Team Belgium, winners in 2015 and again last year, looked supremely confident when topping today’s first round of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final at the Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, Spain. But the battle between the seven countries fighting for the single qualifying spot on offer for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games […]
It’s a good time to be Martin Fuchs. The Swiss rider is No. 2 on the Longines FEI World Rankings list behind his countryman Steve Guerdat and was just nominated for the annual best athlete award by the Fédération Equestre Internationale. The 27-year-old is the reigning European Champion, having ridden his superhorse Clooney 51 to […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.–Oct. 2 Cassandra Kahle has only shown Monday Balous three times, but she made their trip to Capital Challenge a memorable one. On Monday, the pair topped the high performance hunters and qualified for the $30,000 World Championship Hunter Rider Pro Challenge Class, which they won Wednesday night. That victory earned them a […]
To say it’s been a tough month for Gwyneth Babington would be an understatement. Her father, Kevin Babington, injured his spinal cord in a serious fall at the Hampton Classic (New York) on Aug. 30 and spent the last month in the hospital before being transferred to a rehabilitation center. But despite everything, Kevin encouraged […]
The Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium attracts entrants from across the U.S. and Canada, but few will have traveled as far as Shelby Dennis and Bionic to get to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. “We live across the street from the U.S. border in Langley, British Columbia,” said Dennis, 23. “So […]
Officials at the U.S. Eventing Association have announced Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia, as the host of a new fall CCI4*-L. After the Dutta Corp. Fair Hill International (Maryland) was awarded a fall CCI5*-L, organizers at Morven Park, host to beginner novice through advanced horse trial divisions and CCI2*-S, CCI3*-S, CCI4*-S divisions on the first weekend of October, […]
In the last decade, I’ve embraced the educational approach of having one coach. Too many voices in my head aren’t good for me or for my riding; it seemed to muddy the waters. Over the last nine years, I’ve dabbled in the occasional clinic with phenomenal people—USEF and USDF training sessions with the team coaches […]
After months of qualifying shows, the fall indoor season is officially underway. It kicked off Friday, Sept. 27, with Capital Challenge‘s equitation weekend, but there’s still plenty happening. Riders have converged in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, for the chance to vie for glory in the World Champion Hunter Rider challenge classes. Competition continues through Sunday, Oct. 6. […]
Starr Witness (Chello III—Carmen, Veneur) began her competitive career as a show hunter with Emil Spadone and has been an eventer for less than two years, but this striking mare makes an impression everywhere she goes. She won the CCI3*-S at The Fork (North Carolina) and the CCI3*-L at the Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event […]
The U.S. Young Rider Jumping Team put in a dominant performance to finish atop the podium for the gold medal in the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Youth Final CSIOY on Sept. 29, in Opglabbeek, Belgium. Led by Chef d’Equipe Anne Kursinski, the U.S. team consisted of Natalie Dean, Sophie Gochman, Brian Moggre, Giavanna Rinaldi and […]
Team Belgium, winners in 2015 and again last year, looked supremely confident when topping today’s first round of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final at the Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, Spain. But the battle between the seven countries fighting for the single qualifying spot on offer for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games […]
It’s a good time to be Martin Fuchs. The Swiss rider is No. 2 on the Longines FEI World Rankings list behind his countryman Steve Guerdat and was just nominated for the annual best athlete award by the Fédération Equestre Internationale. The 27-year-old is the reigning European Champion, having ridden his superhorse Clooney 51 to […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.–Oct. 2 Cassandra Kahle has only shown Monday Balous three times, but she made their trip to Capital Challenge a memorable one. On Monday, the pair topped the high performance hunters and qualified for the $30,000 World Championship Hunter Rider Pro Challenge Class, which they won Wednesday night. That victory earned them a […]
To say it’s been a tough month for Gwyneth Babington would be an understatement. Her father, Kevin Babington, injured his spinal cord in a serious fall at the Hampton Classic (New York) on Aug. 30 and spent the last month in the hospital before being transferred to a rehabilitation center. But despite everything, Kevin encouraged […]
The Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium attracts entrants from across the U.S. and Canada, but few will have traveled as far as Shelby Dennis and Bionic to get to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. “We live across the street from the U.S. border in Langley, British Columbia,” said Dennis, 23. “So […]
Officials at the U.S. Eventing Association have announced Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia, as the host of a new fall CCI4*-L. After the Dutta Corp. Fair Hill International (Maryland) was awarded a fall CCI5*-L, organizers at Morven Park, host to beginner novice through advanced horse trial divisions and CCI2*-S, CCI3*-S, CCI4*-S divisions on the first weekend of October, […]
In the last decade, I’ve embraced the educational approach of having one coach. Too many voices in my head aren’t good for me or for my riding; it seemed to muddy the waters. Over the last nine years, I’ve dabbled in the occasional clinic with phenomenal people—USEF and USDF training sessions with the team coaches […]
After months of qualifying shows, the fall indoor season is officially underway. It kicked off Friday, Sept. 27, with Capital Challenge‘s equitation weekend, but there’s still plenty happening. Riders have converged in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, for the chance to vie for glory in the World Champion Hunter Rider challenge classes. Competition continues through Sunday, Oct. 6. […]
Starr Witness (Chello III—Carmen, Veneur) began her competitive career as a show hunter with Emil Spadone and has been an eventer for less than two years, but this striking mare makes an impression everywhere she goes. She won the CCI3*-S at The Fork (North Carolina) and the CCI3*-L at the Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event […]
The U.S. Young Rider Jumping Team put in a dominant performance to finish atop the podium for the gold medal in the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Youth Final CSIOY on Sept. 29, in Opglabbeek, Belgium. Led by Chef d’Equipe Anne Kursinski, the U.S. team consisted of Natalie Dean, Sophie Gochman, Brian Moggre, Giavanna Rinaldi and […]
