One man’s flooded arena is another man’s water training gift from above — especially if that man (or woman) is an eventer. A year or two ago a video was circulating around of Olympic, World
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It’s been a hot minute since our last edition of “Event Horse Names” but the cold weather coupled with lack of actual eventing news to report has me feeling inspired to pick it back up.
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You can tell when a rider knows they just had the ride of a lifetime — it’s written all over their face! Throughout last year the USEA did a bang-up job of capturing those moments
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January can be brutal; there’s no need for sugar coating. As I sit here typing these words, I can hear gusts of wind traveling through the woods and smashing into our home. Temperatures have reached
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I can see it all now. The groom, flinging something across the barn aisle, running screaming out of the barn, jumping in a car and driving away, never to be seen again. The trainer —
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It’s never easy to grow up riding in an area that isn’t saturated with eventing. Kristine Burgess, a Minnesota native, knows this quite well, but it hasn’t stopped her from shining as a young talent
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Last week it was E25, this week it’s the E18’s who are soaking up the high performance attention. It’s amazing to see how quickly these two programs have evolved from their inception. With their own
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Hunting vicariously through the UK’s Pearson Eventing is one of our favorite off-season pastimes here at EN — we posted another of Alice’s always-thrilling helmet cam videos just weeks ago. So it was with a
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Last week we gave all you snowbirds preparing to spread your wings and fly, fly, far away from here to Aiken a list of things to eat, drink, see and do while in town. This
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Niklas Bschorer ran away with the reader voting for our 2015 Stickability Awards, and we caught up with this up-and-coming German rider to learn more about his heart-stopping save at Badminton aboard Tom Tom Go 3. Nik
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Paul Tapner’s four-star partner Indian Mill has been sold to the U.S., and Phillip Dutton will compete the horse for his new owner this spring. David Garrett purchased the 11-year-old Thoroughbred gelding as a potential
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Our thoughts are with Nora Battig and her team after Steppin’ Out, her 11-year-old Trakehner/Thoroughbred mare, was euthanized yesterday in Ocala
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Here in Maryland the four letter S word has finally made its way into our weather forecasts, with indications of a decent accumulation for this weekend. High temperatures this week will barely break the freezing mark, and
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Laine Ashker took her helmet cam to the brand new Three Lakes Horse Trials at Caudle Ranch this weekend, where she was competing five horses across three levels. So, we get a view of nearly
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Picture an early, foggy morning at a racetrack in Ocala, where the sun is only just rising and a group of young Thoroughbreds are being tacked up in preparation to start the day. That’s the routine that
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As the guru George H. Morris once said, “Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.” No matter what level you’re at — whether you’re competing at
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We’re continuing to send our best wishes to Carl Bouckaert, who is on the mend after suffering a severe leg injury in a dirt bike accident at his farm at Chattahoochee Hills in Georgia last month. Carl has since undergone
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How are you holding up out there, Eventing Nation? Staying warm? Staying dry? #eventerproblems A photo posted by Summer Burgess (@smerkiejoe) on Jan 15, 2016 at 2:12pm PST You don’t have to answer that. We
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It seemed like some sort of joke when American Pharoah, the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years, was denied the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award for 2015. He was the runaway favorite
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It’s so much fun to have a new horse trials added to the USEA Omnibus, and there has been quite a lot of buzz about Three Lakes Horse Trials, which premiered this weekend in Groveland,
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When the days are cold and blustery, I try to rush in and out of the house as quickly as possible to keep any chilly air from making its way inside. No one likes a
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Harveywetdog has been digging up eventing footage from the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and just recently posted this cross country clip featuring Ingrid Klimke with Sleep Late and Karen O’Connor with Prince Panache. In addition
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Trainer applications for the 2016 Thoroughbred Makeover are being accepted through January 31, meaning it’s not too late to enter your OTTB for a chance at this year’s competition. We’re big fans of the OTTB
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