Trainer Joy Kloss, who ran Fox Hunt Farm in Lumberton, N.J., died suddenly on Thanksgiving night in Tryon, N.C. She was 71. A USEF judge, she was a respected trainer who gave clinics and was involved in horse sales. Callan Solem, who met Joy through her own mentor,...

A memorial service will be held next year for Sergeantsville Grain & Feed owner James Fred McCue Jr., who died Nov. 7 at age 73. The son of Esther Mastrobattista McCue and James Fred McCue Sr., Jim was a native of Bernardsville, where he was the 1967 Heavyweight...

Barbara Isaac, one of the country’s pioneers in therapeutic riding, died Nov. 14 in Ormond Beach, Fla., at the age of 91. The founder, with her husband, Hanen, in 1979 of the Handicapped High Riders Club which became Riding High Farm in Allentown, N.J., she was part...

The mascots of the 2024 Paris Olympics have been announced, and they are....two hats. Not berets, which might first come to mind when thinking of a French chapeau. The honor instead goes to Phyrigian caps, to be called the Phryges, for short.  The Phyrigian cap was a...

Cody Dorman, a 16-year-old with a rare genetic disorder, got the attention of the nation when his namesake, Cody's Wish, won the dirt mile at the Breeders' Cup earlier this month. Cody was on hand for that victory--the four-year-old thoroughbred he met as a foal...

The Rutgers Equine Science Center has established a scholarship in memory of former Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer, a champion of the New Jersey horse indsutry who died earlier this year. He served the 12th Legislative District and was the deputy Republican Leader in...

The USEF's national advanced single horse combined driving championship for 2023 will be held at the Horse Park of New Jersey in Allentown October 5-8 at the Garden State CDE. All but one of the other national driving championships next year will be held in Ocala,...

Kay Meredith, a founding member of the U.S. Dressage Federation, has died in hospice. The president of USDF from 1977-82, the native of West Virginia was a mentor to many, and her Meredith Manor gave riders a leg up in the discipline. She was the 1979 American Horse...

The U.S. Equestrian Federation is advising competitors who intentionally under-perform in a class not to do it. It might occur when someone is put in a class to fill it so that points count, and they need to make sure another exhibitor will place ahead of them. USEF...