The U.S. Equestrian Federation is pleased to announce the updated U.S. Dressage Elite and Pre-Elite Lists for 2020. The Elite Program was established to provide support and resources to athlete/horse combinations that have proven they are internationally competitive. Membership is reviewed twice annually and new members may be added on a rolling basis. “We have […]
I love my job. I really do. I get to spend my career following my passion. But like most things, it comes at a cost. So many professionals have died lately, and more are opening up about their battles with depression. I feel the need to pull back the rug a little and try to […]
In your riding lessons, have you ever heard your instructor repeat the same correction, over and over, but felt too weak to maintain it? Can you identify aspects of your own riding position or technique that you wish you could improve? Do you ever feel as though no matter how hard you try, certain position […]
It’s time to put my big girl pants on. I have to take a deep breath and be rational. I have avoided equestrian goal setting for long enough. I have made excuses, both valid and invalid, as to why I have avoided it. For example, I don’t want to put the goal ahead of the […]
This is the final article in a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Depending on the day, working in Thoroughbred aftercare can feel especially impactful or incredibly futile. On one hand, horse racing has accomplished so much in a short amount of time in its quest to take care of Thoroughbreds leaving the track. […]
In the Chronicle’s new series, we follow riders throughout a typical day. First up is five-star event rider Sinead Halpin. Based in Citra, Florida, with her husband Tik Maynard and her son Brooks Maynard, Halpin has competed at the advanced level since 1999. With her top horse Manoir De Carneville, she finished third in her […]
Edward L. Woods, MD, has experienced plenty of exhilaration. He graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (New York), volunteered for the Navy in 1968 to fly combat missions in Vietnam, attended medical school when he came home, and performed thousands of lifesaving procedures during a 42-year career as a cardiothoracic surgeon. Not wanting to […]
Jennifer Bolton doesn’t like to talk about the incident that left her struggling to walk and talk six years ago. She’d much rather share the story of the life she’s built beyond it, and the role horses—and the Chronicle’s Lose The Leathers Challenge—played in making her whole. An art teacher for students at alternative schools, […]
When Danny first got sick, it was one in a series of disasters for me. I had a string of personal and professional challenges, all in a row, and unrelenting. I normally err on the side of optimism, to a sometimes annoying degree, but it got harder and harder to do so. I’m not an […]
Pavarotti has been a familiar face at the top of the North American eventing scene for almost a decade with Jessica Phoenix. Despite being a new partnership in early 2011, Phoenix and Pavarotti became Canada’s gold medal-winning heroes of that summer’s Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. The pair followed that up by winning individual […]
I love my job. I really do. I get to spend my career following my passion. But like most things, it comes at a cost. So many professionals have died lately, and more are opening up about their battles with depression. I feel the need to pull back the rug a little and try to […]
In your riding lessons, have you ever heard your instructor repeat the same correction, over and over, but felt too weak to maintain it? Can you identify aspects of your own riding position or technique that you wish you could improve? Do you ever feel as though no matter how hard you try, certain position […]
It’s time to put my big girl pants on. I have to take a deep breath and be rational. I have avoided equestrian goal setting for long enough. I have made excuses, both valid and invalid, as to why I have avoided it. For example, I don’t want to put the goal ahead of the […]
This is the final article in a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Depending on the day, working in Thoroughbred aftercare can feel especially impactful or incredibly futile. On one hand, horse racing has accomplished so much in a short amount of time in its quest to take care of Thoroughbreds leaving the track. […]
In the Chronicle’s new series, we follow riders throughout a typical day. First up is five-star event rider Sinead Halpin. Based in Citra, Florida, with her husband Tik Maynard and her son Brooks Maynard, Halpin has competed at the advanced level since 1999. With her top horse Manoir De Carneville, she finished third in her […]
Edward L. Woods, MD, has experienced plenty of exhilaration. He graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (New York), volunteered for the Navy in 1968 to fly combat missions in Vietnam, attended medical school when he came home, and performed thousands of lifesaving procedures during a 42-year career as a cardiothoracic surgeon. Not wanting to […]
Jennifer Bolton doesn’t like to talk about the incident that left her struggling to walk and talk six years ago. She’d much rather share the story of the life she’s built beyond it, and the role horses—and the Chronicle’s Lose The Leathers Challenge—played in making her whole. An art teacher for students at alternative schools, […]
When Danny first got sick, it was one in a series of disasters for me. I had a string of personal and professional challenges, all in a row, and unrelenting. I normally err on the side of optimism, to a sometimes annoying degree, but it got harder and harder to do so. I’m not an […]
Pavarotti has been a familiar face at the top of the North American eventing scene for almost a decade with Jessica Phoenix. Despite being a new partnership in early 2011, Phoenix and Pavarotti became Canada’s gold medal-winning heroes of that summer’s Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. The pair followed that up by winning individual […]
