Life’s a dance for Emily Arriaga. The metaphor is more literal for her than most, as she has been dancing since age 4 and has her sights set on a career as a professional, and because she’s learned over her life to balance that passion with her passion for horses, which she also hopes to […]
Legendary show jumper and Thoroughbred trainer Rodney Jenkins died in his sleep Thursday Dec. 5, reported the Daily Racing Form. He was 80. Jenkins grew up on the back of a horse, as his father, Enis Jenkins, was the huntsman for Manly Carter’s private pack in Orange, Virginia, before taking a position at the now-defunct […]
What started with tragedy—the death of show jumper Chromatic BF—has evolved into a promising, uniquely wide-ranging effort to improve health and welfare for all sport horses. This week, the U.S. Equestrian Federation, the American Association of Equine Practitioners, the Foundation for the Horse, and “Chromatic’s” breeder, Kc Branscomb, announced the details of the “Chromatic Fund,” […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale has suspended British Olympic dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin for one year and fined her $11,321 (10,000 Swiss francs) in response to a video released last year which showed her whipping a horse around its legs more than 20 times during a training session. The FEI Tribunal decision, released today, concludes its […]
With seven major equitation finals wins and 18 finals ribbons total, Grappa’s tenure in the equitation ring is unmatched. He dominated that arena from 1996, when he won his first final with Lauren Bass, until his retirement in 2009. And for Sarah Willeman Doran, he was the magical partner with whom she won the 1998 […]
I’m back, folks. It’s true that I’ve been on sabbatical from my human management columns for some years now, but have no fear, your sensei has returned. And your sensei isn’t all that happy with you. I’ve spent the past couple of years retired from the Show Human Circuit, happily ensconced in a great equine […]
Natalie Keller Reinert was 30 and living in Brooklyn when she finished writing her first novel. Well, the first novel “I planned to finish,” she clarifies for the record. New York City was hardly the most friendly place to be as a grown-up horse girl. But Reinert managed. She worked as an exercise rider at […]
Kent Farrington will head to CHI Geneva (Switzerland) next week on a hot streak. On Sunday, Farrington picked up his second grand prix win in a month, this time topping the $200,000 ArthramidVet CSI4* Grand Prix on Sunday during the Holiday & Horses CSI4* week at Wellington International (Florida). Farrington was full of praise for […]
Nearly three years ago, Sara Kozumplik got a call from her friend and fellow eventer Nilson Moreira Da Silva that his four-star mount, Rock Phantom, was for sale. Kozumplik had always liked the striking bay Irish Sport Horse gelding (Spirit House—Ballycroy Rose, Clonakilty Hero) bred by Maura O’Malley, and Da Silva wondered if she knew […]
Life’s a dance for Emily Arriaga. The metaphor is more literal for her than most, as she has been dancing since age 4 and has her sights set on a career as a professional, and because she’s learned over her life to balance that passion with her passion for horses, which she also hopes to […]
Legendary show jumper and Thoroughbred trainer Rodney Jenkins died in his sleep Thursday Dec. 5, reported the Daily Racing Form. He was 80. Jenkins grew up on the back of a horse, as his father, Enis Jenkins, was the huntsman for Manly Carter’s private pack in Orange, Virginia, before taking a position at the now-defunct […]
What started with tragedy—the death of show jumper Chromatic BF—has evolved into a promising, uniquely wide-ranging effort to improve health and welfare for all sport horses. This week, the U.S. Equestrian Federation, the American Association of Equine Practitioners, the Foundation for the Horse, and “Chromatic’s” breeder, Kc Branscomb, announced the details of the “Chromatic Fund,” […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale has suspended British Olympic dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin for one year and fined her $11,321 (10,000 Swiss francs) in response to a video released last year which showed her whipping a horse around its legs more than 20 times during a training session. The FEI Tribunal decision, released today, concludes its […]
With seven major equitation finals wins and 18 finals ribbons total, Grappa’s tenure in the equitation ring is unmatched. He dominated that arena from 1996, when he won his first final with Lauren Bass, until his retirement in 2009. And for Sarah Willeman Doran, he was the magical partner with whom she won the 1998 […]
I’m back, folks. It’s true that I’ve been on sabbatical from my human management columns for some years now, but have no fear, your sensei has returned. And your sensei isn’t all that happy with you. I’ve spent the past couple of years retired from the Show Human Circuit, happily ensconced in a great equine […]
Natalie Keller Reinert was 30 and living in Brooklyn when she finished writing her first novel. Well, the first novel “I planned to finish,” she clarifies for the record. New York City was hardly the most friendly place to be as a grown-up horse girl. But Reinert managed. She worked as an exercise rider at […]
Contrary to what your credit card statement might suggest, full commitment and financial responsibility CAN coexist.
Kent Farrington will head to CHI Geneva (Switzerland) next week on a hot streak. On Sunday, Farrington picked up his second grand prix win in a month, this time topping the $200,000 ArthramidVet CSI4* Grand Prix on Sunday during the Holiday & Horses CSI4* week at Wellington International (Florida). Farrington was full of praise for […]
Nearly three years ago, Sara Kozumplik got a call from her friend and fellow eventer Nilson Moreira Da Silva that his four-star mount, Rock Phantom, was for sale. Kozumplik had always liked the striking bay Irish Sport Horse gelding (Spirit House—Ballycroy Rose, Clonakilty Hero) bred by Maura O’Malley, and Da Silva wondered if she knew […]
