The long-running legal drama connected with dressage trainer Michael Barisone continues, nearly four years after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity on an attempted second-degree murder charge involving the 2019 shooting of a tenant at his farm. Last week,...

As the new year gallops toward us, let's take a little half-halt to look back on 2025 and see where we've been, before we turn our attention to where we're going. At the high end, the wealthy who want to participate in horse sports are doing just fine, as you would...

Ian Balding, the British trainer of the great Mill Reef among many top-class horses, has died at the age of 87. A social media post from Park House Stables called him, “A wonderful family man, a hugely successful racehorse trainer and a brilliant sportsman. He was...

The world's number one-ranked show jumper, Kent Farrington, has won yet another grand prix -- but this time with a new horse. On Saturday at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, the U.S. star topped a field of 28 with a skillfully executed jump-off on Descartes, a...

You may know her best as an interviewer and analyst on the live stream, but Jessica Kürten has just been appointed Horse Sport Ireland's new High Performance Jumping Manager, succeeding Michael Blake. One of Ireland’s most accomplished, and influential figures in...

It has been an incredible year for the low-key world number one Justin Verboomen of Belgium and his fabulous Hanoverian stallion Zonik Plus, with victories at Aachen and the European Championships. On Sunday, the duo finished their year in the same style, with a...

Show jumping often is called a lifetime sport. No one takes that more seriously than John Whitaker, who spent decades as a mainstay of the British team and is still going at age 70. When the London International Horse Show drew to a close Sunday, John found himself in...

Explosion W got a salute worthy of a remarkable show jumper who had won 16 5-stars and individual Olympic gold. as he retired with Ben Maher aboard at the London International Horse Show on Sunday night. A sold-out arena cheered him and 6,000 glow sticks were waved in...

The survival of struggling national-level jumping show circuits, the places where riders can improve their skills at less cost than on the international level, is a global concern. It was a topic last week at both the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association's annual meeting in...