Just when the Wellington, Fla., Village Council should have gotten its first crack at evaluating the controversial development proposals from Wellington Lifestyle Partners Tuesday night, the applicant asked for a postponement after additional...

Luke Jensen was second last year in the Platinum Performance/U.S. Equestrian Federation Show Jumping Talent Search Finals East, but for 2023, the determined rider could not be denied the top spot. The championship, which enjoys extra prestige...

Who could have predicted this? In an incredibly happy twist of fate, an iconic New Jersey stable property that seemed destined for a housing development has been purchased to continue as a home for horses. It gets even better. Top jumper...

It takes more than a little rain to discourage dressage riders from participating in a competition they have anticipated all season long. Actually, even a whole lot of rain Saturday couldn’t dampen spirits during the Eastern States Dressage and...

We were lucky, those of us who experienced the excitement of Thursday night at the National Horse Show in its heyday at New York City's Madison Square Garden. The hot ticket was the Puissance (even more than the closing day's grand prix), and the...

Daniel Bluman couldn't have cut it any closer. A heartbeat. An instant. Little more than a 10th of a second was all that separated the winner of the 4-star HITS $300,000 Grand Prix from runner-up McLain Ward in a hold-your-breath jump-off on...

It was game, set and match for defending titleist Jessica von Bredow-Werndl at the FEI European Dressage Championships on Sunday, as the 2021 Olympic gold medalist and the impeccable TSF Dalera BB won the Grand Prix Freestyle in Riesenbeck,...

Aachen, which in 2006 produced the most successful of the FEI World Equestrian Games™, has put in a bid to host every world championship but endurance in 2026. Just as it does with its annual show, the German venue wants to present Jumping,...

It is heartbreaking news: The family of Tempel Smith this month announced the closing of the ground-breaking Tempel Lipizzans program, which introduced so many in this country to dressage and this beautiful breed. When Tempel and Esther Smith...

Handling both the heat of competition and the heat of broiling temperatures with a feel like triple digits, Christian Simonson took the Neue Schule/USEF Intermediate I championship on Son of a Lady during the Dressage Festival of Champions on...

A U.S.-owned Irish hunter purchased off a video has made history at the Dublin Horse Show. Dr. Brendan Furlong's Bloomfield Watergate, the show's Supreme Young Horse as a 3-year-old in 2022, was named Supreme Hunter Champion this month for what is...

You really can't count on anything in life, and nowhere is that more true than in the cross-country phase of eventing. Overnight leader Michael Jung of Germany, who has boatloads of world championships, European and Olympic medals, won't be adding...

After a 40-year gap in bringing home the Aga Khan trophy, the Swiss team reclaimed the prize with a stunning victory in the FEI Nations Cup of Ireland on Friday. The fans who jammed the stands around the massive arena at the Royal Dublin Society...

Debbie McDonald, who has been synonymous with U.S. dressage excellence during this century, is stepping down Aug. 1 from her post as the U.S. Equestrian Federation's technical advisor in the discipline. “After many discussions, it’s a difficult...

The fabulous dressage star Valegro marked his 21st birthday last week. Atop the Olympic multi-gold medal champion for the occasion was the daughter of his famous rider, Charlotte Dujardin. The fact that little Isabella Rose is not even six months...

The final day of the CHIO Aachen World Equestrian Festival is always emotional, ending with the aufwiedersehen tradition of the crowd and competitors waving goodbye as white handkerchiefs flutter everywhere in the stadium to the accompaniment of...

The eventers persevered today through a reversal of fortune to finish second after a demanding cross-country test, producing the best placing of any U.S. team at the five-discipline equestrian festival in Germany. Will Coleman, who won at Aachen...

Legendary Aachen has it all--pomp, an incredible sense of the occasion, an educated audience (45,000 were in the stands for the show jumping Nations Cup) that knows when to cheer and when to groan. But most important, of course, is the wide array...

The U.S. team was standing second this morning after the dressage phase of eventing at the exciting Aachen competition, but the show jumping segment during the afternoon dropped the squad to fourth. There's still hope, however, and you know how...

