National Show Hunter Hall Of Fame Announces 2019 Inductees

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 […]

Behind The Stall Door With: Big Shot

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 […]

A Horse Show In A Palace: Scenes From The Saut Hermès

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 […]

Brannigan Recovering From Cross-Country Fall At Carolina International CCI4*-S

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 […]

Quail Run Horse Centre Cleans Up After Historic Flooding

Quail Run Horse Centre Inc., in Elkhorn, Nebraska, suffered extensive damage caused by flooding that affected much of the Midwest the week of March 13. A bomb cyclone storm dropped heavy rain on land that was already dealing with snow melt, leading to disastrous flooding in several states.  Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts declared a state of […]

Horse Showing Under The Oaks: Scenes From HITS Ocala

Ocala, Fla.—March 25 After 10 weeks of non-stop action, the winter season at HITS Ocala has come to a close. Nayel Nassar took home the coveted win in the Great American $1 Million Grand Prix, becoming the second rider to win all three of the HITS $1 million classes. As you pack up your bags […]

Lucifer V Sprouts Wings In Great American $1 Million Grand Prix

Ocala, Fla.—March 24 Last week, Nayel Nassar sat at the in-gate for the AIG $1 Million Grand Prix at HITS Desert Circuit in Thermal, California, and watched his chances of taking home the win dwindle as Beezie Madden set a jump-off pace that seemed unbeatable. Exactly a week later, Nassar was the one who was […]

Coyle Ends U25 Career With Win In $50,000 Hermes U25 Series Final

Wellington, Fla.—Mar. 24 Daniel Coyle is one rider you don’t want behind you in a jump-off order. No matter the horse, footing or venue, Coyle is a master of the turn-and-burn, so it’s only fitting that he didn’t walk away empty-handed in the $50,000 Hermes U25 Series Final, the last U25 event of his career before aging […]