My youngest daughter, Birdie, diagnosed with a tethered spinal cord, needed spinal neurosurgery—in the midst of the pandemic—weeks after her first birthday. One thing I felt at the time, and have noted since: The hardest thing for parents to bear is not being able to take on or carry the burdens and struggles our children […]
Tori Colvin made a name for herself as a junior, winning just about every championship title in the hunters, jumpers, and equitation rings, often against professionals and many multiple times over. After such a prolific junior career, Colvin went out on her own and has been a fixture in the professional divisions ever since. A […]
When the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab unveiled its equestrian helmet ratings in 2022, they were lauded as groundbreaking but also criticized by some helmet manufacturers for being incomplete. Now, Virginia Tech researchers have conducted additional testing using a different method and combined it with their previous results, and they have subsequently revised and updated the […]
When Boyd Martin travelled to Paris alongside his U.S. teammate Liz Halliday last summer, he admired how in sync the rider was with her Olympic partner, Cooley Nutcracker. “Liz always presented the horse and made him look quite easy and beautiful,” Boyd said of the horse-and-rider team, whose dressage test at the Games earned the […]
May 23 – June 13, 2025 (Subscribers can read the full magazine online.) SHOW JUMPING ISSUE Memories Of Authentic Authentic, stalwart of the U.S. show jumping team with Beezie Madden in the 2000s, died at on April 9 at age 30. One of just a handful of horses in history to have won three Olympic […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the athletes selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Langley CSIO4*. The competition will be hosted at Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, British Columbia, from May 28-June 1. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland and team leader Erin Keating. […]
With the recent news that Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, will again host Olympic equestrian events at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, we’re looking back at the 1984 Olympic Games, a highlight for the U.S. Equestrian Team, with riders earning multiple show jumping and eventing medals in front of an enthusiastic crowd. In 1984, eventing was […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the athlete-and-horse combinations selected for the 2025 U.S. Eventing European Development Tour, including those selected to represent the Defender U.S. Eventing Team in the FEI Eventing Nations Cup Bicton CCIO4*-NC-S, held at Bicton Arena in Devon, England, May 22-25. The objective of the annual tour is to provide athletes […]
Greetings from Virginia. My team, the horses and I are settled back in after a productive Florida season, and I’m ramping back into the mayhem of spring horse shows, teaching clinics and generally running all over the place at Mach 2 with my hair on fire. It’s not left time for … well, anything else, […]
My youngest daughter, Birdie, diagnosed with a tethered spinal cord, needed spinal neurosurgery—in the midst of the pandemic—weeks after her first birthday. One thing I felt at the time, and have noted since: The hardest thing for parents to bear is not being able to take on or carry the burdens and struggles our children […]
Tori Colvin made a name for herself as a junior, winning just about every championship title in the hunters, jumpers, and equitation rings, often against professionals and many multiple times over. After such a prolific junior career, Colvin went out on her own and has been a fixture in the professional divisions ever since. A […]
When the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab unveiled its equestrian helmet ratings in 2022, they were lauded as groundbreaking but also criticized by some helmet manufacturers for being incomplete. Now, Virginia Tech researchers have conducted additional testing using a different method and combined it with their previous results, and they have subsequently revised and updated the […]
When Boyd Martin travelled to Paris alongside his U.S. teammate Liz Halliday last summer, he admired how in sync the rider was with her Olympic partner, Cooley Nutcracker. “Liz always presented the horse and made him look quite easy and beautiful,” Boyd said of the horse-and-rider team, whose dressage test at the Games earned the […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the athletes selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Langley CSIO4*. The competition will be hosted at Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, British Columbia, from May 28-June 1. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland and team leader Erin Keating. […]
With the recent news that Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, will again host Olympic equestrian events at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, we’re looking back at the 1984 Olympic Games, a highlight for the U.S. Equestrian Team, with riders earning multiple show jumping and eventing medals in front of an enthusiastic crowd. In 1984, eventing was […]
Our columnist discusses the need for a long-term plan—one that relies on training more than purchasing power—for U.S. dressage.
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the athlete-and-horse combinations selected for the 2025 U.S. Eventing European Development Tour, including those selected to represent the Defender U.S. Eventing Team in the FEI Eventing Nations Cup Bicton CCIO4*-NC-S, held at Bicton Arena in Devon, England, May 22-25. The objective of the annual tour is to provide athletes […]
Greetings from Virginia. My team, the horses and I are settled back in after a productive Florida season, and I’m ramping back into the mayhem of spring horse shows, teaching clinics and generally running all over the place at Mach 2 with my hair on fire. It’s not left time for … well, anything else, […]
