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Recognition for Rutgers stalwarts
Dr. Karyn Malinowski, founding director of the Equine Science Center at Rutgers University, received the 2023 Distinguished Service Award at the 2023 Equine Science Society Symposium in Grapevine, Texas. The Distinguished Service Award in Equine Science recognizes...
U.S. eventers place well in Poland
New Jersey's Essex Horse Trials earlier this month turned out to be a good warm-up for the 4-star Strzegom, Poland, eventing Nations Cup, as Caroline Martin Pamucku finished second individually to lead the U.S. team to the silver medal. Caroline, who won the Essex...
A family is honored for three generations of equestrian commitment
The Governor’s Award for New Jersey Horseperson of the Year is plural. It went to a the Wunderlichs, a Sussex County family involved in the horse industry for three generations. The trophy was presented at the 66th Annual New Jersey Breeders Awards Celebration at the...
EHV outbreak at Virginia venue
Two saddlebred at the Virginia Horse Center for the Shenandoah Classic competition tested positive for Equine Herpesivrus-1(EHV-1). Both were taken to a veterinary clinic where one was euthanized and the other is stable after receiving medical care. Approximately 80...
Brits dominate German 5-star, Boyd Martin top American
Laura Collett and London 52 led from gate to wire at the 5-star Luhmuehlen, Germany horse trials to head a British podium parade Sunday. Impeccable throughout, Laura finished on her dressage score of 20.3 penalties, unfazed by Michael Etherington-Smith's twisty-turny...
U.S. U-25 rider second in German freestyle
Californian Christian Simonson was the freestyle runner-up on Son of a Lady Sunday at the Hagen, Germany, show, where the U.S. team took bronze earlier in the week. His score of 79.167 percent was second to Germany's Jana Lang on Baron with an 83.5. “It was the last...
Wrapping up the weekend show jumping action
This weekend was quite a busy one both north and south on the grand prix show jumping front. McLain Ward got himself back on his usual winning track in Virginia, after a miss in Devon's big class earlier in the month, while Laura Chapot went 1-2 at Saugerties, N.Y....
A well-known stable gets a new direction
Somerset County, N.J.'s former Lord Stirling stable in Basking Ridge is getting back into the swing of things after a halt to its major equestrian programs due to Covid in 2020. An open house over the weekend for its new equine-assisted therapies program, Rocking...
What is it about Devon?
There have been dozens of show jumping grands prix around the country since the beginning of the year. Do you remember who won them? It's easy to take a guess--McLain Ward, Kent Farrington, Karl Cook, but as one show comes after another, it's just as easy to forget...
Endurance world championship team dethroned
Bahrain has been stripped of the team world endurance championship, after a horse ridden by one member of the squad tested positive for a banned substance, stanozolol, 16-beta-hydroxystanozolol. Hera Durances, ridden in the February race in the United Arab Emirates by...
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