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Traurig ready for a major role in Paris
Christine Traurig, the heroine of the 2000 Olympics whose crucial dressage performance secured team bronze for the U.S., will be assisting others as they try for a medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She has been named by the U.S. Equestrian Federation to serve as the...
A new year’s resolution from Helgstrand Dressage
Helgstrand Dressage, the stable whose training practices came out in the open via a scathing Danish undercover TV documentary in November, is calling 2023 a year that has "been challenging, evolving and educational." In a new year's statement, the company noted, "2023...
Barbara Hay has said farewell
Barbara Hay’s life focused on raising young horses and training young riders. She died at her Rainbow Ridge Farm in East Amwell, N.J., on Dec. 27, just three days short of her 72d birthday. A national examiner for the U.S. Pony Club who was the chief horse management...
Big, big bucks for the FEI World Cup finals
The prize money for the 2024 Longines FEI World Cup show jumping finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has been doubled by the organizing committee to a record 2.6 million Euros. Another 100,000 Euros has been added to the purse for the dressage finals, bringing the total to...
Here’s a new year’s resolution for you
Make sure you vaccinate your horses in 2024. An unvaccinated 28-year-old mare in Ocean County, N.J., had to be euthanized after becoming the third confirmed case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in the state for 2023 . She suffered from depression, front and rear...
Some big reinforcements for U.S. dressage hopes
With the 2024 Paris Olympics looming large (the opening ceremonies on the Seine will happen in seven months) two new international-caliber horses have been purchased by Zen Elite Equestrian Center for American riders. The farm near Fort Lauderdale has bought Bohemian,...
A historic feed business is heading west, but not too far from its roots
There’s more to Somerset Grain & Feed than its name implies. In addition to selling sustenance for horses and other animals, grooming tools, pet toys and various agricultural items, it is also a quaint mini museum on the outskirts of suburban Bernardsville, New...
A documentary on racing’s problems focuses on social license to operate–an issue in all of horse sport
A new documentary from FX about horse racing will air next year, contending that fans “increasingly wonder how long one of America’s oldest sports can continue to have its social license renewed.” Called “The New York Times Presents: Broken Horses,” the documentary...
How Ocala horse country saved itself: A lesson for Wellington?
The website Eventing Nation carried this very interesting story by Veronica Green-Gott about how an activist Ocala group (www.horsefarmsforever.com) saved its horse country from construction of a connector road that would have torn up the best farms in Marion County,...
Kentucky competition will be 5-star squared
The rating of the show jumping grand prix held during the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event will be elevated to a 5-star in 2025, to match the eventing competition's status. The Kentucky Invitational, held on the evening of the eventing cross-country at the Kentucky...
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