Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Buy a wreath, help a horse
Bergen County Horse Rescue is having a wreath sale Saturday Dec. 2. Order wreaths at wwwbergencountyhorserescue.org and pick them up at Hoofprints Gift Shop, 350 Ramapo Valley Way, Mahwah, NJ. All wreaths are made by volunteers with your choice of ribbon. The fee is...
Another shoe drops for Helgstrand: UPDATE
Following a decision to ban dressage trainer/entrepreneur Andreas Helgstrand from consideration for the Danish Olympic team, the Danish Riding Federation and the Danish Riding-Instructor Association are canceling a cooperation agreement with Helgstrand Dressage as a...
No Geneva repeat for McLain
Only one U.S. rider, Kent Farrington, will compete in the 22d Rolex International Jumping Riders Club Top 10 Final on December 8, during the Geneva, Switzerland, Concours Hippique International. The competition involves the 10 best show jumpers in the world, who...
This boot is made for wearing spurs a different way
Part of the fun when going to major competitions involves visiting the trade fair to see what's new and unusual. That's how I discovered Nicola Schulten's take on boots. What attracted me was seeing how she designed a way for spurs to in effect be buttoned onto the...
McCutcheon takes Maclay: UPDATE
“No more testing.” That was the word which came down from the judges after the top 24 competitors had completed their rides in the second round test of the ASPCA Maclay on Sunday. The announcement had to be anticipated by anyone who was watching Carlee McCutcheon’s...
The Irish make an impact at the National Horse Show
Irish course designer Alan Wade has laid out show jumping fences across Europe and North America, with the FEI World Cup Finals and the FEI World Equestrian Games among the many competitions that have benefited from his style. But until this week, he had never...
Science and celebration will join forces at Rutgers in November
The keynote address at the Rutgers Equine Science Center's Evening of Science & Celebration will be “Welfare over Triumphs: Protecting the Juvenile Performance Horse.” The speaker at the Nov. 9 gathering in New Brunswick is Dr. Jessica Leatherwood from Tarleton...
A favorite horse is a big, big winner!
I don't usually write about horse racing these days, but I was so thrilled to watch White Abarrio win the $6 million Longines Breeders Cup Classic Saturday that I had to share my excitement. I have followed this horse from the beginning of his career (there was just...
The U.S. did it–book a plane to Paris: UPDATE
Even before the Pan Am Games team show jumping medals were decided this afternoon in Chile, after three perfect trips in the second round of today's team competition, the U.S. was set to finish high enough to qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Whew! But when the...
Brazil tops Pan Am podium in a thriller, but U.S. is there too
Members of the U.S. gold medal team came close to sweeping the individual show jumping honors at the Pan American Games in Chile Friday, but they wound up settling for silver and bronze. Instead, it was Stephan de Freitas Barcha, ranked number 152 in the world, who...
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