Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
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FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
Another loss for horse sport as a true gentleman leaves us
Jack Pemberton, a true gentleman who had a huge influence on the sport of driving, has died at age 99. He was a leader who always delighted in sharing his knowledge. Jack competed against and became friends with royalty, but anyone involved in the sport, whether they...
Safer equestrian helmets are on the way
A new era is dawning for equestrian helmets. Virginia Tech’s Helmet Lab is close to announcing a star system that would rate riding helmet safety. The lab’s work began with football helmets but has now expanded to youth football, flag football, hockey, cycling,...
A sad farewell to a beloved trainer
From the biggest names in U.S. eventing, to competitors whose names you wouldn't likely recognize, Richard Mark Picken, is being mourned and many show jumping rounds are being ridden in his memory. The trainer bowed out at the age of 53 on August 13, after a...
Tarjan makes the list
Alice Tarjan, the alternate for the U.S. 2022 FEI World Championships dressage team, has been named to the U.S. Equestrian Federation's list for its pre-elite program. The Oldwick, N.J., resident was selected with Serenade MF and Donatella M. Serenade went to Germany...
Para saves the day at the world championships
The U.S. is going home with some medals from the Ecco FEI World Championships after all. Although the dressage and show jumping teams didn’t medal in Herning, Denmark, the Adequan Para Dressage Team took bronze, along with an individual silver and bronze in the...
World’s number one show jumper glitters with another gold
Five tough rounds of show jumping over the last week were no match for Henrik von Eckermann and his barefoot King Edward, as the world’s number one ranked rider and team gold medalist for Sweden took the individual title at the Agria World Championships in Herning,...
Wanna bet?
Organized gambling on show jumping has been discussed for years, and got some consideration after the FEI World Cup finals first came to betting-centric Las Vegas in 2000. But now it has become reality via several websites, and the U.S. Equestrian Federation is taking...
It’s Swe-den, Swe-den at the FEI World Show Jumping Championships
It was an FEI world championships show jumping team medal finals to make your head spin, with reversals of fortune aplenty during this evening in Herning, Denmark. But there were two things that didn’t change. The Olympic champion Swedes, who had taken control of the...
A tough day for the USA at the world championships
It was bad news for the U.S. show jumping team today at the Agria FEI World Championships, as it finished just one place out from qualifying for tomorrow’s final round of Nations Cup competition. But it gets worse. The goal for the show jumping team in these...
Swedes lead, U.S. ninth as world championships show jumping begins
Brian Moggre, only 21 and riding in his first international senior championships, made his mark as the top American finisher today in the Ecco FEI World Championships, not far behind some of the greatest names in the sport of show jumping. The results of the speed...
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