Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
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....
Hampton Classic ends on a high note after a tough start
The $300,000 Longines Hampton Classic Grand Prix went to Israel’s Daniel Bluman on Gemma W, who outraced speed expert McLain Ward this afternoon to take the Long Island show’s top prize for the second time since 2017. Daniel last month missed being on the first...
Memorial gathering set for former Lord Stirling Stable manager
Harry Case, who defined Lord Stirling Stable's character as its first manager, was a much-admired man. When the Ft. Meyers, Fla., resident, died on May 22, 2020, pandemic restrictions meant that wasn't the time for those who knew him to gather in his memory. Now his...
Roxie does it again: another Para gold for U.S. rider
Roxie Trunnell, who won gold in Friday's individual Grade I test, did it again today after achieving a record-breaking score. Ranked as world number one, topped her category of the freestyle at Baji Koen Equestrian Park with Karen Flint and Flintwoode Farm's...
U.S. Para team reaches the podium at last
The U.S. moved up from fourth on the first day of team competition to reach the podium today for its first Paralympic team medal, taking the bronze in “a nailbiter to the absolute end” on a score of 224.352, behind gold medal Great Britain( 229.905) and the...
New Jersey horses continue success at USEF dressage championships: UPDATE
As the U.S. Equestrian Federation's Festival of Champions drew to a close, Alice Tarjan of Oldwick ended her stellar cavalry charge at Lamplight Farm in Illinois with titles in two more divisions. She took the Grand Prix tri-color on Candescent, the mare with which...
It’s the Alice Tarjan daily double double!
She did it again, and again. The day after taking first and second place in the Grand Prix at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions with her mares Candescent and Donatella M, Alice Tarjan was first and second in the Intermediaire II for the Developing Grand Prix...
