The Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L entry list went live today, and 52 pairs will look to tackle the biggest event in the United States on April 25-28, in Lexington, Kentucky. Riders from seven countries will compete, including reigning Kentucky champion and world No. 1 Oliver Townend on Cooley Master Class, although the pair are cross-entered […]
The 1968 National Horse Show was in full swing, and spectators filled the stands of Madison Square Garden in New York City, gathered together to watch some of the world’s best riders make a run for the wall. The puissance class featured legends like Ben O’Meara and Kathy Kusner. Riding alongside them was 21-year-old Betsy […]
Picture this. You’re grooming at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games (North Carolina) for Adrienne Sternlicht, the youngest member of Team USA. Your charge, Cristalline, is usually a good girl, but every now and then she can have a moment. You’re hand walking her in the ring and sharing space with Olympic gold medalist Steve […]
Kate Baldino is one of those people who believes passionately in finding your joy—in life, in the saddle, and in her case, over thousands of miles of open terrain, hills and woods. Baldino, 20, is a competitive endurance rider who has logged over 2,200 miles in the saddle since she began in the discipline at […]
The Show Jumping Hall of Fame announced it has elected Robert Ridland, Peter Doubleday, Colonel John W. “Gyp” Wofford, and Bold Minstrel as the inductees for 2019. They will be honored at the Show Jumping Hall of Fame’s annual induction ceremony at the Devon Horse Show (Pennsylvania). Induction into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame […]
Four people, two horses and two horse shows will be inducted into the National Show Hunter Hall Of Fame for 2019. Carleton Brooks, William Ellis, Meredith McLaughlin, Marguerite Taylor, Classic Importer, Watership Down, the Devon Horse Show (Pennsylvania) and the Deeridge USHJA International Hunter Derby (Florida) will all be honored at the annual National Show […]
If you’re looking for Big Shot at a horse show, your best bet may be to stand near the winner’s circle and keep an eye out for a handsome bay covered in ribbons. True to his name, Big Shot has been winning with top hunter rider Jenny Karazissis in the irons since his hunter debut […]
Paris—March 23 I’m sure many of our readers can remember growing up playing with toy horses—I mean, what horse-crazy adult didn’t at one point line up all their plastic ponies for an epic race down the hallway or across the kitchen? When I was a kid I had this little toy castle that came with […]
For Kelsey Maloney, the two weeks she spent showing at the Gulf Coast Winter Classic in Gulfport, Mississippi, were nothing short of magical. Riding her own mare La Coco, Maloney, 22, topped a deep field of experienced riders in the $25,000 CWD Grand Prix on March 3 to earn her first career win at that […]
Jennie Brannigan is recovering at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, after falling from FE Lifestyle on cross-country at the Cloud 11-Gavilan North LLC Carolina Interntional on March 23. Brannigan fell at the coffin, fence 7, on Ian Stark’s course. FE Lifestyle was uninjured. She’d fallen from Twilightslastgleam on cross-country […]