Tall, dark and handsome, Carl and Cassandra Segal’s 17-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Park Trader (Master Imp—Ballyhast Polly, Highland King) seems to have it all going for him. Appropriately nicknamed “Kobe” after superstar basketball player Kobe Bryant thanks to his outstanding athletic prowess, the five-star veteran has become a familiar face galloping around the Land […]
In 1983, Leslie Howard rode to her first grand prix victory at Old Salem Farm aboard Albany, the horse that later carried her to win a team gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. On May 19, she returned to familiar territory and claimed another milestone win at the North Salem, New […]
The highlight of the Kentucky Spring Classic took place on May 18 with the $134,000 Mary Rena Murphy Grand Prix CSI3*. Hosted in the Rolex Stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park, top horse-and-rider combinations took to the ring hoping to walk away with the week’s highest honors and prize money. After 40 athletes tried their […]
The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team is headed to their first European team competition of the year for the FEI Dressage Nations Cup France from May 18-19 at Les Internationaux de Dressage in Compiègne. Led by U.S. Dressage Development Coach Charlotte Bredahl, the team will go head-to-head with six other teams when competition gets underway on […]
For most amateurs, horses are a lifestyle that must be delicately perched between daily responsibilities and our dreams. Within this crowd are members of the U.S. Armed Forces, who face deployments and reassignments that keep them and their horse habit on the move. In my eight years of active duty service, I have moved my […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale would like to warn the equestrian community regarding synephrine, a substance listed as a banned substance (specified substance*) on the Equine Prohibited Substances List. Synephrine is also a banned substance under U.S. Equestrian Federation drugs and medications rules. A high number of samples taken from horses under the Equine Anti-Doping and […]
Courtney Sendak wasn’t looking to add another horse to her barn seven years ago, especially a 5-year-old, plain bay Thoroughbred mare with a “quirky”—read “dangerous” personality. Sendak had made a business of flipping off-the-track Thoroughbreds. She was hoping to save enough money to buy a purpose-bred event horse after her advanced Connemara Wil‘Ya Love Me […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced the updated U.S. Dressage Elite and Pre-Elite Lists for 2019. The Elite Program was established to provide support and resources to athlete/horse combinations that have proven they are internationally competitive. Combinations qualify for the program based on scores received at CDI3*/CDIO3* or above competitions in the last 12 months. View the […]
Remember how I wrote last time about Swagger, and how he was perfect, and I was having to restrain myself from pressing on too hard? Well, I came home from three days of teaching a clinic in Florida to a horse that was about 2 inches taller behind, with absolutely no ability to lift his […]
Laura Dampf knew there was something special about the palomino mare Althea the moment she laid eyes on her three years ago. “Thea,” then 3 years old, was a beautiful reminder of the palomino-colored horses Dampf grew up around. So when she realized Thea had the scope and movement of a show hunter, Dampf committed to turning the young horse into a top […]
Tall, dark and handsome, Carl and Cassandra Segal’s 17-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Park Trader (Master Imp—Ballyhast Polly, Highland King) seems to have it all going for him. Appropriately nicknamed “Kobe” after superstar basketball player Kobe Bryant thanks to his outstanding athletic prowess, the five-star veteran has become a familiar face galloping around the Land […]
In 1983, Leslie Howard rode to her first grand prix victory at Old Salem Farm aboard Albany, the horse that later carried her to win a team gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. On May 19, she returned to familiar territory and claimed another milestone win at the North Salem, New […]
The highlight of the Kentucky Spring Classic took place on May 18 with the $134,000 Mary Rena Murphy Grand Prix CSI3*. Hosted in the Rolex Stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park, top horse-and-rider combinations took to the ring hoping to walk away with the week’s highest honors and prize money. After 40 athletes tried their […]
The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team is headed to their first European team competition of the year for the FEI Dressage Nations Cup France from May 18-19 at Les Internationaux de Dressage in Compiègne. Led by U.S. Dressage Development Coach Charlotte Bredahl, the team will go head-to-head with six other teams when competition gets underway on […]
For most amateurs, horses are a lifestyle that must be delicately perched between daily responsibilities and our dreams. Within this crowd are members of the U.S. Armed Forces, who face deployments and reassignments that keep them and their horse habit on the move. In my eight years of active duty service, I have moved my […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale would like to warn the equestrian community regarding synephrine, a substance listed as a banned substance (specified substance*) on the Equine Prohibited Substances List. Synephrine is also a banned substance under U.S. Equestrian Federation drugs and medications rules. A high number of samples taken from horses under the Equine Anti-Doping and […]
Courtney Sendak wasn’t looking to add another horse to her barn seven years ago, especially a 5-year-old, plain bay Thoroughbred mare with a “quirky”—read “dangerous” personality. Sendak had made a business of flipping off-the-track Thoroughbreds. She was hoping to save enough money to buy a purpose-bred event horse after her advanced Connemara Wil‘Ya Love Me […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced the updated U.S. Dressage Elite and Pre-Elite Lists for 2019. The Elite Program was established to provide support and resources to athlete/horse combinations that have proven they are internationally competitive. Combinations qualify for the program based on scores received at CDI3*/CDIO3* or above competitions in the last 12 months. View the […]
Remember how I wrote last time about Swagger, and how he was perfect, and I was having to restrain myself from pressing on too hard? Well, I came home from three days of teaching a clinic in Florida to a horse that was about 2 inches taller behind, with absolutely no ability to lift his […]
Laura Dampf knew there was something special about the palomino mare Althea the moment she laid eyes on her three years ago. “Thea,” then 3 years old, was a beautiful reminder of the palomino-colored horses Dampf grew up around. So when she realized Thea had the scope and movement of a show hunter, Dampf committed to turning the young horse into a top […]
