The 2019 Tryon Block House Races, scheduled for Oct. 5 and hosted by Tryon International Equestrian Center and the Tryon Riding & Hunt Club, have been canceled due to course-development delays and will return to its traditional spring date on April 11, 2020. “TIEC has made a significant investment of time and resources into the completion […]
The U.S Equestrian Team Foundation announced on Aug. 21 that Ariel Grald is the 2019 recipient of the Jacqueline B. Mars International Grant and Ellie MacPhail O’Neal is the recipient of the Jacqueline B. Mars National Grant. Grald, of Vass, North Carolina, has had a standout year with Anne Eldridge’s 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding […]
The Longines FEI European Para Dressage Championships got off to the most dramatic start possible today with a tie at the top of the Grade I individual competition, an exceptionally rare event in the sport. Norway’s Jens-Lasse Dokkan (Aladdin) and Italy’s Sara Morganti (Royal Delight) both scored 75.036%, with Dokkan given the gold after the […]
It’s no secret to anyone who rides horses that time spent with hay in our hair and mane in our hands is therapeutic (hence the well-worn Winston Churchill quote about how good horses are for people). Even if we don’t realize it, we’re engaging in our own sort of equine-assisted therapy every time we ride, […]
While Cairo is laid up with an injury, I’ve been riding Zaiden, the little auction horse I wrote about previously. Having jumped several items that were at least 2-feet tall in the Dom Schramm clinic, I asked Zaiden’s owner Janice Mackey if the little guy could go to a show. We filled out the entry, and […]
Germany claimed the team title for a staggering 24th time at the Longines FEI European Dressage Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands today where the hosts scooped silver and Sweden snatched the bronze. The battle for medal placings was intense, and so too was the contest for the three available qualifying spots at the Tokyo […]
In her second advanced start, Brooke Massie found herself in an unenviable position after dressage with Serendipity at the Bromont CCI4*-S. But she wasn’t worried about her sandbox score in the event held Aug. 16-18 in Bromont, Quebec. “I wasn’t going to win it,” she said. “I was absolutely dead last after dressage, so I […]
Team Germany took the first step on the road to their 24th team title when Dorothee Schneider and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl posted the two best scores on the opening day of the Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands today. Von Bredow-Werndl’s 76.89% with TSF Dalera BB topped the leaderboard until the […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 19 Tori Colvin has gone down in the history books as the first rider win the Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship with three different horses, and her latest winning mount is Bryan Baldwin’s El Primero. You can catch up on all of the Chronicle’s online coverage, and make sure to check […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 17 The in-gate of the Rolex Stadium rippled with nervous tension. As the final few riders headed down the ramp to compete in the handy round for the Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship, gradually more people filtered down to watch. Room along the fence disappeared, and everyone craned their necks to […]
The 2019 Tryon Block House Races, scheduled for Oct. 5 and hosted by Tryon International Equestrian Center and the Tryon Riding & Hunt Club, have been canceled due to course-development delays and will return to its traditional spring date on April 11, 2020. “TIEC has made a significant investment of time and resources into the completion […]
The U.S Equestrian Team Foundation announced on Aug. 21 that Ariel Grald is the 2019 recipient of the Jacqueline B. Mars International Grant and Ellie MacPhail O’Neal is the recipient of the Jacqueline B. Mars National Grant. Grald, of Vass, North Carolina, has had a standout year with Anne Eldridge’s 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding […]
The Longines FEI European Para Dressage Championships got off to the most dramatic start possible today with a tie at the top of the Grade I individual competition, an exceptionally rare event in the sport. Norway’s Jens-Lasse Dokkan (Aladdin) and Italy’s Sara Morganti (Royal Delight) both scored 75.036%, with Dokkan given the gold after the […]
It’s no secret to anyone who rides horses that time spent with hay in our hair and mane in our hands is therapeutic (hence the well-worn Winston Churchill quote about how good horses are for people). Even if we don’t realize it, we’re engaging in our own sort of equine-assisted therapy every time we ride, […]
While Cairo is laid up with an injury, I’ve been riding Zaiden, the little auction horse I wrote about previously. Having jumped several items that were at least 2-feet tall in the Dom Schramm clinic, I asked Zaiden’s owner Janice Mackey if the little guy could go to a show. We filled out the entry, and […]
Germany claimed the team title for a staggering 24th time at the Longines FEI European Dressage Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands today where the hosts scooped silver and Sweden snatched the bronze. The battle for medal placings was intense, and so too was the contest for the three available qualifying spots at the Tokyo […]
In her second advanced start, Brooke Massie found herself in an unenviable position after dressage with Serendipity at the Bromont CCI4*-S. But she wasn’t worried about her sandbox score in the event held Aug. 16-18 in Bromont, Quebec. “I wasn’t going to win it,” she said. “I was absolutely dead last after dressage, so I […]
Team Germany took the first step on the road to their 24th team title when Dorothee Schneider and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl posted the two best scores on the opening day of the Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands today. Von Bredow-Werndl’s 76.89% with TSF Dalera BB topped the leaderboard until the […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 19 Tori Colvin has gone down in the history books as the first rider win the Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship with three different horses, and her latest winning mount is Bryan Baldwin’s El Primero. You can catch up on all of the Chronicle’s online coverage, and make sure to check […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 17 The in-gate of the Rolex Stadium rippled with nervous tension. As the final few riders headed down the ramp to compete in the handy round for the Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship, gradually more people filtered down to watch. Room along the fence disappeared, and everyone craned their necks to […]
