Most of us, when aiming to compete in the North American Adult Amateur Equitation Championships, would have a mount lined up at least a few weeks in...
Upper-level dressage horse pedigrees don’t typically include names like Dreamboat Annie and Texas Tea, but Rose Goetsch’s versatile gelding Zip Two Dust is...
At 13 years old, Kat Fuqua boasts an impressive résumé of competitive achievements. A U.S. Equestrian Federation Pony Finals hunter and equitation champion...
Horses like Elvis, and like Ellegria, and Dorian Gray, and Fiero, are unbelievably wonderful to train. They have their hiccups and misunderstandings along the...
Most of us, when aiming to compete in the North American Adult Amateur Equitation Championships, would have a mount lined up at least a few weeks in advance,...
It’s been a slightly less busy show season for one of eventing’s busiest top riders—not only did the pandemic lead to a slew of cancellations, but Boyd...
Horses like Elvis, and like Ellegria, and Dorian Gray, and Fiero, are unbelievably wonderful to train. They have their hiccups and misunderstandings...
As I write it’s the morning of the fifth and final day of the 2018 Chicago regional session of the USHJA’s Emerging Athletes Program. In front of me at HITS-Chicago sits a...
There isn’t a gentle way to start this post, so I’m just starting: [In March], my horse passed away.
It was a Monday, so the barn was closed until 3 p.m. As you can...
Summer has hit us like a freight train, with heat indexes over 100* and high humidity here in Virginia. Summer is long and unrelenting here in the South, so it’s acclimate or...
In my teens and 20s, becoming a better rider was about surviving in the sport.
As a kid from a non-horsey family without enough money to buy and care for a horse, learning to...
This afternoon I got a phone call from a friend and fellow event rider who has just been named to the reserve list of a certain team competition in September. I was really hoping...
I have to admit that this might be my favorite portion of this series to write. What I normally see when an equine job ad pops up on social media is something so abrasive,...
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