If you’re a hunter rider, you’ve probably been waiting for this week all year. The Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship kicks off Friday, Aug. 16, and the nation’s top pairs are going to battle it out for the title. The reigning champion Tori Colvin returns with two rides: last year’s winner Private Practice […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 15 In a class that’s dominated by top professionals, you might be surprised to see Sara Taylor’s name as this year’s winner of the Platinum Performance USHJA 3’6″/3’9″ Green Hunter Incentive Championship. But if you’ve been paying attention to the young professional over the last couple of years, you’d know that she was […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 15 One of these days the USHJA might need to rename the Platinum Performance USHJA 3’/3’3″ Green Hunter Incentive Championship after Scott Stewart. In the seven years since the program’s inception, Stewart has won the class four times and is the only rider to win it more than once. This year it was […]
After getting his horses settled at home following a string of victories at the Vermont Summer Festival, July 2 – Aug. 11 in East Dorset, Kevin McCarthy, like many circuit-weary equestrians, headed to his favorite pub to relax. But in his case, he owns the place in Cazenovia, New York. “I always was interested in […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 14 The day belonged to Scott Stewart in the Platinum Performance USHJA 3’/3’3″ Green Hunter Incentive Championship, with his rides taking the top three placings in the second qualifying round. All three horses—Mayflower, Sandstone and Charlemagne—are owned by Betsee Parker and will move forward to tomorrow’s championship round. “I thought they all were […]
Michael Barisone is of no risk to the community, attorney Jeffrey Simms pledged before a judge at the Morris County Courthouse (New Jersey) on Wednesday. The Aug. 14 hearing was to determine whether Barisone would be released from jail on bond after the Aug. 7 shooting at his Hawthorne Hill dressage training facility in Long Valley, New Jersey. […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 14 For many of the competitors at the Platinum Performance USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championships, there’s a fair amount of pressure. They have big expectations for their mounts, and most of them are hoping for a shot at a chunk of the prize money, but for Kira Epstein, coming to the Kentucky Horse […]
On Aug. 14, the family of Lauren Kanarek released a statement regarding the Aug. 7 shooting at Michael Barisone’s Hawthorne Hill dressage training facility in Long Valley, New Jersey: Lauren is still in the hospital recovering from the gunshot wounds inflicted by Michael Barisone. She sustained damage to her chest and lungs, and doctors have performed […]
If ever a pony could be considered royalty, it might be Bit Of Love. Though he stands just 12.1 7/8 hands, “Chester” has no idea he’s looking at the world from a lower perspective. Current rider Maddie Tosh describes him as a horse in a pony body, and he’s certainly earned that description. In the […]
Amateur dressage rider Lauren Kanarek is conscious and able to communicate after receiving two gunshot wounds to the chest on Aug. 7. Her former trainer and landlord, Grand Prix rider Michael Barisone, is at the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown, New Jersey, and is being charged with attempted murder. According to the police report, a woman […]
If you’re a hunter rider, you’ve probably been waiting for this week all year. The Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship kicks off Friday, Aug. 16, and the nation’s top pairs are going to battle it out for the title. The reigning champion Tori Colvin returns with two rides: last year’s winner Private Practice […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 15 In a class that’s dominated by top professionals, you might be surprised to see Sara Taylor’s name as this year’s winner of the Platinum Performance USHJA 3’6″/3’9″ Green Hunter Incentive Championship. But if you’ve been paying attention to the young professional over the last couple of years, you’d know that she was […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 15 One of these days the USHJA might need to rename the Platinum Performance USHJA 3’/3’3″ Green Hunter Incentive Championship after Scott Stewart. In the seven years since the program’s inception, Stewart has won the class four times and is the only rider to win it more than once. This year it was […]
After getting his horses settled at home following a string of victories at the Vermont Summer Festival, July 2 – Aug. 11 in East Dorset, Kevin McCarthy, like many circuit-weary equestrians, headed to his favorite pub to relax. But in his case, he owns the place in Cazenovia, New York. “I always was interested in […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 14 The day belonged to Scott Stewart in the Platinum Performance USHJA 3’/3’3″ Green Hunter Incentive Championship, with his rides taking the top three placings in the second qualifying round. All three horses—Mayflower, Sandstone and Charlemagne—are owned by Betsee Parker and will move forward to tomorrow’s championship round. “I thought they all were […]
Michael Barisone is of no risk to the community, attorney Jeffrey Simms pledged before a judge at the Morris County Courthouse (New Jersey) on Wednesday. The Aug. 14 hearing was to determine whether Barisone would be released from jail on bond after the Aug. 7 shooting at his Hawthorne Hill dressage training facility in Long Valley, New Jersey. […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 14 For many of the competitors at the Platinum Performance USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championships, there’s a fair amount of pressure. They have big expectations for their mounts, and most of them are hoping for a shot at a chunk of the prize money, but for Kira Epstein, coming to the Kentucky Horse […]
On Aug. 14, the family of Lauren Kanarek released a statement regarding the Aug. 7 shooting at Michael Barisone’s Hawthorne Hill dressage training facility in Long Valley, New Jersey: Lauren is still in the hospital recovering from the gunshot wounds inflicted by Michael Barisone. She sustained damage to her chest and lungs, and doctors have performed […]
If ever a pony could be considered royalty, it might be Bit Of Love. Though he stands just 12.1 7/8 hands, “Chester” has no idea he’s looking at the world from a lower perspective. Current rider Maddie Tosh describes him as a horse in a pony body, and he’s certainly earned that description. In the […]
Amateur dressage rider Lauren Kanarek is conscious and able to communicate after receiving two gunshot wounds to the chest on Aug. 7. Her former trainer and landlord, Grand Prix rider Michael Barisone, is at the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown, New Jersey, and is being charged with attempted murder. According to the police report, a woman […]
