Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
A favorite horse is a big, big winner!
I don't usually write about horse racing these days, but I was so thrilled to watch White Abarrio win the $6 million Longines Breeders Cup Classic Saturday that I had to share my excitement. I have followed this horse from the beginning of his career (there was just...
The Irish make an impact at the National Horse Show
Irish course designer Alan Wade has laid out show jumping fences across Europe and North America, with the FEI World Cup Finals and the FEI World Equestrian Games among the many competitions that have benefited from his style. But until this week, he had never...
Brazil tops Pan Am podium in a thriller, but U.S. is there too
Members of the U.S. gold medal team came close to sweeping the individual show jumping honors at the Pan American Games in Chile Friday, but they wound up settling for silver and bronze. Instead, it was Stephan de Freitas Barcha, ranked number 152 in the world, who...
Individual Pan Am show jumping medals ready to be sorted
The final equestrian drama of the Pan American Games will play out Friday, with the first round at 10 a.m. Eastern time and the second at 1 p.m. There will be 28 starters in the morning, with the USA's McLain Ward (Contagious) and Laura Kraut (Dorado 232) first and...
The U.S. did it–book a plane to Paris: UPDATE
Even before the Pan Am Games team show jumping medals were decided this afternoon in Chile, after three perfect trips in the second round of today's team competition, the U.S. was set to finish high enough to qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Whew! But when the...
Lars Sederholm is gone
Lars Sederholm. the master of Watertock training center in Englan13d, died Oct. 13. The native of Sweden trained many top riders and trainers, including Yogi Breisner, Richard Meade and David O'Connor. He is survived by his daughter, Annika. She said, "He was truly...
A surprise and not a surprise at Pan Am Games eventing
The Canadian team of Mike Winter, Karl Slezak Colleen Loach and Lindsay Traisnel upset the U.S. by 0.1 penalty at the Pan American Games in Chile Sunday to take team gold. But individual gold went home with Caroline Martin Pamakcu on HSH Blake--fresh off a win with...
Washington International wraps up with “wow” performances
In his debut at the Washington International Horse Show, Rene Dittmer of Germany took an armful of special awards. Not only was he leading international rider and leading foreign rider; his mount, Corsica X (Conor X Corofino II), won the international jumper...
A historic individual dressage gold medal at the Pan American Games
He's a resident of North Carolina but rides for Ecuador. And on Wednesday at the Pan American Games in Chile, Julio Mendoza Loor gave his native land something it never had before--a gold medal in dressage. He and Jewel's Goldstrike won the Grand Prix Freestyle with...
A beloved equestrian has passed away
Devoted horsewoman Ann David of Bedminster, N.J., died Saturday at the age of 94. "She was a fabulous person who loved her horses and her dogs," said Tierney Sullivan, a former owner of Coach Stop Saddlery in Bedminster, where Ann had shopped for decades. Ann's home...
