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FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
A strong FEI initiative fights the push to drop equestrian sport from the Olympics
The International Olympic Committee got a wave of petitions with 194,555 signatures during and after the Paris Games seeking to discontinue equestrian competition in the Olympics. According to the FEI's (international equestrian federation) update of the October...
Liz Halliday is still fighting
It's been a few weeks since a status report on Olympic eventer Liz Halliday has come out, but word today is that her rehabilitation from a traumatic brain injury continues unabated at the Shirley Ryan Abililty Clinic in Chicago. A release from her friends and family...
Mission Viejo Riding Park is a go
The Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park is ready to host California horse shows in the new year after the Ridland Group completed a state-of-the-art plan to capture stormwater originating from its facility in San Juan Capistrano, according to a joint statement from that...
Sabine Schut-Kery gets a leg up from U.S. Dressage Foundation
Sabine Schut-Kery, the highest-scoring rider on the 2021 Olympic silver medal team, has received the U.S. Dressage Foundation's $25,000 Carol Lavell Advanced Dressage Prize. Sabine will use the money for training Sonnenberg’s Jersey, a 10-year-old Dutch warmblood...
Glynn wins Talent Search West
Like the victors in the other major equitation championships this fall, the winner of the Platinum Performance/ USEF Show Jumping Talent Search West has parents who are professionals. Avery Glynn, the daughter of Hope Glynn and Ned Glynn, took the title last weekend...
What role will Artificial Intelligence play (someday) in your dressage score?
Not too far down the road, your dressage test likely will be judged to some extent by Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as a human official. And you probably can expect AI to be used to a certain degree in horse inspections at competitions in the future. That was...
The giants of show jumping are set to face off
Kent Farrington and McLain Ward will represent the U.S. next month in Geneva at that most elite of elite match-ups, the International Jumping Riders Club's competition for the world's top 10. Here is the complete list of participants: World Number One Henrik von...
Salute Ireland’s Capt. Con Power
A legendary rider of the 1970s and '80s, Capt. Con Power of Ireland, has passed away at age 71 after a long illness. A mainstay of the Irish team during his era, Capt. Power was part of his nation's three straight victories in the country's most important competition,...
Lavell, Woods being honored by USDF
Twenty-seven years after her most famous mount, Gifted, was inducted into the Roemer Foundation/U.S. Dressage Federation Hall of Fame, he is being joined by his rider, the late Carol Lavell. The ceremony will take place during the USDF convention in Houston during...
Eventing leader Bobby Costello is moving on
Bobby Costello, who smoothed the waters after a turbulent time for U.S.eventing two years ago, has decided not to continue as technical advisor and chef d'equipe for the discipline after his contract expires Nov. 30 at the end of the Olympic quadrennium. Bobby, who is...
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