The in-gate for an adult jumper class at a national-rated hunter-jumper horse show might be the last place you’d expect to find a 19-year-old Appaloosa with reining bloodlines, but that’s where we first stumbled upon Da Roan Ranger. The gelding was getting ready to compete over the .90-meter track with his owner of the past […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced the nomination of the following athlete-and-horse combinations to the U.S. Dressage Team and alternate for the Lima 2019 Pan American Games. The following athlete-and-horse combinations will compose the U.S. Team (in alphabetical order): Nora Batchelder (Williston, Florida) and Faro SQF, the 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding she owns with Andrea Whitcomb Jennifer Baumert […]
Doug Payne is always busy, whether he’s competing, teaching, or training young horses at DP Equestrian LLC in Aiken, South Carolina, with his wife, Jessica Payne. Doug’s life got even busier following the birth of his son, Hudson, in 2017, and his recent nomination to the U.S. eventing team for the 2019 Pan American Games […]
When Bridgette Miller and Tsunami III crossed the finish line Sunday at the MARS Essex Horse Trials in Far Hills, New Jersey, there were happy tears all around. Not only was this Miller’s first time completing all three phases at the advanced level, but she did it with Sally Cousins’ five-star mare, a horse she’s […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the following combinations to the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team for the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Sweden during the 2019 Falsterbo Horse Show, July 6-14 in Falsterbo, Sweden. Robert Ridland will serve as the chef d’equipe. Eve Jobs (Los Altos Hills, California) Wilton Porter (Wellington, Florida) Chloe Reid (Wellington, Florida) […]
At just 19, Irish rider Michael Pender won the Al Shira’aa Derby at Hickstead (England) on June 23, becoming the youngest ever winner in the 59-year history of this famous showjumping class. Marion Mould (1967 winner) and Michael Whitaker (1980) were both 20 years old when they won the Hickstead Derby, with Marion just a […]
It probably sounds strange to non-horsey folk, but I’ve often thought of the relationship with my horse as akin to a marriage. (Bless him, my husband nods thoughtfully when I say this instead of Googling divorce attorneys. Then again, he knows my mare was in the picture before he was.) We spend way too much […]
A total of 10 countries have put in formal bids to host the 2022 FEI World Championships, including two proposals to host the multi-discipline FEI World Equestrian Games. Bidding countries are Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and the United States of America. More than 20 years […]
The in-gate for an adult jumper class at a national-rated hunter-jumper horse show might be the last place you’d expect to find a 19-year-old Appaloosa with reining bloodlines, but that’s where we first stumbled upon Da Roan Ranger. The gelding was getting ready to compete over the .90-meter track with his owner of the past […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced the nomination of the following athlete-and-horse combinations to the U.S. Dressage Team and alternate for the Lima 2019 Pan American Games. The following athlete-and-horse combinations will compose the U.S. Team (in alphabetical order): Nora Batchelder (Williston, Florida) and Faro SQF, the 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding she owns with Andrea Whitcomb Jennifer Baumert […]
Doug Payne is always busy, whether he’s competing, teaching, or training young horses at DP Equestrian LLC in Aiken, South Carolina, with his wife, Jessica Payne. Doug’s life got even busier following the birth of his son, Hudson, in 2017, and his recent nomination to the U.S. eventing team for the 2019 Pan American Games […]
Havanna 145 has been sporting blue ribbons and leading the lap of honor in Fédération Equestre Internationale dressage competition with Ashley Holzer over the last two years. With scores of 77.22 percent in the Grand Prix freestyle in Tryon, North Carolina, in April and 76.99 percent in the CDI3* freestyle at the Adequan Global Dressage […]
When Bridgette Miller and Tsunami III crossed the finish line Sunday at the MARS Essex Horse Trials in Far Hills, New Jersey, there were happy tears all around. Not only was this Miller’s first time completing all three phases at the advanced level, but she did it with Sally Cousins’ five-star mare, a horse she’s […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the following combinations to the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team for the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Sweden during the 2019 Falsterbo Horse Show, July 6-14 in Falsterbo, Sweden. Robert Ridland will serve as the chef d’equipe. Eve Jobs (Los Altos Hills, California) Wilton Porter (Wellington, Florida) Chloe Reid (Wellington, Florida) […]
At just 19, Irish rider Michael Pender won the Al Shira’aa Derby at Hickstead (England) on June 23, becoming the youngest ever winner in the 59-year history of this famous showjumping class. Marion Mould (1967 winner) and Michael Whitaker (1980) were both 20 years old when they won the Hickstead Derby, with Marion just a […]
It probably sounds strange to non-horsey folk, but I’ve often thought of the relationship with my horse as akin to a marriage. (Bless him, my husband nods thoughtfully when I say this instead of Googling divorce attorneys. Then again, he knows my mare was in the picture before he was.) We spend way too much […]
The Fédération Équestre Internationale allocated host cities for 13 FEI Championships for the next two years and nine FEI Driving World Cup legs for the 2019-2020 season. The FEI Board also allocated nine legs of the FEI Driving World Cup series for the 2020-2021 season. This is the first time that the FEI has launched […]
A total of 10 countries have put in formal bids to host the 2022 FEI World Championships, including two proposals to host the multi-discipline FEI World Equestrian Games. Bidding countries are Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and the United States of America. More than 20 years […]
