John Layton has been named the U.S. Equestrian Federation's 2025 USEF Combined Driving Volunteer of the Year award, something well-deserved for the amount of time he gives to the sport. He is president of the Gladstone Equestrian Association Gladstone Driving, and...

He did it again. Christian Simonson earned his second Personal Best score of the week at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, taking Friday night's World Cup freestyle qualifier with a total of 81.445 percent on the steady Indian Rock. Their performance to themes...

Diane Crump, the first woman to ride professionally as a jockey in U.S. pari-mutuel races, succumbed to brain cancer Jan. 1. She was 77. Six jockeys protested and refused to ride in her 1969 racing debut, where she was protected by security guards. But she persisted....

The long-running legal drama connected with dressage trainer Michael Barisone continues, nearly four years after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity on an attempted second-degree murder charge involving the 2019 shooting of a tenant at his farm. Last week,...

As the new year gallops toward us, let's take a little half-halt to look back on 2025 and see where we've been, before we turn our attention to where we're going. At the high end, the wealthy who want to participate in horse sports are doing just fine, as you would...

Ian Balding, the British trainer of the great Mill Reef among many top-class horses, has died at the age of 87. A social media post from Park House Stables called him, “A wonderful family man, a hugely successful racehorse trainer and a brilliant sportsman. He was...

The world's number one-ranked show jumper, Kent Farrington, has won yet another grand prix -- but this time with a new horse. On Saturday at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, the U.S. star topped a field of 28 with a skillfully executed jump-off on Descartes, a...

You may know her best as an interviewer and analyst on the live stream, but Jessica Kürten has just been appointed Horse Sport Ireland's new High Performance Jumping Manager, succeeding Michael Blake. One of Ireland’s most accomplished, and influential figures in...