Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Equine art show cancelled
The New Jersey Equine Artists Association has cancelled its National Juried Exhibit and Sale originally scheduled for June 7-July 5 due to the Covid situation. The show was to be held at Prallsvillemills in Stockton, Information on new dates will be forthcoming. In...
USHJA talks about what’s next for shows
Exhibitors, show organizers, officials and basically everyone else involved with horse shows have raised plenty of questions about how things will look when competitions resume. Many of the answers still are to be determined while the Covid situation evolves, but a...
How about some art for Mother’s Day?
Can't get out to shop for a horse lover's Mother's Day present? Teenage dynamo Shya Beth has created an online gallery of some really lovely equine art from around the world. She represents more than 40 artists from not only North America, but also Italy France and...
The final blow for the North American Youth Championships
The eventing portion of the North American Youth Championships in Montana was cancelled last month, and today the dressage and show jumping competitions in Traverse City, Mich., follwed suit to make a clean sweep of the international fixture that has been so important...
And now the celebrated Spruce Meadows Masters is a Covid casualty
The September Spruce Meadows Masters Tournament--which offers the world’s richest show jumping grand prix--has been cancelled due to the Covid 19 virus. The summer’s other events at the facility in Calgary, Alberta Canada were cancelled previously. The Calgary...
An effort to make eventing safer
The U.S. Eventing Association Cross-Country Safety Subcommittee, formed three years ago, has come out with a series of recommendations aimed at cutting down the number of accidents in the discipline. “It is not a realistic goal to say there will be zero accidents, a...
Tom O’Mara nominated for USEF President
A man who proved he can find answers for some of the equestrian industry's most difficult issues has been nominated for the presidency of the U.S. Equestrian Federation. Approval of Tom O'Mara is expected when the USEF board votes on his nomination June 22-23 at its...
UPDATE: Is there more bad news awaiting the Olympics?
It will be two strikes and out for the Tokyo Olympics if the continuing COVID-19 crisis means the Games can't be held in 2021. Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee told Japanese publication Nikkan Sports the Olympics won't be postponed a...
It’s time to rethink how the Olympics is run
“The Games of yesterday will not be the Games of tomorrow,” stated Guy Drut, a member of the International Olympic Committee, calling for them to be reinvented in the wake of the Covid pandemic that postponed the 2020 Games to next year. Drut, a former French minister...
Learn something while you wait
Three pertinent webinars from eXtensionhorses.org have been archived so you can access them and learn something useful while so much of the horse world is on pause. Carey Williams, a Rutgers University professor and equine extension specialist, has called to our...


