Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 8 The sky was the limit for Jennifer Drescher and Blue And White Raven after they finished as reserve champions at the 2017 U.S. Dressage Finals in the adult amateur Grand Prix freestyle division, but upon returning home to Urbana, Maryland, Drescher noticed something was off. The now-18-year-old Morgan gelding (Night Hawk Of […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 8 After competing at a dressage show at Estes Park (Colorado) in August, Carrie Washburn was up early the next day for her job at a Caterpillar dealership. An hour after arriving, she felt sick with chills. Assuming it was a cold or the flu, she headed home, but things quickly took a […]
Muddy Brook Farm in Amherst, Massachusetts, lost three school horses in a fire on Nov. 3. The cause of the fire is not yet known, but it destroyed the entire building. The horses who perished were Leah and Noah, ponies used in Muddy Brook’s lesson program and in intercollegiate and Interscholastic Equestrian Association events, as […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 7 Heather Mason has known RTF Lincoln since he was a foal, and their partnership has grown as the Oldenburg-Holsteiner has moved up the levels. From backing him to making it to Grand Prix, Mason’s been there the whole way, either in the saddle or watching his previous owner compete him. Mason and […]
If it weren’t for Shadow’s Oliver, Mary Zoldak might never have started on her journey in dressage, but now she’s at the U.S. Dressage Finals riding in her last competition with the Gypsy Vanner gelding and closing a chapter. “ ‘Ollie’ has been such a superstar for such an unusual breed and has done very […]
Olympian Lendon Gray has gone from cantering down centerline at Grand Prix to passionately educating today’s young riders. Her Dressage4Kids program holds a variety of educational clinics across the country, sponsors Youth Dressage Festivals in multiple locations, and hosts the three-month Winter Intensive Training program in Wellington, Florida. Gray firmly believes that no-stirrup work, especially […]
Sydney Shulman has never known a bond like the one she shares with Villamoura. “I get on her, and it’s just the most comfortable I’ve ever felt on any horse,” said Shulman, 24, who won the $50,000 1.50-meter speed final and the $36,000 1.45-meter accumulator class at the Washington International Horse Show with her 10-year-old […]
Brian Moggre was 15 when MTM Farm’s Mike McCormick and Tracy Fenney imported the now 10-year-old Westphalian gelding MTM Vivre Le Reve (Ustinov—Chellana, Chello II). His family’s Major Wager LLC purchased “Erkel” that December, and Moggre began competing him in the junior jumper division. It didn’t take long for the pair to progress to national grand prix classes, and before […]
Dear Rita, Sometimes in life all paths converge to take you to a place you always wanted to be. For me, that place was at the helm of a trainer’s educational workshop in Oregon. Turn the clock back to last spring when I first spoke with Lisa Koch, a director of the Oregon Dressage Society, […]
Lying in the dirt at a hunter schooling show in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, on Labor Day Weekend 2015, Kelly Smith had a lot to contemplate, even more than the average rider who watches their horse gallop away after dumping them on course. She hit hard—first with her back, right where she’d undergone a lumbar fusion […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 8 The sky was the limit for Jennifer Drescher and Blue And White Raven after they finished as reserve champions at the 2017 U.S. Dressage Finals in the adult amateur Grand Prix freestyle division, but upon returning home to Urbana, Maryland, Drescher noticed something was off. The now-18-year-old Morgan gelding (Night Hawk Of […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 8 After competing at a dressage show at Estes Park (Colorado) in August, Carrie Washburn was up early the next day for her job at a Caterpillar dealership. An hour after arriving, she felt sick with chills. Assuming it was a cold or the flu, she headed home, but things quickly took a […]
Muddy Brook Farm in Amherst, Massachusetts, lost three school horses in a fire on Nov. 3. The cause of the fire is not yet known, but it destroyed the entire building. The horses who perished were Leah and Noah, ponies used in Muddy Brook’s lesson program and in intercollegiate and Interscholastic Equestrian Association events, as […]
Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 7 Heather Mason has known RTF Lincoln since he was a foal, and their partnership has grown as the Oldenburg-Holsteiner has moved up the levels. From backing him to making it to Grand Prix, Mason’s been there the whole way, either in the saddle or watching his previous owner compete him. Mason and […]
If it weren’t for Shadow’s Oliver, Mary Zoldak might never have started on her journey in dressage, but now she’s at the U.S. Dressage Finals riding in her last competition with the Gypsy Vanner gelding and closing a chapter. “ ‘Ollie’ has been such a superstar for such an unusual breed and has done very […]
Olympian Lendon Gray has gone from cantering down centerline at Grand Prix to passionately educating today’s young riders. Her Dressage4Kids program holds a variety of educational clinics across the country, sponsors Youth Dressage Festivals in multiple locations, and hosts the three-month Winter Intensive Training program in Wellington, Florida. Gray firmly believes that no-stirrup work, especially […]
Sydney Shulman has never known a bond like the one she shares with Villamoura. “I get on her, and it’s just the most comfortable I’ve ever felt on any horse,” said Shulman, 24, who won the $50,000 1.50-meter speed final and the $36,000 1.45-meter accumulator class at the Washington International Horse Show with her 10-year-old […]
Brian Moggre was 15 when MTM Farm’s Mike McCormick and Tracy Fenney imported the now 10-year-old Westphalian gelding MTM Vivre Le Reve (Ustinov—Chellana, Chello II). His family’s Major Wager LLC purchased “Erkel” that December, and Moggre began competing him in the junior jumper division. It didn’t take long for the pair to progress to national grand prix classes, and before […]
Dear Rita, Sometimes in life all paths converge to take you to a place you always wanted to be. For me, that place was at the helm of a trainer’s educational workshop in Oregon. Turn the clock back to last spring when I first spoke with Lisa Koch, a director of the Oregon Dressage Society, […]
Lying in the dirt at a hunter schooling show in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, on Labor Day Weekend 2015, Kelly Smith had a lot to contemplate, even more than the average rider who watches their horse gallop away after dumping them on course. She hit hard—first with her back, right where she’d undergone a lumbar fusion […]
