Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Tarjan’s horses win at national dressage championships
Alice Tarjan was always going to be a key player at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions. How could she be anything else, after finishing sixth in the final U.S. Olympic trial last spring and bringing nine horses from her Oldwick farm to Lamplight Farm in Illinois...
Eastern Equine Encephalitis strikes in Cumberland County: UPDATE
The call to vaccinate is everywhere during the Covid pandemic but it is also an admonition from the state Department of Agriculture, after a 7-year-old unvaccinated mare in Cumberland County contracted EEE and had to be euthanized. (Note: The department originally...
The fabulous stallion Flexible is gone
The Irishbred show jumper Flexible died peacefully on Aug. 22 of natural causes in his sunny paddock in Oregon. The stallion, who won the World Cup title in 2012 with rider Rich Fellers was 25 and still in work, occasionally jumping which he loved.Flei was owned by...
The Tewksbury Trail Pace is back!
The Tewksbury Trail Association’s Trail Pace marks its 25th anniversary with an 8-mile course at Christie Hoffman Farm Park. One of the most popular paces in New Jersey, it's set for Sept. 19 at a lovely setting at 108 Fairmount Road West (Route 512) in Tewksbury,...
Sandro Hit has died
An infection has claimed the life of the gorgeous black stallion who was in the bloodlines of all three horses on the 2021 U.S. Olympic silver medal dressage team. The decision to euthanize 28-year-old Sandro Hit was made when veterinarians determined that continuing...
Want to learn from experts about putting together dressage musical freestyle? Here’s an opportunity
Auditors will come learn the process of building a Freestyle Dressage Test and choreographing the movements to music. Learn the process through the eyes of top international riders, a world renowned judge and a professional composer. Kim Herslow Dressage at Upper...
Update on Clooney
It turns out that Clooney has a humerus fracture on his right side after a pasture accident earlier this month. According to his rider, Martin Fuchs, "He is in the best care at Tierspital Zürich and seems to be his normal self at the moment. "He is eating well and is...
Horse show announcer Tom Mannos has passed away
Tom Mannos was known as “ The Voice of Equestrian Sport,” a polished and professional announcer heard everywhere from the Hampton Classic to Madison Square Garden, Equitana, the Belmont Park Horse Fair, the Middlesex County Horse Show and dozens of other competitions...
Swe-den, Swe-den!
Yes, Sweden is "it" after winning team gold at the Tokyo Olympics.. People are interested in everything about the Swedish horses and riders. Who wasn't intrigued by the fact that two team horses at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park were shoeless--Henrik von Eckermann's...
Quarter Horse Hall of Famer Carol Harris has left us
Carol Harris, the first president of the New Jersey Quarter Horse Association, has passed away at age 98. She was a pioneer in many areas, but perhaps is best known in connection with the stallion Rugged Lark, whom she raised, owned and promoted. A native of West...
