Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Step forward for Dressage at Devon
Dressage at Devon is seeking volunteers to help with its fiftieth anniversary show, whether it's for a few hours or several days. Special needs are for help with the Dressage Explorers for kids on Sunday, and general/floater volunteers on Tuesday and Wednesday during...
The Gladstone Driving Event is moving on up
The May 16-17 Gladstone Driving Event will be utilizing facilities at the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation headquarters, the Gladstone Equestrian Association's driving committee has announced. Not only will horses be stabled at the USET Foundation, but the dressage is...
A big change in the USEF blood rule
The U.S. Equestrian Federation's blood rule is designed to protect horse welfare, but it too often frustratingly has meant elimination for the presence of blood in competition that was not the fault of the rider. The federation has just approved a change to GR 843...
Germany is golden once more at European Dressage Championships
Germany did Thursday what it usually does, taking team gold for the twenty-sixth time at the European Dressage Championships. That nation has won a total of 26 golds in European championship competition, though at the last Euro title meet two year ago, it settled for...
Secretariat’s most famous jockey has died
Ron Turcotte, who in 1972 rode Secretariat to racing's first Triple Crown in a quarter-century, died Friday. He was 84. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame stated: “Ron was a legendary rider and also an inspiration for all he achieved and overcame during...
Improvements continue at Wellington International
It's four months and a bit until Florida's Winter Equestrian Festival gets under way again, but the improvements at Wellington International have been in the process since last year. The break from showing in July and the first half of August enabled more work to be...
A special equestrian is very much missed
After a long battle with cancer, respected horsewoman Linda Andrisani passed away in her sleep Sunday night. She set a high bar, both as a trainer and a widely admired judge, whose contributions to the horse industry were always appreciated by her peers and exhibitors...
A record is set at the USHJA Hunter Derby Championship
Victoria Colvin became the only rider ever to win the Platinum Performance/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship four times on four different horses, as she rode through pain to take the title Saturday at the Kentucky Horse Park. Tori and the Ingram family's...
A national championship gets a different showcase
The 2026 U.S. Equestrian Federation Grand Prix Dressage National Championship is moving to the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Fla., from May 13-17, where the atmosphere will offer a special opportunity in the run-up to the FEI World Championships at Aachen,...
Top-class show jumping comes to New Jersey
London. Vienna. Rome. Liberty State Park? How does a New Jersey park wind up on the same page of the Longines Global Champions Tour website with some of the world's greatest cities that have hosted its show jumping competitions? It's all about the vista -- because the...
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