Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
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FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
U.S. show jumpers are stars in Aachen
The USA's NetJets Show Jumping Team won the Mercedes-Benz Nations Cup at Germany’s Aachen, considered by many the world’s most prestigious horse show, with each rider putting in at least one clean round and Brian Moggre putting in two on Balou du Reventon. “Aachen is...
What are your thoughts on amateur rules?
The U.S. Equestrian Federation is going to revise the rules related to amateur competitors. The scenario has gotten a lot more complicated in the age of social influencers, and others who dabble in teaching beginners but aren't really professionals.Where do you think...
Head to the new Maryland 5-star to see top horses and riders: Sept. 28 UPDATE
Stars, stars, stars! Great Britain's Zara Tindall, the former European and world eventing champion, just entered next month's new Maryland 5-star at Fair Hill. Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter joins her country's team gold medal Olympian Oliver Townend, the world's...
Dressage star Isabell Werth is retiring–but not right now
The 2024 Olympics in Paris will be the last Games for German dressage superstar Isabell Werth, who told the German press agency that it will be a “turning point” for her career and she will retire at some point after that. The 55-year-old multi gold medalist said she...
The Master’s Chase returns
The Master's Chase races at Natirar on Main Street in Peapack & Gladstone are back on Oct. 9 after a year off due to Covid. The event's roots are in the cherished local tradition of steeplechasing in the Somerset Hills. Although the modern landscape means riders...
New York leg of GCL won’t be held this year
If you were planning to go to the New York venue for show jumping's Longines Global Champions Tour Sept. 24-26, better make other plans. The show, which debuted on Governor's Island in 2019 and was cancelled due to Covid in 2020, is not running this year. The League...
Step up for the Kevin Babington benefit show
A highly successful horse show held last autumn to benefit Kevin Babington will have an encore Oct. 10 at Duncraven in Titusville, with stable owner Tim Fedor offering the facility again to help the fund-raising effort. Kevin, a U.S.-based Irish show jumper, suffered...
Good news–Clooney’s improving
Clooney, the magnificent grey ridden by Martin Fuchs of Switzerland. has taken more than one step forward in his recovery and is being hand-walked. Martin's gold medal mount for the 2019 European Championships slipped in his pasture last month and fractured his...
A special show jumper is gone
Kroon Gravin, one of the great competition horses of the early 21st Century, has died in retirement at the age of 30. The two-time winner of the American Invitational (2001 and 2002), ridden by Molly Ashe Cawley, also was the first U.S entry to win Berlin's Eternit...
Two Atlantic County horses victims of EEE
Two unvaccinated horses in Atlantic County were euthanized after contracting Eastern Equine Encephalitis, the second and third cases of the illness that have surfaced in New Jersey this year. The animals were an 8-year-old mare and a 7-year-old mini-horse stallion....
