Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Dressage at Devon cancelled
The "uncertainty of the time" led to today's announcement that Dressage at Devon is cancelled. The September show, a highlight of the year, was called off "to ensure the safety of our competitors, vendors, sponsors, spectators and our wonderful volunteers," according...
What’s the deal with the new TerraNova show facility in Florida?
TerraNova near Sarasota, Fla., burst on the scene during the autumn with its first eventing competition. Next up is a Split Rock CSI 2-star in January. The venue is drawing raves for its scenic setting and top-of-the-line arenas just a half hour's drive from the city....
Pentathlon Union votes to drop riding, but that may not be the end of the story
The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has taken a formal vote to drop show jumping from its program following the Paris Olympics in 2024, although protests of the move have come from representatives of numerous nations. However, a group called Pentathlon...
Racing pillar John von Stade has left us
He was the ultimate volunteer. John von Stade, who died yesterday at the age of 83 after a long illness, spent 50 years as co-chair of the Far Hills Race Meeting while it went from being an event that attracted a few thousand spectators to the country’s richest day of...
National Snaffle Bit gets another hunter/jumper show series
The Sonoma (Calif.) Horse Park will hold its six 2022 hunter/jumper shows from May to September under the auspices of the National Snaffle Bit Association, rather than the U.S. Equestrian Federation, it was announced today. Last week, word from the park was that it...
Equestrian phase of modern pentathlon on the way out
Show jumping will be dropped from the modern pentathlon lineup after the Paris Olympics in 2024, according to several media accounts. The sport received an unwelcome spotlight in Tokyo after a horse refused with a German rider who had been leading the competition to...
Clooney made it!
Martin Fuchs' marvelous horse Clooney, who suffered a life-threatening accident in his pasture accident during the summer, finally came home this week. The Westphalian gelding Martin rode to the European show jumping championship in 2019 slipped in his pasture Aug. 16...
Fair Hill’s cross-country debut is a hit
The crowds turned out for the debut of the new Maryland 5 star event’s cross-country day, flocking to the Fair Hill Special Event Zone in numbers never seen over the last 32 years at the old Fair Hill International fixture in another area of the late William DuPont’s...
Dressage trainer Michael Barisone will be tried in 2022 for attempted murderer
More than two years after Michael Barisone was charged in connection with the shooting of a tenant at his Long Valley, N.J., horse farm, a February trial date has been set for the 2008 Olympic dressage alternate. His lawyer, Ed Bilinkas indicated during a hearing in...
Annual meetings going virtual–again
The U.S. Dressage Federation and the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association have scrapped plans for in-person annual meetings later this autumn and will go virtual, as they did last year USHJA Executive Director Kevin Price said a survey sent out by the organization, asking...
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