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EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
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FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Postponed tack sale set for this month in Pittstown
Riding with HEART’s spring tack sale has become its summer tack sale. Postponed from March, it now will be held June 27 (10 a.m.-3 p.m.) and 28 (noon-3 p.m.) at 639 Route 513, Pittstown. Riding with HEART (Hunterdon Equine-Assisted Recreation and Therapy) is a 501-3C...
Will the world see a 5-star three-day event this year?
There’s still a chance that there will be a 5-star three-day event somewhere this year. While Kentucky, Badminton, Burghley, Luhmuhlen and Adelaide have fallen by the pandemic wayside, Pau in France and the new Maryland 5-star at Fair Hill are continuing to look at...
Bad news continues, but now there’s good news too
While more equestrian competitions are being called off because of the pandemic, others are running, enabling the industry to begin healing from months of inactivity. There will be no Global Champions Tour in 2020. The GCT, a rich international circuit with shows from...
Leslie Howard and David Distler chosen for Hall of Fame
Leslie Burr Howard and David Distler, who were just voted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, have been two of the most successful members of the equestrian community for half a century. They were set to be installed at the Devon Horse Show this month, but when...
Lesson barns can get help with feed through USHJA
Apply by June 1 to the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association for its new Feed Aid program that provides help in purchasing feed for lesson horses. The program is designed as short-term relief for businesses in the hunter/jumper community who provide lessons to non-boarders...
The cancellations keep on coming
The Lake Placid,N.Y., Horse Show, scheduled for June 23-July 5, has been cancelled for the first time in 51 years. “We place the safety of our exhibitors, the Lake Placid community and everyone connected with the horse shows above all else and that made this the only...
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...
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...
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...
And now Aachen is cancelled, as are other big European shows
The World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany, has been cancelled, despite initial thoughts of postponing it from its June dates. But the pandemic dictated otherwise. “People’s health takes top priority,” said Frank Kemperman, chair of the Aachen-Laurensberger...
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