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EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
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Good news! Liz Hallliday is home at last
Olympic eventer Liz Halliday, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2024 fall, has returned to her base in Lexington, Ky., after many months of working hard at rehabilitation. She posted about her progress on social media, saying, "This is the most important...
Isla Carroll development gives it another try in Wellington
It's back to the drawing board yet again for the proposed Isla Carroll development in Wellington, Fla., which eked out a 3-2 approval from the Village Council on first reading Monday night. But both Mayor Michael Napoleone and Councilman John McGovern, who reluctantly...
It’s awards season for horse sport stars
The U.S. Equestrian Federation and the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation are handing out honors with a look back to 2025. It's no surprise that Kent Farrington's illustrious Greya received the USEF's SmartPak/International Horse of the Year title. Kent, the world's...
A big promotion for a longtime eventing organizer
A dedicated worker who started as a volunteer for the Kentucky Three-Day Event when she was in the Keeneland Pony Club has been named CEO of the 5-star competition's parent organization, Equestrian Events Inc. Vanessa Coleman, who was EEI’s chief competition and...
Two horsemen honored by USEF
Irrepressible eventer Boyd Martin received international equestrian of the year honors for 2025 Thursday at the U.S. Equestrian Federation's Pegasus dinner, while hunter rider Daniel Geitner was named national equestrian of the year. Boyd, who won the first USEF...
The Winter Equestrian Festival is back big-time
As the Winter Equestrian Festival officially got under way this week, it was an opportunity to look at what lies ahead through the end of March at the Wellington International showgrounds in Florida. With a re-do over the last year, the facility has been spruced up,...
Will the Maryland 5-star event continue?
After five years, the Maryland 5-star three-day event at Fair Hill established itself as a well-respected fixture, attracting a healthy entry for its accompanying 3-star division, as well as good crowds for cross-country day tailgating and the show jumping finale, in...
A dynamic combined driving enthusiast is honored
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...
Simonson tops in the Freestyle, Orlob in the Special (Update)
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...
A horseracing pioneer is gone
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....
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