 4-H meet. I […]
Sunday was Dec. 1, which begins the start of a new show season. The point counts have reset to zero, and a new set of rule changes is in effect. You can visit the U.S. Equestrian Federation website for a full list of changes, but we’ve highlighted a few you won’t want to ignore. Dressage […]
Anyone who’s spent a day following hounds knows the ideal field hunter can be any shape or color as long as he gets across country safely. This was demonstrated by two eye-catching mounts at different foxhunting events on Nov. 16. Karyn Treble Wilson rode her Idlehour Mayflower at the Cleveland Bay Hunting Day at Hetty […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced updates to the Elite, Pre-Elite and Development Training Lists of U.S. Performance Director Erik Duvander’s Eventing Pathway Program. Full details on the Pathway Program, including selection criteria for the training lists, are available on the USEF website. “With just over eight months until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it is exciting […]
In my center desk drawer in my office at the farm, I keep a rejection letter from The Dressage Foundation. It was from the first time that I’d applied for the Carol Lavell Prize, and it went to two other people that year. I keep it because of the handwritten note from Carol herself on […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association announced Nov. 26 that their board voted to remove two tributes to George Morris: the Hunterdon Cup, an equitation class named after Morris’ stable, and the George H. Morris trophy, awarded to the winner of the Platinum Performance/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship. The Hunterdon Cup will be re-named, and the George […]
We’ve all done it. The thing. The text. The ill-timed question. The snarky remark. The single moment in time that will flip the switch in our barn owner’s brain on their assessment of us: the PIA switch. You are a PIA boarder. The worst. When you’re labeled this way it will forever change your relationship […]
Among the many posts I’ve started writing but not finished over the years is one I began while sitting in an overflow parking lot at the Kentucky Horse Park facing the Alltech Arena. It was still early in our adventures on the A-circuit. My daughters’ dreams of riding in the ASPCA Maclay Finals still seemed […]
Astute watchers of the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s online suspension list likely noticed that around the same time that George Morris appeared on the Center’s website as permanently ineligible (pending appeal, at the time), Jonathan Soresi, who had just gone public in The New York Times describing the relationship he had with Morris as a teenager, was […]
