Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
The Essex Horse Trials is adding to its special history
As dusk fell on the evening before the first Essex Horse Trials in 1968, Sally Ike was helping organizer Roger Haller complete work on the final cross-country fence at his family’s Hoopstick Farm in Bedminster, N.J. At the time, Sally was a candidate for the Olympic...
Assessing the welfare of your horse at home
In the wake of widespread publicity about welfare issues at several prominent stables, the perennially pro-active European Equestrian Federation has come up with a survey to determine if horses are getting the best care and training at home. The organization is asking...
Pan Ams are heading back to Lima
For the second time since 2019, the Pan American Games is heading to Lima, Peru. At the Extraordinary General Assembly of Pan Am Sports in Miami this week, Lima was chosen to host the 2027 Games over the only other contender, Ascuncion, Paraguay. The Games originally...
U.S. and Aachen set for a new partnership
Britain’s splendid Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment is a hard act to follow in the pantheon of the Aachen horse show’s “partner country” collaborators. But the USA is ready to handle the position in Germany this summer, armed with such all-American traditions as...
An exciting addition to the next U.S. show jumping team
How important is the first Longines League of Nations competition in the U.S.? The home team that was just named Wednesday for the competition at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala includes the top three U.S. riders on the world ranking list—perennial squad members...
Questions about worming your horse? Tune in…
Wondering when—and if—you should worm your horse? Dr. Elisha Frye of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, has the answers. The assistant professor of practice in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences will be on Zoom to discuss...
New Wellington showgrounds gets final nod from Council
It’s been a long slog to get to a new showgrounds for Wellington, Florida; nine-plus months and approximately 70 hours of hearings (I admit I’ve lost the exact count.) But on Tuesday night, the Village Council signed off on the project with a unanimous vote (one...
Do you know these riders? Probably not, but they’re winners
So who won the biggest money show jumping grands prix this weekend? “Who?” is the operative question. Odds are the average show jumping fan never heard of Brazil’s Luciana Lossio, number 510 on the Longines ranking list. But she defeated a host of much better-known...
Traditions, sadly, aren’t forever: two cases in point
The century-old Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in California will close June 30. It was opened by Pebble Beach Resorts developer Samuel F.B. Morse, a cousin of the man who invented the telegraph and Morse code. “While the Equestrian Center has a storied history, it is...
Show Jumping Hall of Fame inducted a special horse and a memorable man
Francisco “Pancho” Lopez and the Holsteiner gelding Cedric, a regular on the U.S. Nations Cup teams, were inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fam March 3 in Wellington, Fla. Cedric, the once-in-a-lifetime partner of rider Laura Kraut, made his FEI debut in 2006...
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