Nancy Jaffer
EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
NEWS AND FEATURES
FROM NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND
A new route for the Tewksury Trail Pace
The Tewksbury Trail Pace, a longtime fixture at Christie Hoffman Farm Park in the Tewksbury Township, will be blazing new trails next month at the Sullivan-Whitman Preserve, 27 Fox Hill Road, Califon. The Tewksbury Trail Association is partnering with the Tewksbury...
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...
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,...
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...
Springsteen horse bows out
The U.S. show jumping team was left without an alternate at the FEI World Championships in Denmark. Jessica Springsteen's horse, RMF Zecilie, a 2007 Holsteiner mare owned by Rushy Marsh Farm LLC, was part of the team’s practice jog prior to the first horse inspection...
Brandywine won’t run again
The Brandywine Horse Shows, which were not held this summer due to lack of entries, are ending their 12-year run at the Devon, Pa., showgrounds. When the Traverse City shows in Michigan were awarded the Junior Hunter Finals on the Pennyslvania competition's dates,...
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...
