Pan American Games eventing medalist Patrick “Packy” McGaughan, 56, died in his sleep yesterday. He began his career as a young rider in the late 1970s and went on to compete at the North American Young Rider Championships. He was rider in residence at the U.S....

Verdades, the USA's top dressage horse of the last six years, will be taking his last bows before his public at the 2020 FEI World Cup™ Finals in Las Vegas next month. Diddy, whose retirement was announced in January, will appear in the Devoucoux Dressage...

In the wake of the deaths of Canadian Katherine Morel and her thoroughbred, Kerry On, the U.S. Eventing Association's chairman of cross-country safety says it's time for action. The mare and her rider were killed in a rotational fall at a table jump in the...

The Monmouth County Hunt welcomed Standardbreds from three states for a special day of foxhunting this month. Standardbreds primarily are used for harness racing and driving, but like thoroughbreds, they can go on to different careers when their days at the track are...

Alice Tarjan of Oldwick, an amateur rider who brings her young horses along to Grand Prix level, has been selected to participate in the Kundrun U.S. Equestrian Federation's Dressage Development Program. She is among 21 riders perceived to have the ability to make or...

The Longines Masters of Hong Kong show jumping tournament, set for Feb. 14-16, has been cancelled as a precaution following recent developments in the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak. "With more than 35,000 people expected from Hong Kong, Asia and around the world, the...

The 123-acre Lana Lobell farm in Bedminster, once a nationally known standardbred breeding facility where four Hambeltonian winners were foaled, is going up for auction Jan. 11 in the freeholders' meeting room at the Somerset County Administration Building in...

B.W. Furlong & Associates presents its 19th Annual Healthy Horse Seminar from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 29. at Beaver Brook Country Club in Annandale, featuring topics that include senior horse care, sport science and genetic diseases.. Registration is required but...

Seven New Jersey owners claimed Horse of the Year championships at the U.S. Equestrian Federation's annual meeting last weekend. They included Leslie Goryeb of Gladstone, with MD Tsunami, Arabian Country Pleasure/Country Pleasure Driving Open; Joanne Dadd, Bedminster,...

Earlen Haven, a longtime licensed U.S. Equestrian Federation judge who runs Country Haven farm in South Jersey, is rallying the troops to push for approval of a measure that would eliminate the sales tax on horse boarding. She asks that at noon on Monday Jan. 6,...