Don't you love all the opportunities that are appearing for off-the-track thoroughbreds? For too long, they have been ignored in the show ring they once dominated, and elsewhere in the equestrian firmament too. But the Jockey Club's Thoroughbred Incentive Program is...

The Eastern States Dressage and Combined Training Association is offering a dressage training symposium April 6-7 with Lilo Fore at the Horse Park of New Jersey. A retired 5-star international dressage judge, Lilo is a U.S. Equestrian Federation S judge with an R...

A tribute to Dorothy Knocke Maxfield was held March 14 in the trophy room at the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation stable in Gladstone. A much-admired instructor who was also a dressage and eventing official, Dorothy died Feb. 17 in Mobile, Ala., of natural causes. She...

WELLINGTON, Fla. -- My first look at the order of go for the Winter Equestrian Festival's  $391,000 Fidelity Investments CSI 5-star Grand Prix revealed what seemed to be an almost sure bet: with the advantage of going last on the speedy Gazelle, it appeared Kent...

A Cape May County horse found positive for rabies last month has been euthanized. The 20-month-old colt, which was on a farm in a rural part of the county, was tested for rabies because it showed neurologic symptoms when it was being treated at a referral facility....

The four-time Ocean County Equestrian of the Year got a promotion when she was named the 2019 New Jersey Equestrian of the Year by the New Jersey Equine Advisory Board. Riley Chenoweth-Hafner of Manahawkin, a 17-year-old junior at Southern Regional High School,...

Equine ophthalmology, muscle diseases and esophogeal obstruction (otherwise known as "choke) will be among the topics explored at B.W. Furlong and Associates' Healthy Horse Seminar in Annandale Feb. 9. The seminar, featuring veterinarians from the practice, runs from...

I’ll bet you spent the last few weeks of our miserable weather cleaning out your tack room, basement or barn and now you’re wondering what to do with the items you no longer use. You’re in luck! It’s almost tack sale time, and  Mane Stream is looking for donations. Of...

  Phyllis Mills Wyeth, a noted horse breeder and carriage driver, died Jan. 14 at age 78 with her husband, artist Jamie Wyeth, at her side. She was often a model for her husband, whose most famous paintings include “And Then Into the Deep Gorge,” which depicts...

  I hope you watched the first segment of the two-part miniseries, Equus: Story of the Horse, on PBS Jan. 16. The next segment is coming up Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. Eastern time, and you don't want to miss it. Highlights of part one were the first realistic animation of...