The board of directors of Equestrian Events, Inc., the non-profit organization that produces the annual Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event, Kentucky International CSI5* and the USEA American Eventing Championships at the Kentucky Horse Park, has named Molly Day as the organization’s new executive director. She replaces Erin Woodall, who took the helm in September 2023. Day […]
Of the many untruths I have to push back against when working with riders, this one is a biggie: the idea that in order to get over your fear of riding after a fall or runaway or crash, you have to push through it. You don’t. And you probably shouldn’t. Any rider who has tried […]
Tight Lines carried Olympic eventer Will Coleman to multiple championships during the height of the gray gelding’s competitive days. Their accomplishments together included representing the United States at the 2018 World Equestrian Games (North Carolina), winning the national three- and four-star championships at Fair Hill International in 2015 and 2017, when he was 8 and 10, respectively, and […]
The Fédération Equestre International has opened disciplinary proceedings against North Carolina-based five-star eventer Andrew McConnon, it announced Thursday. The case comes eight months after several former employees submitted video and photographic evidence of what they believed were abusive riding practices to both the FEI and the U.S. Equestrian Federation. “The disciplinary proceedings against Mr. McConnon are […]
It was the moment before what would be one of the largest global streaming events of 2024, and Nathan Allan Williams-Bonner could tell that the horse he was responsible for was nervous. Williams-Bonner, a 30-year-old show jumper and newly minted Hollywood stunt rider from San Diego, had a crucial job in the “Beyoncé Bowl,” the […]
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time Five separate wildfires in the Los Angeles area—including two that have rapidly grown to destroy more than 25,000 acres—prompted the mandatory evacuation of what CNN estimates to be more than 150,000 residents. Fueled by a combination of extremely dry conditions and sustained Santa Ana […]
My human is just … a lot. She means well, and she tries hard, but she has a lot of room for improvement. Take, for example, her approach to my management this fall. I won two regional championships and one national championship for us, after which she (wisely) gave me a richly deserved vacation. But […]
Sarah Jarosinski Holy, DVM, DACVAA, is no stranger to test-taking. For 14 years after high school, Jarosinski Holy forged a rigorous path to meet her childhood goal of becoming a veterinarian. But when a devastating cancer diagnosis shocked her in October 2023, just days after her wedding, Jarosinski Holy turned to test-taking again, this time […]
We all think we know what is going on in the industry we love, but after serving as the chair of the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Horse Welfare Commission for the past year, now I do know, and I can’t un-ring that bell. I was sickened, as anyone would be, to hear of some of […]
For over 25 years, the Rattner family’s DevonWood Equestrian Centre in Sherwood, Oregon, has served the Pacific Northwest both as a full-service boarding facility and as home to countless educational and competition opportunities for regional equestrians. Built from the ground up on 40 acres in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Justin and Ginny Rattner in 1998, […]
The board of directors of Equestrian Events, Inc., the non-profit organization that produces the annual Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event, Kentucky International CSI5* and the USEA American Eventing Championships at the Kentucky Horse Park, has named Molly Day as the organization’s new executive director. She replaces Erin Woodall, who took the helm in September 2023. Day […]
Of the many untruths I have to push back against when working with riders, this one is a biggie: the idea that in order to get over your fear of riding after a fall or runaway or crash, you have to push through it. You don’t. And you probably shouldn’t. Any rider who has tried […]
Tight Lines carried Olympic eventer Will Coleman to multiple championships during the height of the gray gelding’s competitive days. Their accomplishments together included representing the United States at the 2018 World Equestrian Games (North Carolina), winning the national three- and four-star championships at Fair Hill International in 2015 and 2017, when he was 8 and 10, respectively, and […]
The Fédération Equestre International has opened disciplinary proceedings against North Carolina-based five-star eventer Andrew McConnon, it announced Thursday. The case comes eight months after several former employees submitted video and photographic evidence of what they believed were abusive riding practices to both the FEI and the U.S. Equestrian Federation. “The disciplinary proceedings against Mr. McConnon are […]
It was the moment before what would be one of the largest global streaming events of 2024, and Nathan Allan Williams-Bonner could tell that the horse he was responsible for was nervous. Williams-Bonner, a 30-year-old show jumper and newly minted Hollywood stunt rider from San Diego, had a crucial job in the “Beyoncé Bowl,” the […]
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time Five separate wildfires in the Los Angeles area—including two that have rapidly grown to destroy more than 25,000 acres—prompted the mandatory evacuation of what CNN estimates to be more than 150,000 residents. Fueled by a combination of extremely dry conditions and sustained Santa Ana […]
My human is just … a lot. She means well, and she tries hard, but she has a lot of room for improvement. Take, for example, her approach to my management this fall. I won two regional championships and one national championship for us, after which she (wisely) gave me a richly deserved vacation. But […]
Sarah Jarosinski Holy, DVM, DACVAA, is no stranger to test-taking. For 14 years after high school, Jarosinski Holy forged a rigorous path to meet her childhood goal of becoming a veterinarian. But when a devastating cancer diagnosis shocked her in October 2023, just days after her wedding, Jarosinski Holy turned to test-taking again, this time […]
We all think we know what is going on in the industry we love, but after serving as the chair of the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Horse Welfare Commission for the past year, now I do know, and I can’t un-ring that bell. I was sickened, as anyone would be, to hear of some of […]
For over 25 years, the Rattner family’s DevonWood Equestrian Centre in Sherwood, Oregon, has served the Pacific Northwest both as a full-service boarding facility and as home to countless educational and competition opportunities for regional equestrians. Built from the ground up on 40 acres in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Justin and Ginny Rattner in 1998, […]
