Carol Lavell, a pillar of the 1992 U.S. Olympic bronze medal dressage team, died today, a little more than a week before her 80th birthday. She and her statuesque flashy bay Hanoverian gelding, Gifted, were the rockstars of American dressage in the early 1990s. A...

Services are set March 22 for Olympic and Pan American Games eventing medalist Kevin J. Freeman, 81, who died March 18 in Portland, Oregon. His passing came six weeks after the death of his teammate and close friend of 57 years, Jimmy Wofford. Kevin, who represented...

McLain Ward, who has piled up triumph after triumph since winning the first leg of the Rolex Grand Slam in Geneva last December, had to settle for sixth place tonight in the $500,000 Rolex 5-star Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival. The 40-horse field faced...

Charles "Champ" Hough was only 18 when he made history in Helsinki with the 1952 U.S. Olympic squad, earning a team bronze medal in eventing as the youngest equestrian competitor at those Games. That was the USA's first civilian equestrian team at the Olympics, after...

Laura Roberts, who had been the U.S. Equestrian Federation's dressage performance and event support director, will now be the managing director of dressage. She has moved up to fill the spot vacated by Hallye Griffin when she was promoted to the organization's...

Canadian show jumper Jonathon Millar, who fell and hit his head March 12, underwent brain surgery to stop a bleed and relieve swelling. He is now off sedation and breathing on his own  at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where he is showing promising...

HITS' announcement last month that John Ammerman would return in a mangement capacity to the company's Vermont Summer Festival shows was "premature," Ammerman has said. "After asking for my help as a co-manager (with Joe Dotoli) at the Vermont Summer Festival, the...

Weeks of qualification at Wellington International culminated Friday in the Winter Equestrian Festival Equitation Championship presented by NetJets. Topping the field of 43 was Carlee McCutcheon, from the famous reining family, who has also made a name for herself...

Ralph L. “Larry” Roberts, Sr., 77, patriarch of the family that owns the World Equestrian Centers, died March 19 in Ocala. Mr. Roberts, known as "Senior", was the founder of R+L Carriers. He started in the trucking business in 1965 with a single Ford truck, moving...