It’s USHJA championship week in the Kentucky Horse Park with both the Platinum Performance USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championships and the Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship taking center stage. The week kicks off with the green incentive, where we’ll get a look at the sport’s rising stars. Many of the top horses showing […]
I grew up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and when I started riding at age 7 I immediately became involved in the Outer Banks Pony Club. I participated in many rallies including the Pony Club National Championships in multiple disciplines. I regularly rated with my club and was very involved in a Pony […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug 12 It’s one of the more adorable times of the year, and the one week where all of the competition is completely centered around the pony. USEF Pony Finals is full of stiff competition, and we wrote about all of the winners, as well as a touching story about a very special competitor. […]
The U.S. Center for SafeSport and the U.S. Equestrian Federation added two equestrians to the SafeSport suspensions list on Aug. 9. Grand Prix dressage rider Michael Barisone is listed as ineligible due to criminal disposition, after the Washington County (New Jersey) Police charged him with attempted murder and weapons offenses on Aug. 8, following a […]
Jennifer Chapin suffered a fatal accident on Aug. 11 in the cross-country warm-up at the GMHA Festival Of Eventing August Horse Trials in South Woodstock, Vermont. Chapin, 32, Wenham, Massachusetts, was riding Joinem, a 12-year-old Thoroughbred gelding (Johar—Keemon, Goldneyev), when they had a rotational fall over a roll top. Joinem was reported to be uninjured […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 11 As early as the first braid knotted and the first shampoo bath given, Kat Fuqua’s week had already turned tricolor. On Aug. 7, Fuqua and Prestige opened up USEF Pony Finals by earning the first championship of the 2019 edition in the large pony division. Then she was ecstatic, taking her fancy […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 11 Tasting the salty hints of summer coming through, Julia Sipp just had a few more days left of school before classes no longer disrupted her riding schedule. The 11-year-old had some big plans for her two ponies, Land’s End Lady Slipper and Sparkle, that included the Vermont Summer Festival, Lake Placid (New […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 10 After eight years of competing at USEF Pony Finals, Sky Miles is ending her career with a bang. She didn’t touch a fence all weekend across four rounds of the U.S. Pony Jumper National Championship with Hallie Rush to earn individual gold today in her last competition before retiring to be bred. […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 10 When looking at Alexa Lignelli’s record—if you are able to scroll through the entire 111 pages of it—tricolors from the most prestigious horse shows in the country decorate her name. From the Devon Horse Show (Pennsylvania) to the Washington International (District of Columbia), from the Pennsylvania National to the Hampton Classic (New […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 9 Tessa Downey didn’t know exactly what she was getting into this week. All she knew was that her coach Peter Pletcher had called her and explained that he needed her to take on a large green catch-ride at USEF Pony Finals. But that was the extent to her knowledge coming to Kentucky. […]
It’s USHJA championship week in the Kentucky Horse Park with both the Platinum Performance USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championships and the Platinum Performance USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship taking center stage. The week kicks off with the green incentive, where we’ll get a look at the sport’s rising stars. Many of the top horses showing […]
I grew up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and when I started riding at age 7 I immediately became involved in the Outer Banks Pony Club. I participated in many rallies including the Pony Club National Championships in multiple disciplines. I regularly rated with my club and was very involved in a Pony […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug 12 It’s one of the more adorable times of the year, and the one week where all of the competition is completely centered around the pony. USEF Pony Finals is full of stiff competition, and we wrote about all of the winners, as well as a touching story about a very special competitor. […]
The U.S. Center for SafeSport and the U.S. Equestrian Federation added two equestrians to the SafeSport suspensions list on Aug. 9. Grand Prix dressage rider Michael Barisone is listed as ineligible due to criminal disposition, after the Washington County (New Jersey) Police charged him with attempted murder and weapons offenses on Aug. 8, following a […]
Jennifer Chapin suffered a fatal accident on Aug. 11 in the cross-country warm-up at the GMHA Festival Of Eventing August Horse Trials in South Woodstock, Vermont. Chapin, 32, Wenham, Massachusetts, was riding Joinem, a 12-year-old Thoroughbred gelding (Johar—Keemon, Goldneyev), when they had a rotational fall over a roll top. Joinem was reported to be uninjured […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 11 As early as the first braid knotted and the first shampoo bath given, Kat Fuqua’s week had already turned tricolor. On Aug. 7, Fuqua and Prestige opened up USEF Pony Finals by earning the first championship of the 2019 edition in the large pony division. Then she was ecstatic, taking her fancy […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 11 Tasting the salty hints of summer coming through, Julia Sipp just had a few more days left of school before classes no longer disrupted her riding schedule. The 11-year-old had some big plans for her two ponies, Land’s End Lady Slipper and Sparkle, that included the Vermont Summer Festival, Lake Placid (New […]
Lexington, Ky.—Aug. 10 After eight years of competing at USEF Pony Finals, Sky Miles is ending her career with a bang. She didn’t touch a fence all weekend across four rounds of the U.S. Pony Jumper National Championship with Hallie Rush to earn individual gold today in her last competition before retiring to be bred. […]
