If there is one thing snow is good for (and I’m cataloguing them now to make myself feel better), it’s photos. You can seriously make things look magical in the snow. Ponies. Sunsets. Dogs running
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“It takes a village.” That’s a saying we use often in the horse world, and it’s one that’s especially applicable in the context of getting our athletes on the podium. From the vets and farriers
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Jumping from the trot is an important exercise — and harder than it looks. It’s a good test of rideability and a common deal-breaker on handy hunter courses, with horses rushing the last few steps
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Before we embark upon our weekly OTTB shopping (or at least window shopping!) spree, a quick reminder that the deadline for 2016 Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover trainer applications is next Monday, Jan. 31. To
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Phillip Dutton joined a long list of accomplished athletes last weekend when he received the 2016 Whitney Stone Cup at Louisburg Farm in Wellington at the Rockin’ Rio benefit fundraiser that raised $1.5 million to
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Generally speaking, I’m what you would call a practical girl. I focus in on function…because above all else, I appreciate a job well done. It doesn’t matter how pretty or fancy something is. If it
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There is still so much snow on the ground! We’re still seeing numerous photos of various stages of snow removal, as well as a few of people and their horses out enjoying (is that the
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As if we hadn’t embarrassed Boyd Martin enough in the last few days … First, he runs wild through Wellington while filming a commercial, and then his wife Silva sent us this video of Boyd back when he
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Have you checked out Eventing Nation’s hot-off-the-presses new sister site Jumper Nation yet? If not, you should — here’s a sampling of what we’ve got going on over there. The hunter/jumper world has some “insanity
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At this point in my life, I’ve learned well enough that it is important to plan ahead. Impulsive, while fun and adventurous, often times does not turn out well. Especially in cases when you say,
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There are a lot of things that I don’t like about the snowy winter season. Don’t get me wrong…there’s nothing better than going for a ride right after a snow storm. Everything is perfectly serene,
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Reddit, the “front page of the internet,” hosts Photoshop battles in which the citizens of the web are turned loose to photo-manipulate images that are then up for a popular vote to declare a winner. Entries
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Lauren Kieffer will campaign a new upper-level horse this year in D.A. Duras, an 8-year-old Dutch gelding that finished ninth in the FEI World Breeding Eventing CCI2* Championships at Le Lion d’Angers in France last fall with Kelly Prather in
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What’s your problem? Our #EventerProblems series gallops onward at 570mpm with the airing of 30 more reader-submitted grievances. When you’re really sore from a workout and you try your horse’s new Back On Track sheet…
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Ok, so I know this is not necessarily eventing-related, but hear me out. The barn my coach and I are renting stalls from in Ocala this winter is home to a couple of accomplished Mustang
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Elisa Wallace picked up a new mustang this past week in Jacksonville, Fl. to train for a client, Ginny Grigsby. Azogar, or “Ozzie”, is a 9-year-old from the Kiger HMA and he is already off
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The third annual Trifecta Event at Galway Downs was held this weekend to knock the rust off for the upcoming season. Eventers of all levels ventured out to learn from Ian Stark and Boyd Martin.
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We know horse equipment looks weird to the ordinary human. We get it. SmartPak does, too, and they decided to make an entire new video series on this concept. They’ve started the series by presenting
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East coast eventers had quite the exciting weekend when Mother Nature decided to bury us alive in snow. Of course, we don’t fold that easily. Exhibit A: this photo Phyllis Dawson sent us from Purcellville,
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So. Much. Snow. That seems to be the theme of the weekend as #Snowpocalypse2016 slammed the East Coast that has claimed as many as 14 lives and left thousands digging out from beneath huge snow
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I empathize with everyone who had to shovel driveways and clear snow from roofs this weekend but slightly jealous of the folks going for bareback rides through the drifts. We were spared from knee deep
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This weekend, we’ve seen our biggest snowstorm here in PA that I can remember. I’ve never seen this much snow around the farm before. The act of just getting down to the barn to feed
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The Mid-Atlantic region was crippled by a brutal winter storm over the weekend, with parts of the region receiving over 30 inches of snow. To all the eventers and equestrians who weathered the storm: I
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