Buying a weanling as a sport horse prospect is a long road. But the trip has been worth it so far for eventer Arielle Aharoni, who earned the best placing of her career with the multi-talented Dutch Times at the MARS Equestrian Bromont 4-Star Long...

How many times have you heard complaints about issues in the sport and what equestrian governance organizations are doing -- or not doing -- about them? But if all the conversations go nowhere, it's frustrating. And that applies not only to those...

Ellie Wood Page Keith Baxter, the winner of the 1936 ASPCA Maclay Finals, died Monday at the age of 101. An active fox hunter who also starred with hunters in the show ring, the Virginian was inducted into the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame in...

U.S. competitors Boyd Martin and Phillip Dutton dominated the top placings in the major divisions at the Mars Equestrian: Bromont CCI in Quebec, Canada, with Phillip rising from 15th in dressage on Azure in the 4-Star Long to first after...

The biggest assignment of my fledgling sports writing career put me at Belmont Park on June 9, 1973, shadowing Penny Chenery Tweedy, the powerful chestnut’s patrician owner. I wrote what is known as a sidebar; not the main story about the most...

Not surprisingly, Hannah Sue Hollberg is a big fan of the Essex Horse Trials. It wasn't just that she won $10,000 Sunday in the Open Intermediate section, where she was the only rider to finish in a field of three, and she topped the  Preliminary...

The Essex Horse Trials  at the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation offered the perfect location to prep for her upcoming eventing Nations Cup in Poland, according to Caroline Martin Pamukcu, who won the Advanced Combined Test Saturday with HSH Blake....

Is Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital the best place to provide treatment for Michael Barisone, found not guilty by reason of insanity in his 2022 trial on a charge of second-degree attempted murder? The dressage trainer's legal team contended in...

The home team scored an important victory in California Sunday afternoon, as the squad won the first Longines FEI Nations Cup of the USA ever held on the West Coast. It comes after a triumph in the Mexican leg of the Cup last month, and puts the...

Great Britain's Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo led wire-to-wire to win the Badminton Horse Trials by a mile, with a mere 1.6 time penalties added as they proceeded around a show jumping course that cost rails for all but four of the 30...

This weekend's Badminton Horse Trials in England is the world's second 5-star-rated event in a row, but it has no shortage of entries--or spectators. In fact, Sunday's cross-country was sold out. Even the Duke of Beaufort's estate has room for only...

It may seem as if there has always been a Kentucky Derby, but of course, everything has to start somewhere. For the Derby, that was 1875, and its debut is the focal point of a book being published this month by Eclipse Press, "The First Kentucky...

If you weren't able to get to Kentucky for the 5 star Land Rover Three-Day Event over the weekend, there are more chances to see highlights of the event in a one-hour show. They will air on NBC on Saturday May 13 at 2:30 p.m.  Eastern Time and on...

"Thank you for coming. See you next year." Daniel Bluman, winner of Saturday night's $226,000 Kentucky CSI3* Invitational Grand Prix, greeted fan after fan from a crowd of 10,224 as they passed while he rode in a golf cart from the Rolex Stadium to...

What a surprise! Tamie Smith found herself on top of the standings Saturday at the 5-star Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event when world champion Yasmin Ingham of Great Britain ran into big trouble on the cross-country course at fence 6C, a narrow...

I was watching carefully Friday as Yasmin Ingham--that's Eventing World Champion Yasmin Ingham--rode Banzai du Loir around the outside of the dressage arena at the 5-star Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. It was an intimidating setting, with a...

This year's Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event has nearly everything anyone devoted to the sport would want--stellar entries from the U.S. and overseas, a scenic cross-country course, acres of shopping and an opportunity to enjoy a world-class...

Could this be the year that a U.S. rider will win the Kentucky 5-star three-day event for the first time since 2008? It's something that's wondered annually about the championship at the Kentucky Horse Park. The prospects were looking up early this...

They were a legendary pair, Greg Best and Gem Twist. In 1988, when Greg was only 24 years old, he and the sensational grey thoroughbred earned the individual show jumping silver at the Seoul Olympics and were part of the silver medal team there....

