For our annual Readers’ Choice issue, you guys shared your favorites on everything from apparel to horse shows, but there were a few write-in questions, including: What’s the best advice your trainer has given you? You can read the full results from the Readers’ Choice survey in the June 3 issue, but we’ve compiled our […]
Following her win in the 2019 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, Great Britain’s Piggy French admitted that her winning mount Vanir Kamira was a “pain in the backside” on a day-to-day basis. The sentiment resonated with amateur eventer Samantha Erwin, whose 14-year-old Holsteiner mare Conquistadora (Confucious—Jalna Des Hayettes, Bis De La Mare) poses a similar challenge. […]
Having just one horse to compete can make it tough to get enough practice in, but that’s the reality for many working amateur riders. Trying to make it to the upper levels of eventing can be an even greater challenge, but Caitlin Henderson’s found the balance as a full-time nurse practitioner and advanced-level rider. She’s […]
Serious riders, particularly those of us riding either older horses or horses we hope to get to a Big Level and then enjoy at that level for many years, spend a lot of time thinking about the fine balance between working our horses hard enough to achieve fitness and strength to minimize the risk of injury […]
The U.S. Center for SafeSport will release five online youth training courses the week of June 12. It will include courses for children of pre-school age, grades K-2, grades 3-5, and middle school and high school. These free online training courses are designed as an introduction for minor athletes and their parents or other caregivers to […]
Stephanie Bulger was trying to find a patch of grass to graze her amateur-owner hunter at a horse show when she first started thinking about how competitions could do better by the environment. “I couldn’t find any grass that wasn’t littered with bits of trash and cigarette butts,” Bulger said. Bulger’s husband, Mike Bulger, is […]
Lauren Hough announced June 4 that her 2015 Pan American Games (Ontario) double bronze medal-winning mount Ohlala is retiring from competition and will now have a breeding career. The 15-year-old Swedish Warmblood mare (Orlando—Carrera, Cardento) was shortlisted for the 2018 World Equestrian Games (North Carolina) NetJets U.S. Show Jumping Team when she sustained an injury […]
She’s known around the barn as the “Red Queen,” and Summersby certainly looks the part. JJ Tate has brought the 12-year-old mare up to the international levels, making appearances along the way at venues like Dressage At Devon (Pennsylvania) and the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. Summersby is gearing up for her Grand Prix debut […]
Dressage4Kids has opened applications for the D4K Christian Kennedy Young Adult Scholarship, which is awarded in memory of Christian Kennedy. The scholarship will fund one advanced rider aged 18-26, for the 2020 winter season in Wellington, Florida, January through March 2020. As a young rider, Kennedy was known for his kindness and his horsemanship. Dressage4Kids, Kennedy’s […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation named the following combinations to The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team for the FEI Dressage Nations Cup The Netherlands from June 22-23 in Geesteren, the Netherlands. Debbie McDonald will serve as Chef d’Equipe for the U.S. team. The following combinations are representing The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team for the FEI […]
For our annual Readers’ Choice issue, you guys shared your favorites on everything from apparel to horse shows, but there were a few write-in questions, including: What’s the best advice your trainer has given you? You can read the full results from the Readers’ Choice survey in the June 3 issue, but we’ve compiled our […]
Following her win in the 2019 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, Great Britain’s Piggy French admitted that her winning mount Vanir Kamira was a “pain in the backside” on a day-to-day basis. The sentiment resonated with amateur eventer Samantha Erwin, whose 14-year-old Holsteiner mare Conquistadora (Confucious—Jalna Des Hayettes, Bis De La Mare) poses a similar challenge. […]
Having just one horse to compete can make it tough to get enough practice in, but that’s the reality for many working amateur riders. Trying to make it to the upper levels of eventing can be an even greater challenge, but Caitlin Henderson’s found the balance as a full-time nurse practitioner and advanced-level rider. She’s […]
Serious riders, particularly those of us riding either older horses or horses we hope to get to a Big Level and then enjoy at that level for many years, spend a lot of time thinking about the fine balance between working our horses hard enough to achieve fitness and strength to minimize the risk of injury […]
The U.S. Center for SafeSport will release five online youth training courses the week of June 12. It will include courses for children of pre-school age, grades K-2, grades 3-5, and middle school and high school. These free online training courses are designed as an introduction for minor athletes and their parents or other caregivers to […]
Stephanie Bulger was trying to find a patch of grass to graze her amateur-owner hunter at a horse show when she first started thinking about how competitions could do better by the environment. “I couldn’t find any grass that wasn’t littered with bits of trash and cigarette butts,” Bulger said. Bulger’s husband, Mike Bulger, is […]
Lauren Hough announced June 4 that her 2015 Pan American Games (Ontario) double bronze medal-winning mount Ohlala is retiring from competition and will now have a breeding career. The 15-year-old Swedish Warmblood mare (Orlando—Carrera, Cardento) was shortlisted for the 2018 World Equestrian Games (North Carolina) NetJets U.S. Show Jumping Team when she sustained an injury […]
She’s known around the barn as the “Red Queen,” and Summersby certainly looks the part. JJ Tate has brought the 12-year-old mare up to the international levels, making appearances along the way at venues like Dressage At Devon (Pennsylvania) and the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. Summersby is gearing up for her Grand Prix debut […]
Dressage4Kids has opened applications for the D4K Christian Kennedy Young Adult Scholarship, which is awarded in memory of Christian Kennedy. The scholarship will fund one advanced rider aged 18-26, for the 2020 winter season in Wellington, Florida, January through March 2020. As a young rider, Kennedy was known for his kindness and his horsemanship. Dressage4Kids, Kennedy’s […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation named the following combinations to The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team for the FEI Dressage Nations Cup The Netherlands from June 22-23 in Geesteren, the Netherlands. Debbie McDonald will serve as Chef d’Equipe for the U.S. team. The following combinations are representing The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team for the FEI […]
