Lexington, Ky.—Oct. 31 Coming into the National Horse Show, Stella Propp’s indoor season hadn’t quite gone to plan. While she’d earned some ribbons, she hadn’t produced the consistency she managed in the past, so she headed into the final indoor focused on finishing strong. “I started with the 3’6″ amateur-owners [with Grand Remo], and that […]
To put it simply, Lillian “Lily” Frenzel knows how to get things done. “Anything that I need doing, she is always there, and always does it with a smile and is happy to do it,” said Kathryn Butt, who recently retired from her role as the youth coordinator for the South Carolina Dressage and Combined […]
Lexington, Ky.—Oct. 30 Scott Stewart is no stranger to winning the Rock Star Leading Hunter Award at the National Horse Show—he’s won it 10 of the last 11 years, only missing it in 2020 because he didn’t attend the show. He added another to the tally this year, making his total 17 leading hunter rider […]
In 2021, amateur hunter rider Caroline Leeth was aimlessly scrolling through her Facebook feed, not in search of anything in particular. After glancing through several friends’ posts, she noticed a for sale ad pop up for an Appendix Quarter Horse called Good Thing Im Best on a Quarter Horse sales page. Curious, she clicked on […]
“Mom, how could you have scheduled the dentist today, so I can’t ride!” My teen daughter glared at me. “You know this is my last few weeks to ride her.” At first, I was angry at the disrespect, and then anger morphed into melancholy. My daughter was in her last days with a beautiful mare […]
Oct. 1 started as a normal workday for Molly O’Brien. As Lehua Custer’s assistant trainer and head groom for the past three years, she has settled into her daily routine of riding, training and grooming. A quick glance at her phone while tacking up a horse changed that. An email in her inbox informed her […]
When amateur event rider Lauren Field lost her horse unexpectedly, the longtime Thoroughbred lover knew exactly where to look for her next mount. In 2013, Field reached out to Finger Lakes Finest, a Thoroughbred rehoming organization in New York, to find a suitable match. When her first choice didn’t pan out, Lucinda Finley, founder and […]
Rodrigo Pessoa scored a big win Saturday evening when he piloted Major Tom to the top of the $340,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Washington for the President’s Cup. In his first grand prix victory at the Washington International Horse Show, Pessoa and Major Tom set the tone as the first clear trip in the […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 26 Adriana Forte has had a lot of firsts lately: This was her first year going to Devon (Pennsylvania), and her first year qualifying for the Washington International Horse Show Equitation Final. And once she got to the final, she nailed both the hunter and jumper rounds to come back for another […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 25 Exactly one year ago, on the second day of junior hunter competition of the 2023 Washington International Horse Show, Paige Walkenbach first threw a leg over Babylon. That would kick off a fantastic 2024 season for the two of them that included tricolors at major shows all over the East Coast. […]
Lexington, Ky.—Oct. 31 Coming into the National Horse Show, Stella Propp’s indoor season hadn’t quite gone to plan. While she’d earned some ribbons, she hadn’t produced the consistency she managed in the past, so she headed into the final indoor focused on finishing strong. “I started with the 3’6″ amateur-owners [with Grand Remo], and that […]
To put it simply, Lillian “Lily” Frenzel knows how to get things done. “Anything that I need doing, she is always there, and always does it with a smile and is happy to do it,” said Kathryn Butt, who recently retired from her role as the youth coordinator for the South Carolina Dressage and Combined […]
Lexington, Ky.—Oct. 30 Scott Stewart is no stranger to winning the Rock Star Leading Hunter Award at the National Horse Show—he’s won it 10 of the last 11 years, only missing it in 2020 because he didn’t attend the show. He added another to the tally this year, making his total 17 leading hunter rider […]
In 2021, amateur hunter rider Caroline Leeth was aimlessly scrolling through her Facebook feed, not in search of anything in particular. After glancing through several friends’ posts, she noticed a for sale ad pop up for an Appendix Quarter Horse called Good Thing Im Best on a Quarter Horse sales page. Curious, she clicked on […]
“Mom, how could you have scheduled the dentist today, so I can’t ride!” My teen daughter glared at me. “You know this is my last few weeks to ride her.” At first, I was angry at the disrespect, and then anger morphed into melancholy. My daughter was in her last days with a beautiful mare […]
Oct. 1 started as a normal workday for Molly O’Brien. As Lehua Custer’s assistant trainer and head groom for the past three years, she has settled into her daily routine of riding, training and grooming. A quick glance at her phone while tacking up a horse changed that. An email in her inbox informed her […]
When amateur event rider Lauren Field lost her horse unexpectedly, the longtime Thoroughbred lover knew exactly where to look for her next mount. In 2013, Field reached out to Finger Lakes Finest, a Thoroughbred rehoming organization in New York, to find a suitable match. When her first choice didn’t pan out, Lucinda Finley, founder and […]
Rodrigo Pessoa scored a big win Saturday evening when he piloted Major Tom to the top of the $340,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Washington for the President’s Cup. In his first grand prix victory at the Washington International Horse Show, Pessoa and Major Tom set the tone as the first clear trip in the […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 26 Adriana Forte has had a lot of firsts lately: This was her first year going to Devon (Pennsylvania), and her first year qualifying for the Washington International Horse Show Equitation Final. And once she got to the final, she nailed both the hunter and jumper rounds to come back for another […]
Upper Marlboro, Md.—Oct. 25 Exactly one year ago, on the second day of junior hunter competition of the 2023 Washington International Horse Show, Paige Walkenbach first threw a leg over Babylon. That would kick off a fantastic 2024 season for the two of them that included tricolors at major shows all over the East Coast. […]
