Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Time to register for LA 2028 Olympic tickets
Starting today, you can register for the Los Angeles Olympic Games ticket draw and begin the process of being able to watch Olympic and Paralympic competition in person. “LA28 is ready to welcome the world and the most spectacular athletes from every corner of it for...
The Winter Equestrian Festival is back big-time
As the Winter Equestrian Festival officially got under way this week, it was an opportunity to look at what lies ahead through the end of March at the Wellington International showgrounds in Florida. With a re-do over the last year, the facility has been spruced up,...
Will the Maryland 5-star event continue?
After five years, the Maryland 5-star three-day event at Fair Hill established itself as a well-respected fixture, attracting a healthy entry for its accompanying 3-star division, as well as good crowds for cross-country day tailgating and the show jumping finale, in...
A dynamic combined driving enthusiast is honored
John Layton has been named the U.S. Equestrian Federation's 2025 USEF Combined Driving Volunteer of the Year award, something well-deserved for the amount of time he gives to the sport. He is president of the Gladstone Equestrian Association Gladstone Driving, and...
Simonson tops in the Freestyle, Orlob in the Special (Update)
He did it again. Christian Simonson earned his second Personal Best score of the week at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, taking Friday night's World Cup freestyle qualifier with a total of 81.445 percent on the steady Indian Rock. Their performance to themes...
A horseracing pioneer is gone
Diane Crump, the first woman to ride professionally as a jockey in U.S. pari-mutuel races, succumbed to brain cancer Jan. 1. She was 77. Six jockeys protested and refused to ride in her 1969 racing debut, where she was protected by security guards. But she persisted....
Another development in the Barisone saga
The long-running legal drama connected with dressage trainer Michael Barisone continues, nearly four years after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity on an attempted second-degree murder charge involving the 2019 shooting of a tenant at his farm. Last week,...
Recalling the best (and worst) of 2025
As the new year gallops toward us, let's take a little half-halt to look back on 2025 and see where we've been, before we turn our attention to where we're going. At the high end, the wealthy who want to participate in horse sports are doing just fine, as you would...
Famed trainer Ian Balding passed away
Ian Balding, the British trainer of the great Mill Reef among many top-class horses, has died at the age of 87. A social media post from Park House Stables called him, “A wonderful family man, a hugely successful racehorse trainer and a brilliant sportsman. He was...
Farrington does it again
The world's number one-ranked show jumper, Kent Farrington, has won yet another grand prix -- but this time with a new horse. On Saturday at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, the U.S. star topped a field of 28 with a skillfully executed jump-off on Descartes, a...
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