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Kraut on top at Washington
Nearly 50 years after she made her debut on a pony at the Washington International Horse Show, Laura Kraut won its marquee President's Cup Saturday night for the second time. Aboard Tres Bien, she took on the Nick Granat-designed course with a key decision early in...
Lu Thomas has left us: Update with insight from her husband
Lu Thomas, a pillar of horse sport in Northern California, has passed away after years spent battling cancer. She was 79. Equally successful in the jumpers and the hunters, she and her husband, Graeme (Butch) Thomas, were a formidable training combination. Their...
Swiss star takes Maryland event title
Through the ups and downs of the leaderboard at the MARS Maryland 5-star at Fair Hill, Swiss rider Felix Vogg inched his way forward; from third place after dressage to second following cross-country, finally achieving victory in the show jumping finale on Sunday. The...
Thoroughbred speed makes itself felt during the MARS Maryland 5-Star at Fair Hill
During both dressage days at the MARS Maryland 5-star event, the riders seemed more apprehensive than usual about Saturday's cross-country test, walking the course over and over, describing it as challenging, massive and technical. Not only was it the first time...
A reshuffling at the top in the MARS Maryland 5-star
The top six competitors from the first day of the Mars Maryland 5-star event were re-directed down the leaderboard Friday, after the full field had completed the dressage phase. On Thursday, no one was able to score less than 30 penalties, but the second day brought...
Cross-country is the big question at the Mars Maryland 5-star
The first half of dressage competition was featured Thursday at the Mars Maryland 5-star Three-Day Event, as the USA's Boyd Martin topped the scoreboard with Luke 140, but much more than the placings were on everybody's mind. Topic A was the cross-country course, a...
A human anti-doping case involves a prescription for a well-known show jumper
U.S.-based Irish Olympic show jumper Darragh Kenny is provisionally suspended in an anti-doping case relating to his prescribed treatment for a medical condition. The suspension is related to testing at last summer's European Show Jumping Championships. The FEI has...
Alan Wade will design LA28 Olympic show jumping courses
He's not an American, but Alan Wade spends a lot of time in the U.S. So he will be a very familiar face as the show jumping course designer for the 2028 Olympics at Santa Anita. The Irishman laid out the routes for the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final 2017...
It’s Florida power at the USEF Medal finals
Riders with a Florida connection dominated the Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal Finals at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show Sunday, with the top three from a field of 157 linked to the Sunshine State. Olivia Sweetnam, the Wellington, Fla.-based daughter of...
Horses should have a choice; learn more during this seminar
What do you think about giving horses "agency," or choice and control in their lives? Growing interest in the topic has prompted Cornell University’s Equine Seminar Series to present “Equine Welfare and Agency: Why Choice Matters” from 6-7 p.m. Oct.. 21 on Zoom....
