Picture a female bodybuilder, bursting with power and energy, strong and confident in herself. That’s pretty much Aquamarijn in a nutshell, except she’s a dressage horse. The Dominican Republic’s Yvonne Losos de Muñiz purchased the challenging 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare (United—Toermalijn, Gribaldi) in the Netherlands from Dutch young rider Fransje van der Meer, who’d trained […]
When? The first day of team dressage competition (small tour contestants do the Prix St. Georges, and the big tour does the Grand Prix) will take place on July 28. The next day, July 29, riders will complete their quest for team medals with the Intermediaire I and Grand Prix Special, and that’s also the second individual qualifier. […]
When Madison Penfound left the start box on QEH Ocean Voyage (Out of Touch—Delta Cruise, Cruising) at his first advanced horse trials, she wanted to focus on giving the precocious 9-year-old Irish Sport Horse a positive and straightforward experience. But “Turtle” had other ideas. After his bold jump into element B at the first water […]
This year’s Pan American Games eventing team features a few new faces, including Tamie Smith, who’s debuting on her first senior U.S. championship team. Smith, 44, was originally named to the team with Judith McSwain’s Fleeceworks Royal, but a minor injury ruled the mare out in early July, so Smith’s headed to Lima, Peru, with […]
The Rolex Grand Prix at the CHIO Aachen is a class every international show jumper wants to win, and some of the best riders in the world have yet to accomplish that. After looking at the wall with previous winners’ names printed on it all week, Kent Farrington was determined to add his name to […]
Officials at the Tryon International Equestrian announced the addition of the Blue Ridge Mountain Horse Trials to the venue’s competition calendar on Sept. 14-15. It will include two days of national competition from beginner novice through advanced, including modified. All levels will run cross-country at the White Oak Course onsite, which was the host of […]
Prior to the jump-off of the Rolex Grand Prix at the CHIO Aachen, in Aachen Germany on July 21, course designer Frank Rothenberger commented that Kent Farrington is one of the fastest riders in the world. Those words proved to be prophetic. With the Belgian-bred Kashmir van Schuttershof daughter, Gazelle, Farrington took top prize. It […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced that Endel Ots (Wellington, Florida) and Lucky Strike will not travel to compete in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Lucky Strike, the 9-year-old Hanoverian gelding owned by Max Ots, sustained injuries during the team transport to Miami, from where the horses were to fly today, July […]
Aachen, Germany—July 21 When you think of the great horses of McLain Ward’s career so far, many of them are mares. And on July 20 at the CHIO Aachen a new mare jumped into the record books with Ward, the 10-year-old Oldenburg Noche De Ronda. They were best out of 32 combinations to tackle the […]
Aachen, Germany—July 18 The team and individual world champions, Isabell Werth and Bella Rose 2, rode to victory in the Prize of Family Tesch Grand Prix at Aachen with a sensational score of 82.78 percent. Second place went to the German champions Dorothee Schneider and Showtime (80.60 percent). To her own surprise, three-time Olympic gold […]
Picture a female bodybuilder, bursting with power and energy, strong and confident in herself. That’s pretty much Aquamarijn in a nutshell, except she’s a dressage horse. The Dominican Republic’s Yvonne Losos de Muñiz purchased the challenging 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare (United—Toermalijn, Gribaldi) in the Netherlands from Dutch young rider Fransje van der Meer, who’d trained […]
When? The first day of team dressage competition (small tour contestants do the Prix St. Georges, and the big tour does the Grand Prix) will take place on July 28. The next day, July 29, riders will complete their quest for team medals with the Intermediaire I and Grand Prix Special, and that’s also the second individual qualifier. […]
When Madison Penfound left the start box on QEH Ocean Voyage (Out of Touch—Delta Cruise, Cruising) at his first advanced horse trials, she wanted to focus on giving the precocious 9-year-old Irish Sport Horse a positive and straightforward experience. But “Turtle” had other ideas. After his bold jump into element B at the first water […]
This year’s Pan American Games eventing team features a few new faces, including Tamie Smith, who’s debuting on her first senior U.S. championship team. Smith, 44, was originally named to the team with Judith McSwain’s Fleeceworks Royal, but a minor injury ruled the mare out in early July, so Smith’s headed to Lima, Peru, with […]
The Rolex Grand Prix at the CHIO Aachen is a class every international show jumper wants to win, and some of the best riders in the world have yet to accomplish that. After looking at the wall with previous winners’ names printed on it all week, Kent Farrington was determined to add his name to […]
Officials at the Tryon International Equestrian announced the addition of the Blue Ridge Mountain Horse Trials to the venue’s competition calendar on Sept. 14-15. It will include two days of national competition from beginner novice through advanced, including modified. All levels will run cross-country at the White Oak Course onsite, which was the host of […]
Prior to the jump-off of the Rolex Grand Prix at the CHIO Aachen, in Aachen Germany on July 21, course designer Frank Rothenberger commented that Kent Farrington is one of the fastest riders in the world. Those words proved to be prophetic. With the Belgian-bred Kashmir van Schuttershof daughter, Gazelle, Farrington took top prize. It […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced that Endel Ots (Wellington, Florida) and Lucky Strike will not travel to compete in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Lucky Strike, the 9-year-old Hanoverian gelding owned by Max Ots, sustained injuries during the team transport to Miami, from where the horses were to fly today, July […]
Aachen, Germany—July 21 When you think of the great horses of McLain Ward’s career so far, many of them are mares. And on July 20 at the CHIO Aachen a new mare jumped into the record books with Ward, the 10-year-old Oldenburg Noche De Ronda. They were best out of 32 combinations to tackle the […]
Aachen, Germany—July 18 The team and individual world champions, Isabell Werth and Bella Rose 2, rode to victory in the Prize of Family Tesch Grand Prix at Aachen with a sensational score of 82.78 percent. Second place went to the German champions Dorothee Schneider and Showtime (80.60 percent). To her own surprise, three-time Olympic gold […]
