Editor’s Note: On June 3, Caroline Pamukcu was named to the U.S. Eventing Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics with HSH Blake, along with Will Coleman (Off The Record) and Boyd Martin (Fedarman B). The three-person team will be accompanied by traveling reserve Liz Halliday (Cooley Nutcracker). With her sights on the 2024 Summer Olympics […]
Dressage trainer Eliza Sydnor Romm and professional artist Susan DiFelice were first introduced decades ago, when Sydnor’s family hired DiFelice to paint a portrait of her horse. Some 20 years later collaborated on a dressage training video for DiFelice’s website Allpony. In this new “Drawn To Dressage” blog series, we will be sharing their most […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced that the 2024 USEF/USEA Developing Horse National Championships will take place at Morven Park International & Fall Horse Trials in Leesburg, Virginia, Oct. 10-13. This national championship will feature two divisions: the first for 6-year-old horses competing at the CCI2*-S level, and the second for 7-year-old horses competing at […]
Great Britain’s William Fox-Pitt, one of the winningest event riders in history with 14 five-star victories to his name plus multiple senior championships including five Olympic Games, announced his retirement from upper-level competition last weekend at the Badminton Horse Trials (England). “I won’t be coming back to Badminton,” he said Sunday. After sitting in second place […]
It’s hard to find a hunter with a better record than McQueen in 2023, and he’s started 2024 off on the right foot, too. Last year, with Nick Haness up and the Balmoral team training, the gelding earned grand championships and green conformation hunter championships at Devon (Pennsylvania), Capital Challenge (Maryland) and the Washington International […]
As Tiana Coudray pulled into the Mars Badminton Horse Trials this year, she felt like she’d already accomplished one of her goals. It was the third time she’d aimed Cancaras Girl towards England’s spring five-star, but until last week, she’d been thwarted. The 2022 edition had been immensely popular, and the pair was waitlisted. As […]
Elizabeth Hart had caught horses in a field thousands of times before, but on May 9, 2023, that daily task went horribly wrong. The horse she was catching took off and kicked out as he did, and his hoof made contact with the right side of her face. “I was just in close range and […]
There’s a small foster-based horse rescue in the Pittsburgh area called Flying Changes Equine Rescue. I’ve been on the board of directors for almost a decade and often foster rescue horses, one at a time, as they await adoption. Our farm is also home to a lesson program, and when it’s appropriate and safe, our […]
Going into cross-country day at the USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Championship, 20-year-old Hayden Wathen knew she needed to get Contestor over the finish line under optimum time to stay at the top of the open intermediate leaderboard. Only a single point separated her from the second-place competitor, professional Waylon Roberts. “I had never made the time […]
While North Carolina-based artist Larissa Ann Ray is becoming increasingly known for her unique and expressive equine-inspired paintings, she calls her younger self an “unlikely equestrian.” Ray spent much of her childhood lost in a book. In elementary school, having worked her way through all the fiction on the family bookshelf, she came across a […]
Editor’s Note: On June 3, Caroline Pamukcu was named to the U.S. Eventing Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics with HSH Blake, along with Will Coleman (Off The Record) and Boyd Martin (Fedarman B). The three-person team will be accompanied by traveling reserve Liz Halliday (Cooley Nutcracker). With her sights on the 2024 Summer Olympics […]
Dressage trainer Eliza Sydnor Romm and professional artist Susan DiFelice were first introduced decades ago, when Sydnor’s family hired DiFelice to paint a portrait of her horse. Some 20 years later collaborated on a dressage training video for DiFelice’s website Allpony. In this new “Drawn To Dressage” blog series, we will be sharing their most […]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced that the 2024 USEF/USEA Developing Horse National Championships will take place at Morven Park International & Fall Horse Trials in Leesburg, Virginia, Oct. 10-13. This national championship will feature two divisions: the first for 6-year-old horses competing at the CCI2*-S level, and the second for 7-year-old horses competing at […]
Great Britain’s William Fox-Pitt, one of the winningest event riders in history with 14 five-star victories to his name plus multiple senior championships including five Olympic Games, announced his retirement from upper-level competition last weekend at the Badminton Horse Trials (England). “I won’t be coming back to Badminton,” he said Sunday. After sitting in second place […]
It’s hard to find a hunter with a better record than McQueen in 2023, and he’s started 2024 off on the right foot, too. Last year, with Nick Haness up and the Balmoral team training, the gelding earned grand championships and green conformation hunter championships at Devon (Pennsylvania), Capital Challenge (Maryland) and the Washington International […]
As Tiana Coudray pulled into the Mars Badminton Horse Trials this year, she felt like she’d already accomplished one of her goals. It was the third time she’d aimed Cancaras Girl towards England’s spring five-star, but until last week, she’d been thwarted. The 2022 edition had been immensely popular, and the pair was waitlisted. As […]
Elizabeth Hart had caught horses in a field thousands of times before, but on May 9, 2023, that daily task went horribly wrong. The horse she was catching took off and kicked out as he did, and his hoof made contact with the right side of her face. “I was just in close range and […]
There’s a small foster-based horse rescue in the Pittsburgh area called Flying Changes Equine Rescue. I’ve been on the board of directors for almost a decade and often foster rescue horses, one at a time, as they await adoption. Our farm is also home to a lesson program, and when it’s appropriate and safe, our […]
Going into cross-country day at the USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Championship, 20-year-old Hayden Wathen knew she needed to get Contestor over the finish line under optimum time to stay at the top of the open intermediate leaderboard. Only a single point separated her from the second-place competitor, professional Waylon Roberts. “I had never made the time […]
While North Carolina-based artist Larissa Ann Ray is becoming increasingly known for her unique and expressive equine-inspired paintings, she calls her younger self an “unlikely equestrian.” Ray spent much of her childhood lost in a book. In elementary school, having worked her way through all the fiction on the family bookshelf, she came across a […]
