Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
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FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
McKeever, McCutcheon take titles at Youth Championships
International show jumping star McLain Ward gave a boost to the discipline's next generation by coaching two winners at the Gotham North FEI North American Youth Championships, presented by USHJA,. He helped both Baylee McKeever, the individual gold medalist in the...
Springsteen a big winner in London
The USA's Jessica Springsteen won her first 5-star show jumping competition with her Olympic team silver medal mount, Don Juan van de Donkhoeve, as the duo took the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of London on Sunday. Olivier Philippaerts of Belgium was...
Brits sweep Euro eventing championships, Paris is next
Britain defended its 2021 FEI European Eventing Championships title and then some today at Haras du Pin, as it took not only team honors again, but also collected individual gold and silver with smooth performances by Ros Canter on Lordships Graffalo and Kitty King on...
A new social media policy with teeth
You have until Aug.16 to comment on the FEI's draft of proposed changes to its statutes, and one in particular is worth more than a look. While the list includes everything from restricting the tightness of nosebands to banning grooming and tacking up in stable aisles...
A young U.S. dressage horse makes her mark on the world stage
The only U.S.-bred seven-year-old in the FEI WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses finished a very credible 10th of 40 starters during the competition at Ermelo in the Netherlands on Sunday. Vianne, ridden by Hope Beerling of Australia, earned...
Learn something at a USHJA clinic
Olympic show jumping medalist Anne Kursinski will be offering training insights at a mini-Emerging Athletes Program clinic Aug. 14 at the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation in Gladstone, N.J. Participants at a variety of levels, from 2-foot fences to 3-6, are going to...
WEC Ocala gets team series nod from FEI
The World Equestrian Center in Ocala has been named as one of four venues for the new Longines League of Nations that gets under way next year. The allocations, which run through 2027, were also made for Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, St. Gallen Switzerland...
Herslow’s 2021 Dressage at Devon victory is acknowledged at last
Congratulations to Kim Herslow for winning the 3-star Intermediate I and I-1 Freestyle during Dressage at Devon in 2021. Wait--what? 2021? This is not a news flash that got buried by mistake nearly two years ago. This month, Ailene Cascio, owner of Herslow's mount,...
Show Ring Legend Peggy Augustus is gone away
Peggy Augustus, as well-known in the world of horse showing as she was in thoroughbred racing, died Sunday at her Old Keswick Farm in Charlottesville, Va. She was 90. A member of the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame and the Virginia Horse Show Hall of Fame, she was...
Amateur show jumper dies after fall: UPDATED July 28
Wayne Barr Jr., 59, suffered a fatal accident when he was unseated in a training jumper class at the Saratoga Summer Celebration Horse Show last weekend. During the tiebreaker at the New York competition on Saturday, his horse, Pacco, put in an awkward jump that got...
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