The idea of establishing 3-foot/3-inch and 3-6 hunter divisions for adult amateurs who don't own their own horses generally got a thumbs-down reaction during a U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Town Hall on Zoom Monday night. The session, led by USHJA...

(An update on survivors and memorial arrangements is at the end of this obituary) Legendary steward, stable manager and equine caregiver Karen Golding died Friday morning after a long illness. Karen, 72, had been hospitalized recently after her...

The competition was, of course, the focal point of the FEI World Cup Finals in Omaha, where show jumping, dressage and vaulting titles were decided. (To read about the competitions, click on the "previous columns" icon at the top of the main page....

The FEI World Cup Finals in Omaha ended with an intense two-round show jumping competition Saturday night, keeping spectators in suspense until the final horse faulted. But after all that, it wound up with the most predictable victor, just as the...

Defending champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB soared on a glittering wave of fluid movement and perfect harmony to take the FEI  World Cup Dressage Final last night for the second time. Although their mark of 90.482 percent in...

The deck was shuffled in the second jumping competition at the Longines FEI World Cup Finals in Omaha, with two riders on the move tied at the top, while Wednesday's leader, world champion Henrik von Eckermann of Sweden, found himself demoted to...

If you wanted to pick a winner in the opening classes of dressage and show jumping at the FEI World Cup classes, very little handicapping was required. Hours after defending dressage Cup champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl of Germany topped the...

Show jumper Devin Ryan is, in a sense, back where his rise to the top of his sport began. The venue is different but the event is the same, the Longines FEI World Cup Finals. In 2018, longshots Devin and the brilliant Eddie Blue were a surprise...

The Adequan Global Dressage Festival, the nation's premier circuit in the discipline, came to an end last week after a run that began in early January. Going forward, there's always curiosity about what's next for exciting up-and-coming riders who...

Graeme Thom, the U.S. Equestrian Federation's director of FEI/High Performance Sport, has stepped down after six months in the post to attend to "personal obligations" with the countdown to the Paris Olympics less than 17 months away, and the Pan...

The North American League of the Longines FEI World Cup will field a bunch of heavy hitters against the best Europe has to offer when they go to Omaha for the finals next month. The League wrapped up Sunday in Ocala, where the final points for the...

Are you happy with the conditions for horse-keeping in your state? Or are you thinking of relocating to a more horse-friendly environment? It's a tough decision, but a company called Lawn Love has made it a bit easier by ranking the Best States for...

Beloved veterinarian Dr. Meg Mullin, "dedicated her life to what she did and had fun doing it." That comment, from Will Connell, former U.S. Equestrian Federation director of sport, sums up the essence of Dr. Mullin, who died Thursday after weeks...

Irish rider Daniel Coyle, who is leading the North American League for the FEI World Cup Finals, is ready for a serious shot at the global indoor jumping championship in Omaha next month. He demonstrated his prowess on Sunday in the Winter...

It came down to the wire: would Anna Buffini get the final North American slot in the FEI World Cup Dressage Finals, or was it possible that Sarah Tubman could earn the trip to April’s competition in Omaha? Although there were nine others riding to...

In her quest to qualify for next month’s FEI World Cup Dressage Finals, Anna Buffini came east from California with FRH Davinia La Douce to compete in the final qualifier at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Fla. The effort paid...

I often find that the people involved in putting on an equestrian competition may be as interesting as those participating in it. Such is the case with Bernardo Costa Cabral, the 45-year-old course designer from Portugal who will head the team...

The Adequan® U.S. Para Dressage Team came through again to win the championship at the CHI Al Shaqab CPEDI3* in Qatar this weekend. The para riders were the only American team at last year's world championships in Herning, Denmark, to come away...

The Canadian team gave the best possible welcome gift to its new chef d’equipe, Ian Millar, as it handily won the $150,000 CSIO 4-star Nations Cup at the Winter Equestrian Festival Saturday night. Ian, formerly known as Captain Canada for his...

Even as the decades sped by, the dedicated alumni of Junior Essex Troop never forgot lessons learned or friends made in the cadet auxiliary of the Essex Troop, 102d Cavalry, New Jersey National Guard. As youngsters on a 13-acre farm in West Orange,...