Lexington, Ky.—April 25 Things looked a lot different the last time Mara DePuy turned down centerline in the main stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park. It was 2010, and the event was still called Rolex Kentucky CCI4*, not the Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L, but returning to the biggest event is still as exciting to DePuy, […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 25 For years it was Michael Jung who sat in the center at the press conference following each phase of the Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L, as he continued to dominate the U.S. event. While Jung isn’t here this year, his mentee, Swiss rider Felix Vogg, took over that spot. And that’s precisely why […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 25 In previous years leading up to the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, Caroline Martin had a singular focus—preparing herself and her horses for the best performance possible. But this year, the 24-year-old has been riding with a different mentality. “My parents’ company isn’t doing so well,” she said. “They work in Central America, and […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 24 Months of preparation have all led up to this. Final gallops were completed, and 42 horses were presented in front of the ground jury for the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. (You can read all about the excitement of the jog and get the low-down on the riders’ outfits here.) Make no […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 24 Forty-one horses from an original start list of 42 will head down centerline for the first phase of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day event after Wednesday’s initial horse inspection. Tactical Maneuver with U.S. rider Ashley Johnson was held, re-presented and not accepted by the ground jury for the start of competition. Erin […]
For the last in our blog series built on the comical premise of an adult amateur hitting the gym with Olympians, I went to Aiken, South Carolina, to work out with eventing legend Boyd Martin! Now bear in mind, prior to Boyd I’d already worked out with Laura Kraut, Kasey Perry-Glass and Beezie Madden. This […]
Virginia Tech is raising money to test equestrian helmets. The Blacksburg-based university’s VT Helmet Lab has been conducting independent safety tests on helmets for sports like football and cycling since 2011. Researchers run helmets that already meet minimum safety standards through tests that mimic real-life conditions and use a star system to rate how well […]
When: The first horse inspection, or jog, is on Wednesday, April 24. Dressage kicks off on Thursday, April 25, with the test ride at 8 a.m. and the first competitor will head down centerline at 8:30 a.m. The remaining pairs will finish their dressage on Friday, April 26, once again starting at 8:30 a.m. The […]
Three horses were killed in a barn fire at hunter/jumper professional Scott Keller’s Townsend Spring Farms in Paris, Kentucky, on April 22. Flames were first spotted in one of the three barns by a working student around 6:30 p.m. They managed to get one of the four horses in the barn out before it started […]
My experience with young horses has been almost exclusively with two kinds. The first are ones with very good characters who weren’t international quality. As they’ve been owned and ridden by amateurs, that’s been by design. They were bought so that their owners could ride them as they developed up the levels, so the trade-off—less […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 25 Things looked a lot different the last time Mara DePuy turned down centerline in the main stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park. It was 2010, and the event was still called Rolex Kentucky CCI4*, not the Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L, but returning to the biggest event is still as exciting to DePuy, […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 25 For years it was Michael Jung who sat in the center at the press conference following each phase of the Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L, as he continued to dominate the U.S. event. While Jung isn’t here this year, his mentee, Swiss rider Felix Vogg, took over that spot. And that’s precisely why […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 25 In previous years leading up to the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, Caroline Martin had a singular focus—preparing herself and her horses for the best performance possible. But this year, the 24-year-old has been riding with a different mentality. “My parents’ company isn’t doing so well,” she said. “They work in Central America, and […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 24 Months of preparation have all led up to this. Final gallops were completed, and 42 horses were presented in front of the ground jury for the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. (You can read all about the excitement of the jog and get the low-down on the riders’ outfits here.) Make no […]
Lexington, Ky.—April 24 Forty-one horses from an original start list of 42 will head down centerline for the first phase of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day event after Wednesday’s initial horse inspection. Tactical Maneuver with U.S. rider Ashley Johnson was held, re-presented and not accepted by the ground jury for the start of competition. Erin […]
For the last in our blog series built on the comical premise of an adult amateur hitting the gym with Olympians, I went to Aiken, South Carolina, to work out with eventing legend Boyd Martin! Now bear in mind, prior to Boyd I’d already worked out with Laura Kraut, Kasey Perry-Glass and Beezie Madden. This […]
Virginia Tech is raising money to test equestrian helmets. The Blacksburg-based university’s VT Helmet Lab has been conducting independent safety tests on helmets for sports like football and cycling since 2011. Researchers run helmets that already meet minimum safety standards through tests that mimic real-life conditions and use a star system to rate how well […]
When: The first horse inspection, or jog, is on Wednesday, April 24. Dressage kicks off on Thursday, April 25, with the test ride at 8 a.m. and the first competitor will head down centerline at 8:30 a.m. The remaining pairs will finish their dressage on Friday, April 26, once again starting at 8:30 a.m. The […]
Three horses were killed in a barn fire at hunter/jumper professional Scott Keller’s Townsend Spring Farms in Paris, Kentucky, on April 22. Flames were first spotted in one of the three barns by a working student around 6:30 p.m. They managed to get one of the four horses in the barn out before it started […]
My experience with young horses has been almost exclusively with two kinds. The first are ones with very good characters who weren’t international quality. As they’ve been owned and ridden by amateurs, that’s been by design. They were bought so that their owners could ride them as they developed up the levels, so the trade-off—less […]
