Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England—Sept. 19 Young British rider Will Rawlin is in the lead in the CCI4*-L class after the first day of dressage at SsangYong Blenheim Palace Horse Trials. Riding VIP Vinnie, an 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding (Valentino—Gianna Nannini, Grosso Z) owned by his parents Miranda and Andrew Rawlin, the Hungerford-based 25-year-old scored an excellent 24.2 […]
When Ashley Maul found Fiaro Lacendos for sale in a Facebook ad two years ago, she decided to look past some of his “oddities” and take a chance on the upper-level dressage schoolmaster. Over the course of their time together, she’s learned exactly what the 15-year-old Westphalian gelding (Fuerst Piccolo—Reikia, Rapallo) needs to be successful […]
There were two fillies out in Becky’s hilly pasture playing at their dams’ sides. One was slender and quick, a bay so reddish she was practically a chestnut; the other was a more solid-boned dark bay. Both were friendly, coming up to Becky and me for attention, but it was the reddish bay I liked—leggy, […]
As Jennifer Roth pulled out of the Waterloo Hunt Club in Grass Lake, Michigan, following the GAIG/USDF Region 2 Championships, she carried with her an impressive haul of ribbons. But her seven tricolor sashes that hung from her Milestone Farms banner throughout the weekend didn’t mean nearly as much as those earned by her clients. […]
On Sept. 17, the United States Hunter Jumper Foundation announced that Morgan Rosia, 17, of Germantown, Maryland, is the recipient of the 2019 USHJA Foundation J.T Tallon Memorial Equitation Grant, which will help send her to an equitation final this year. “I am honored to be chosen as the J.T Tallon Memorial Equitation Grant recipient […]
The Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team has announced a combination substitution for the FEI Eventing Nations Cup The Netherlands hosted at the Military Boekelo, CCIO4*-L in Enschede, the Netherlands, from October 10-13. Frankie Thieriot Stutes (Occidental, California) and Chatwin have withdrawn their entry and will be replaced by Tamie Smith (Murrieta, California) and Mai Baum, Alexandra […]
Ashley Holzer and her own Valentine have been raking in the ribbons and rocking the FEI dressage small tour in 2019. The 9-year-old Hanoverian mare (Sir Donnerhall—Renaissance, Ragazzo) was a Valentine’s Day gift from Holzer’s husband, Rusty Holzer, and although the horse-and-rider pair won nearly every class they entered during the 2019 Wellington, Florida, show […]
Jessica Springsteen took the biggest win of her career on Sept. 14 with a scintillating victory in the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Ramatuelle/Saint-Tropez (France) in a high caliber 14-strong jump-off. Springsteen reigned supreme riding the 12-year-old bay mare RMF Zecilie beating second-placed rider Pieter Devos by just over a second in a […]
Twice a Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Final champion, Beezie Madden has ridden some exceptional horses, but even she admitted that her expectations were exceeded when 8-year-old Garant jumped her to another World Cup qualifier victory at the American Gold Cup in North Salem, New York on Sept. 15. Madden and the chestnut gelding topped […]
Three years ago this summer, Sarah Invicta Williams-Echols and Quincy Z were coming down to the last line in a grand prix at HIPICO Santa Fe (New Mexico). As they looked at a mostly-green vertical against the green field, Williams-Echols asked “QBear” to take a longer spot. Whether he misread the distance due to the […]
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England—Sept. 19 Young British rider Will Rawlin is in the lead in the CCI4*-L class after the first day of dressage at SsangYong Blenheim Palace Horse Trials. Riding VIP Vinnie, an 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding (Valentino—Gianna Nannini, Grosso Z) owned by his parents Miranda and Andrew Rawlin, the Hungerford-based 25-year-old scored an excellent 24.2 […]
When Ashley Maul found Fiaro Lacendos for sale in a Facebook ad two years ago, she decided to look past some of his “oddities” and take a chance on the upper-level dressage schoolmaster. Over the course of their time together, she’s learned exactly what the 15-year-old Westphalian gelding (Fuerst Piccolo—Reikia, Rapallo) needs to be successful […]
There were two fillies out in Becky’s hilly pasture playing at their dams’ sides. One was slender and quick, a bay so reddish she was practically a chestnut; the other was a more solid-boned dark bay. Both were friendly, coming up to Becky and me for attention, but it was the reddish bay I liked—leggy, […]
As Jennifer Roth pulled out of the Waterloo Hunt Club in Grass Lake, Michigan, following the GAIG/USDF Region 2 Championships, she carried with her an impressive haul of ribbons. But her seven tricolor sashes that hung from her Milestone Farms banner throughout the weekend didn’t mean nearly as much as those earned by her clients. […]
On Sept. 17, the United States Hunter Jumper Foundation announced that Morgan Rosia, 17, of Germantown, Maryland, is the recipient of the 2019 USHJA Foundation J.T Tallon Memorial Equitation Grant, which will help send her to an equitation final this year. “I am honored to be chosen as the J.T Tallon Memorial Equitation Grant recipient […]
The Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team has announced a combination substitution for the FEI Eventing Nations Cup The Netherlands hosted at the Military Boekelo, CCIO4*-L in Enschede, the Netherlands, from October 10-13. Frankie Thieriot Stutes (Occidental, California) and Chatwin have withdrawn their entry and will be replaced by Tamie Smith (Murrieta, California) and Mai Baum, Alexandra […]
Ashley Holzer and her own Valentine have been raking in the ribbons and rocking the FEI dressage small tour in 2019. The 9-year-old Hanoverian mare (Sir Donnerhall—Renaissance, Ragazzo) was a Valentine’s Day gift from Holzer’s husband, Rusty Holzer, and although the horse-and-rider pair won nearly every class they entered during the 2019 Wellington, Florida, show […]
Jessica Springsteen took the biggest win of her career on Sept. 14 with a scintillating victory in the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Ramatuelle/Saint-Tropez (France) in a high caliber 14-strong jump-off. Springsteen reigned supreme riding the 12-year-old bay mare RMF Zecilie beating second-placed rider Pieter Devos by just over a second in a […]
Twice a Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Final champion, Beezie Madden has ridden some exceptional horses, but even she admitted that her expectations were exceeded when 8-year-old Garant jumped her to another World Cup qualifier victory at the American Gold Cup in North Salem, New York on Sept. 15. Madden and the chestnut gelding topped […]
Three years ago this summer, Sarah Invicta Williams-Echols and Quincy Z were coming down to the last line in a grand prix at HIPICO Santa Fe (New Mexico). As they looked at a mostly-green vertical against the green field, Williams-Echols asked “QBear” to take a longer spot. Whether he misread the distance due to the […]
