The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Thursday announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the United States at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Para-dressage competition will take place Sept. 3-7 at the equestrian grounds of Versailles. “Heading into the Paralympic Games with the highest-ever scoring team in U.S. history in the run-up to Paris 2024 is […]
When Catherine “Cakki” Purcell told her longtime trainer, Molly Cobb, that she wanted to give eventing a try, Cobb wasn’t at all surprised. Purcell had been thrill-seeking from the time she first arrived at Cobbs’ farm, Pony Paddock near Gainesville, Florida, as a particularly tiny 6-year-old. “She has always loved to go fast—always,” Cobb said […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale released today the definite entries for the Paris Olympic Games. Eventing will be the first discipline of the Games, taking place July 26-29. There will be 27 countries participating for a total of 65 riders and 16 teams. A complete list of entries can be found here. In dressage, there are […]
One July morning last year, Brittany Foust was bringing horses in from the 30-acre field on her family’s property near the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, when she saw something was seriously wrong with one of the farm’s horses, Hog’s Hollow. “He kind of looked like he had rolled in barbed wire, which our fencing isn’t […]
Irish grand prix rider Conor Swail calls Count Me In his “horse of a lifetime.” Swail and “Crosby” finished eighth in the 2022 Longines FEI World Cup Final (Germany) and have gone on to pick up many grand prix wins together, including several this winter season at the Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California. Last […]
The plan started with an email. That email informed amateur rider Nicholas Fix that his horse Paint The Town had qualified for the Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championships with a previous rider, so he reached out to his trainers Linda and Alyssa Stevens of Fox Hollow Stables in Wampum, Pennsylvania. That got them thinking about […]
The Veterinary Corner series, brought to you by Merck Animal Health, features insights from leading veterinarians on some of the most pressing health issues affecting horses today. When the temperatures rise, the mosquitoes come out to fly—and bite. And while the flying fiends are a pest to us all, it’s extra important to protect our […]
In early 1976, Mary Hazzard and Bruce Davidson asked me to join a committee to start an event with the Delaware Valley Combined Training Association. This event had been held for several years at Mark Wilcox’s Ivy Mill Farm in Media, Pennsylvania. At that time, I had no interest in being involved in the administration […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association board of directors elected one at-large director to the board during a special meeting on Monday, July 8. The following individual was elected to the USHJA board of directors: This election was held in accordance with USHJA bylaws to fill the vacant board of directors seat. USHJA members submitted nominations […]
Ann Demellweek thought she’d lost her beloved horse “Kit” forever after she was forced to sell him in 1998. She had owned the Canadian Warmblood-Thoroughbred cross gelding, show name Mahogany North, from the time he was weaned until he was 15. A divorce forced Demellweek to sell Kit, and she was heartbroken about it. “I […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation on Thursday announced the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the United States at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Para-dressage competition will take place Sept. 3-7 at the equestrian grounds of Versailles. “Heading into the Paralympic Games with the highest-ever scoring team in U.S. history in the run-up to Paris 2024 is […]
When Catherine “Cakki” Purcell told her longtime trainer, Molly Cobb, that she wanted to give eventing a try, Cobb wasn’t at all surprised. Purcell had been thrill-seeking from the time she first arrived at Cobbs’ farm, Pony Paddock near Gainesville, Florida, as a particularly tiny 6-year-old. “She has always loved to go fast—always,” Cobb said […]
The Fédération Equestre Internationale released today the definite entries for the Paris Olympic Games. Eventing will be the first discipline of the Games, taking place July 26-29. There will be 27 countries participating for a total of 65 riders and 16 teams. A complete list of entries can be found here. In dressage, there are […]
One July morning last year, Brittany Foust was bringing horses in from the 30-acre field on her family’s property near the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, when she saw something was seriously wrong with one of the farm’s horses, Hog’s Hollow. “He kind of looked like he had rolled in barbed wire, which our fencing isn’t […]
Irish grand prix rider Conor Swail calls Count Me In his “horse of a lifetime.” Swail and “Crosby” finished eighth in the 2022 Longines FEI World Cup Final (Germany) and have gone on to pick up many grand prix wins together, including several this winter season at the Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California. Last […]
The plan started with an email. That email informed amateur rider Nicholas Fix that his horse Paint The Town had qualified for the Adequan/USEF Junior Hunter National Championships with a previous rider, so he reached out to his trainers Linda and Alyssa Stevens of Fox Hollow Stables in Wampum, Pennsylvania. That got them thinking about […]
The Veterinary Corner series, brought to you by Merck Animal Health, features insights from leading veterinarians on some of the most pressing health issues affecting horses today. When the temperatures rise, the mosquitoes come out to fly—and bite. And while the flying fiends are a pest to us all, it’s extra important to protect our […]
In early 1976, Mary Hazzard and Bruce Davidson asked me to join a committee to start an event with the Delaware Valley Combined Training Association. This event had been held for several years at Mark Wilcox’s Ivy Mill Farm in Media, Pennsylvania. At that time, I had no interest in being involved in the administration […]
The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association board of directors elected one at-large director to the board during a special meeting on Monday, July 8. The following individual was elected to the USHJA board of directors: This election was held in accordance with USHJA bylaws to fill the vacant board of directors seat. USHJA members submitted nominations […]
Ann Demellweek thought she’d lost her beloved horse “Kit” forever after she was forced to sell him in 1998. She had owned the Canadian Warmblood-Thoroughbred cross gelding, show name Mahogany North, from the time he was weaned until he was 15. A divorce forced Demellweek to sell Kit, and she was heartbroken about it. “I […]
