Organizers for The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair announced on April 10 that the 125th edition of its event originally scheduled for May 27-June 6...
Organizers for The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair announced on April 10 that the 125th edition of its event originally scheduled for May 27-June 6 has been...
Even with more than 180 years of racing tradition, fairy-tale firsts still can materialize out of the mud at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England....
When you think of a top-level event horse, you might think of one who’s a fire-breathing dragon in the start box and quirky and difficult to handle on the...
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died Friday morning, April 9, at Windsor Castle in England. He was 99.
He was the longest-serving FEI president...
Robert Ridland is approaching his second Olympic cycle as chef d’equipe of the U.S. show jumping team. His team selection process has been tried and tested...
My name is Ketki Hotaling, and I am an Indian American show jumper. I was adopted by two women in Minnesota while I was still an infant. One of their...
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,...