Nick Haness and McQueen made history Sunday evening when, after winning World Championship Hunter Rider Central Spectacular classes on both coasts, the pair won the $100,000 USHJA WCHR Central Spectacular at Traverse City (Michigan) to add the third and final jewel to their crown. “This is a huge, exciting win for McQueen,” said Haness, 36, […]
The horse-and-rider combinations named as members or alternates for the U.S. Eventing Team headed to the Paris Olympic Games went for style and confidence rather than speed at their mandatory outing over the weekend, and with the exception of one fall cross-country, all went to plan. The advanced division at the June Stable View Horse […]
Fiona Howard has dreamed of going to the Paralympics since she started showing seriously in para-dressage in 2022, and heading into this year, her Paris hopes were saddled solely to the back of her experienced partner Jagger, a 12-year-old U.S.-bred Westphalian gelding (Johnson TN—Sigur Ros, Sandro Hit). But in March, Francois Kasselman, who owns Hof […]
On Friday, June 21, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee proposed the first series of updates to its venue plan, sharing locations—including the equestrian venue—that will stage Olympic and Paralympic sports. In the new plan for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games, equestrian sports will be held at Galway […]
It all started when a fellow eventer told Todd Trewin, “I need an FEI buddy.” Trewin, 66, who was on the U.S. eventing team for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, last competed at the international level in 1995, running the Kentucky Three-Day Event aboard his Olympic partner, the New Zealand Thoroughbred Sandscript. Last weekend—three decades […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the 12 athlete-and-horse combinations selected to the U.S. Paralympic Dressage Team short list ahead of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games to be held Sept. 2-7 in Versailles, France. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Michel Assouline and Team Leader Laureen Johnson. The team selection will be announced […]
At its annual mid-year board of directors meeting, held this week in Lexington, Kentucky, the U.S. Equestrian Federation approved expanding its reach with a rule change that will give it jurisdiction over horse welfare outside the realm of competitions, and also require members to report abuse when they see it. A rewrite of GR838, which […]
At about 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, eventer Danielle Poulsen received a call from her barn manager at Long Branch Farm in Clarke County, Virginia, where she runs her business Poulsen Eventing. Just hours before, Poulsen and her boyfriend had turned out horses and wrapped up chores, then took an evening bike ride on the […]
Switzerland has announced its eventing team for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Godel, Johner and Vogg already competed as a team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, while Vogg took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) as an individual rider in 2016. This would be the first Olympic Games […]
The Japan Equestrian Federation has announced the horses and riders who have been recommended to the Japanese Olympic Committee for the show jumping and eventing teams for the Paris Olympics. Show Jumping • Eiken Sato on Chadellano JRA, groomed by Vivien Elder • Reserve horses: Conthargo Blue and Melypso Blue PS FRH • Taizo […]
Nick Haness and McQueen made history Sunday evening when, after winning World Championship Hunter Rider Central Spectacular classes on both coasts, the pair won the $100,000 USHJA WCHR Central Spectacular at Traverse City (Michigan) to add the third and final jewel to their crown. “This is a huge, exciting win for McQueen,” said Haness, 36, […]
The horse-and-rider combinations named as members or alternates for the U.S. Eventing Team headed to the Paris Olympic Games went for style and confidence rather than speed at their mandatory outing over the weekend, and with the exception of one fall cross-country, all went to plan. The advanced division at the June Stable View Horse […]
Fiona Howard has dreamed of going to the Paralympics since she started showing seriously in para-dressage in 2022, and heading into this year, her Paris hopes were saddled solely to the back of her experienced partner Jagger, a 12-year-old U.S.-bred Westphalian gelding (Johnson TN—Sigur Ros, Sandro Hit). But in March, Francois Kasselman, who owns Hof […]
On Friday, June 21, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee proposed the first series of updates to its venue plan, sharing locations—including the equestrian venue—that will stage Olympic and Paralympic sports. In the new plan for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games, equestrian sports will be held at Galway […]
It all started when a fellow eventer told Todd Trewin, “I need an FEI buddy.” Trewin, 66, who was on the U.S. eventing team for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, last competed at the international level in 1995, running the Kentucky Three-Day Event aboard his Olympic partner, the New Zealand Thoroughbred Sandscript. Last weekend—three decades […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced today the 12 athlete-and-horse combinations selected to the U.S. Paralympic Dressage Team short list ahead of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games to be held Sept. 2-7 in Versailles, France. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Michel Assouline and Team Leader Laureen Johnson. The team selection will be announced […]
At its annual mid-year board of directors meeting, held this week in Lexington, Kentucky, the U.S. Equestrian Federation approved expanding its reach with a rule change that will give it jurisdiction over horse welfare outside the realm of competitions, and also require members to report abuse when they see it. A rewrite of GR838, which […]
At about 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, eventer Danielle Poulsen received a call from her barn manager at Long Branch Farm in Clarke County, Virginia, where she runs her business Poulsen Eventing. Just hours before, Poulsen and her boyfriend had turned out horses and wrapped up chores, then took an evening bike ride on the […]
Switzerland has announced its eventing team for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Godel, Johner and Vogg already competed as a team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, while Vogg took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) as an individual rider in 2016. This would be the first Olympic Games […]
The Japan Equestrian Federation has announced the horses and riders who have been recommended to the Japanese Olympic Committee for the show jumping and eventing teams for the Paris Olympics. Show Jumping • Eiken Sato on Chadellano JRA, groomed by Vivien Elder • Reserve horses: Conthargo Blue and Melypso Blue PS FRH • Taizo […]
