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Hitting the high notes with horses
The Hunterdon Symphony is opening its 2025-26 season with Equestrian Orchestrations, a concert keyed to a theme of horses. It's set for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Raritan Township, N.J. The symphony's concerts often are performed...
More honors delivered at U.S. Dressage Finals: UPDATE
Kristin Wasemiller-Knutson and Vashti, the combination that won the Open Grand Prix Freestyle at the U.S. Dressage Finals in 2021, did it again on Saturday night during the show at the World Equestrian Center in Wilmington, Ohio. “I could not have been happier with my...
Some key rules are up for consideration by USHJA (including one about mules)
There were several hot-button topics during the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association's rule change webinar Monday, with more than 200 people on line during the three-and-a-half hour session. But one of the most intense reactions was to a proposal involving a 60-day...
Titleists named at U.S. Dressage Finals
Two New Jersey riders, who often have been winners at the U.S. Dressage Finals, continued their success as the competition moved its full schedule to a new venue, the World Equestrian Center in Wilmington, Ohio. Since the competition there this week is in several...
Dressage world number one does it again
It wasn't a personal best, but Belgium's Justin Verboomen and Zonik Plus kept a narrow margin over Becky Moody and Jagerbomb from Great Britain to take the dressage freestyle at the Equita Lyon show in France on Friday. The class is a qualifier for the FEI Dressage...
Lu Thomas has left us: Update with insight from her husband
Lu Thomas, a pillar of horse sport in Northern California, has passed away after years spent battling cancer. She was 79. Equally successful in the jumpers and the hunters, she and her husband, Graeme (Butch) Thomas, were a formidable training combination. Their...
Kraut on top at Washington
Nearly 50 years after she made her debut on a pony at the Washington International Horse Show, Laura Kraut won its marquee President's Cup Saturday night for the second time. Aboard Tres Bien, she took on the Nick Granat-designed course with a key decision early in...
Another podium finish for Boyd Martin, this time at Pau 5-Star
Boyd Martin and Cooley Nutcracker moved up from tenth place to third as the season's last 5-Star event ended at Pau on Sunday. New Zealand's Tim Price won with the Dutchbred Jarillo, going from fourth in dressage to third after cross-country. He was then double-clear...
Alan Wade will design LA28 Olympic show jumping courses
He's not an American, but Alan Wade spends a lot of time in the U.S. So he will be a very familiar face as the show jumping course designer for the 2028 Olympics at Santa Anita. The Irishman laid out the routes for the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final 2017...
Course designer named for Ft. Worth FEI World Cup Finals
Anderson Lima, who did such a good job laying out the route for the Sapphire Grand Prix of Devon last spring, has been named as the course designer for the April 2026 FEI World Cup Show Jumping Finals in Ft. Worth. The Mexican designer has been part of the design team...
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