Want to practice your trail class skills? 7 Springs Farm, 14 Perryville Road, Pittstown, will have a course set up from 10 a.m.-noon on Sunday Feb. 19, and a second session from noon-2 p.m., if more than 15 riders register for the first session. Try opening a gate,...

Former U.S. eventing coach Mark Phillips has been named the new cross-country course designer for May's Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event at the Horse Park of New Jersey. Fresh off the very successful work he did at Saturday's Land Rover Eventing Showcase in...

B.W. Furlong & Associates is holding its 16th annual Horse Health Seminar Feb. 19  from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Beaver Brook Country Club, 25 Country Club Dr.,  Annandale. The agenda is wide-ranging, with topics including leptospirosis, colic, embryo transfer, navicular...

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...

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday Feb. 10 in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Bedford, N.Y., for Arthur Hawkins, who was the gold standard for horse show officials. Visitation is 5-7 p.m.Thursday, Feb. 9 at the Cassidy-Flynn Funeral Home, 288 East Main St.,...

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...

Tucker Johnson will be stepping down next week as the president and CEO of the Gladstone-based U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation, as former Boeing CEO James McNerney Jr. steps into the position. Jim and his wife, Haity, have a house in Wellington and own jumpers with...

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...