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A new 5-star for Kentucky…
The Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event has always been at the top of the eventing game, but now it's upping the ante for its companion grand prix show jumping competition to have a matching 5-star in that discipline. The show jumping, which offers its grand prix on...
UPDATE: Save the date for Meg Mullin, and learn about a fund in her memory
A celebration of life for much-admired veterinarian Meg Mullin will be held May 26 at the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation in Gladstone, N.J. Details are yet to come. Dr. Mullin died earlier this month after a February riding accident in Florida. She was a sports...
Grand Prix dressage winner no surprise at the World Cup: Update
Consider it almost a foregone conclusion: Olympic champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl of Germany won the Grand Prix at the FEI World Cup Dressage Finals today, earning 79.22 percent on her dependable16-year-old mare, TSF Dalera BB. Defending her 2022 Cup title, Jessica...
Warming up for the Dressage World Cup
After Alice Tarjan won the FEI World Cup qualifier at Dressage at Devon last autumn, she wasn't planning on being at the Cup finals this week in Omaha. "I was joking to Lauren (Chumley), `Wouldn't it be funny if we qualified for the World Cup?'" Alice asked her...
Carol Lavell has left us
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...
Eventer Kevin Freeman passed away
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...
A winning streak ends
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...
UPDATE: Celebration of Life set for Champ Hough, an all-around horseman
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...
USEF dressage has a new managing director
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...
Jonathon Millar needs help: UPDATE
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...
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