It has been a long 10 months of training, with so many ups and downs for Capture the Magic and I as we’ve worked toward our goal of attending the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover, taking place Oct. 9-12 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The downs meant it kept feeling more and […]
When Jennifer Roth moved from California to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she thought she was leaving behind the ever-present threat of natural disasters like wildfires and earthquakes. But in the almost-decade that she’s lived in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, she’s now experienced two major hurricanes: Florence, which nearly washed out the 2018 FEI […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athletes selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Vejer CSIO3* hosted Oct. 23-27 in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Anne Kursinski and Team Leader Erin Keating. The following athletes have been selected to represent […]
Angie was 35 when she, her husband, and son moved into their first home. It was red brick with a big picture window and a pasture out front where their horses could graze. It was almost a dream come true. Almost, because Angie was dying. The lump she’d found just two years earlier had metastasized, […]
Sometimes “normal” people don’t get me. It’s because I’m a crazy horse person, a special breed. So, I’ve created this disclaimer. Here’s what you can expect if you want to be friends (by choice) or if you’re related or married to me (thus your options are limited). If you think I’m unstable because one day I […]
Olympic eventer Liz Halliday, who has been hospitalized since sustaining a head injury in a cross-country fall at the USEA American Eventing Championships on Aug. 29, has been moved to a rehabilitation facility. According to an update by her friends and family on Saturday, Sept. 28, Halliday is now recovering at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in […]
Dressage riders Ruth McCormick and Dottie Minter admit that in their decades of riding, showing has never been the primary focus. The two friends and barn mates have owned talented horses and ridden under top trainers, but their main objective was always to enjoy their equine companions. Over the last few years, however, McCormick set […]
For Claudia Szidat, dressage has been more about the journey than the blue ribbons since she took up the sport in 2020. German by birth, she grew up riding sporadically but got serious about showing—riding hunters on the Quarter Horse circuit—when she moved to the United States in 1999 for her husband Michael Szidat’s job. […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale announced today that it will not replace the canceled Longines FEI Jumping World Cup qualifier previously slated to be held at the Las Vegas National as part of the North American League. According to an FEI press release, the limited time left in this season contributed to the decision not to […]
Paula Oliver always wanted to pursue riding, and dressage in particular, as a young person, but when the time came to attend graduate school for genetics and pathology, she knew horses would have to move to the back burner while she established a career that could fund her passion. Oliver earned her doctorate and now […]
It has been a long 10 months of training, with so many ups and downs for Capture the Magic and I as we’ve worked toward our goal of attending the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover, taking place Oct. 9-12 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The downs meant it kept feeling more and […]
When Jennifer Roth moved from California to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she thought she was leaving behind the ever-present threat of natural disasters like wildfires and earthquakes. But in the almost-decade that she’s lived in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, she’s now experienced two major hurricanes: Florence, which nearly washed out the 2018 FEI […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athletes selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Vejer CSIO3* hosted Oct. 23-27 in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Anne Kursinski and Team Leader Erin Keating. The following athletes have been selected to represent […]
Angie was 35 when she, her husband, and son moved into their first home. It was red brick with a big picture window and a pasture out front where their horses could graze. It was almost a dream come true. Almost, because Angie was dying. The lump she’d found just two years earlier had metastasized, […]
Sometimes “normal” people don’t get me. It’s because I’m a crazy horse person, a special breed. So, I’ve created this disclaimer. Here’s what you can expect if you want to be friends (by choice) or if you’re related or married to me (thus your options are limited). If you think I’m unstable because one day I […]
Olympic eventer Liz Halliday, who has been hospitalized since sustaining a head injury in a cross-country fall at the USEA American Eventing Championships on Aug. 29, has been moved to a rehabilitation facility. According to an update by her friends and family on Saturday, Sept. 28, Halliday is now recovering at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in […]
Dressage riders Ruth McCormick and Dottie Minter admit that in their decades of riding, showing has never been the primary focus. The two friends and barn mates have owned talented horses and ridden under top trainers, but their main objective was always to enjoy their equine companions. Over the last few years, however, McCormick set […]
For Claudia Szidat, dressage has been more about the journey than the blue ribbons since she took up the sport in 2020. German by birth, she grew up riding sporadically but got serious about showing—riding hunters on the Quarter Horse circuit—when she moved to the United States in 1999 for her husband Michael Szidat’s job. […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale announced today that it will not replace the canceled Longines FEI Jumping World Cup qualifier previously slated to be held at the Las Vegas National as part of the North American League. According to an FEI press release, the limited time left in this season contributed to the decision not to […]
Paula Oliver always wanted to pursue riding, and dressage in particular, as a young person, but when the time came to attend graduate school for genetics and pathology, she knew horses would have to move to the back burner while she established a career that could fund her passion. Oliver earned her doctorate and now […]
