The 2016 debut of Monmouth at the Team won the New Jersey Horse Shows Association’s Show of the Year award this month. It took some daring on the part of co-organizers Tucker Ericson and his cousin, Michael Dowling, to move New Jersey’s oldest horse show out of...

West Milford High School junior Mackenzie Suffy earned high point rider honors at last weekend’s College Preparatory Invitational (CPI) in West Palm Beach, Fla. The event at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center replicated the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association’s...

I first heard the distinctive and authoritative voice of announcer Tom Mannos at the Middlesex County Horse Show, back in the days when it was actually held in Middlesex County, at scenic Johnson Park in New Brunswick. Happily, I had plenty of other chances to listen...

The short list for the second U.S. 4-star three-day event is very short. It's been narrowed to two venues with experience in FEI competitions. Although there had been talk of adding a second American 4-star to the spring Rolex Kentucky 4-star in 2018, the date was...

The Kentucky Horse Park,  which hosted the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington, has dropped its bid fro the 2022 FEI World Equestrian Games. Since the only other bidder was Samorin, Slovakia, that facility looks like the winner. The Kentucky Horse Park needs $12...

 It could have been problematical for all breeds, but new teeth in the Horse Protection Act regulations will be geared to eliminating the practice of soring in Tennessee Walking Horses and racking horses, where stronger action is needed. The original draft of the...

Consummate volunteer Larry Langer, one of the key figures in the hunter/jumper industry, received the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s annual meeting in Kentucky. He has been part of the sport for 66 years, ever since he...

He guided the U.S. show jumping team to medals at the 2014 World Equestrian Games, the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2016 Olympics, so it was no surprise that Robert Ridland just got another four years as the squad's technical adviser/chef d'equipe, or the title he...

Carl “Doc” Simmons fell in love with hunting from the first day he tried it. He rode with Suffolk County’s Smithtown Hunt on Long Island, but took inspiration from the old, very social (and defunct) Meadow Brook Hounds in Nassau County, a hunt that counted Theodore...

The inaugural New Jersey Veterinary Foundation Veterinary Educator of the Year award was presented to Dr. Sarah Ralston. The Rutgers University professor, who is retiring, has mentored 113 students who have gone on to veterinary medicine careers since 2000 alone. Her...