After Paris Olympian Liz Halliday suffered a traumatic brain injury in a fall on cross country at the USEA American Eventing Championships in August, the eventing community was quick to rally around her in support.
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It seems like these days we look at each other’s lives through the lens of a highlight reel. We get to see the incredible trips, the best jumps, and the moments that we’re proud enough
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Eventing’s going large in France for the second time this summer and there’s no doubt that the home crowd at Pau will deliver all of the joyous celebration of our awesome sport that we saw
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I’m going to be totally, wholly, and completely honest with you here: sometimes, on this funny Thursday at Pau, which is split by a morning horse inspection and an afternoon dressage session, I struggle to
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You know what takes a long time? A horse inspection with 73 horses in it. You know what takes even longer? A horse inspection with 73 horses in it and an evidently lonely holding box
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It’s a story we’ve written before, and yet another one demonstrative of the grit, strength, and talent of a certain fleabitten gray gelding who collects a fourth CCI5* trophy this weekend at the MARS Maryland
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This morning’s Final Horse Inspection at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, presented by Brown Advisory, proved to be quite drama-free. We only had eight horses to see in the 5* jog, and 43 to see
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Cosby Green has been excited to return home to the U.S. after some time away basing in the UK with Tim and Jonelle Price, but she certainly didn’t expect to be sitting front and center
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It’s a beautifully crisp fall morning here at Morven Park, where bright and early this morning we saw the FEI divisions trot up for their respective Ground Jury members to ensure the horses were fit
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It’s 5.15 p.m., and we’re moments away from starting the post-cross-country press conference at Military Boekelo – a press conference that’ll be bellowed over the sounds of the two closest beer tents, one of which
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“Look, if I could understand this horse, my life would be a lot easier,” laughs Laura Collett of the fifteen-year-old Dacapo, who marched into the lead in the final session today with a sparkling, established
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A trifecta of American eventing has come together at the Morven Park Equestrian Center this weekend. Not only did the iconic CCI4*-L get underway, but this weekend also marks the opening leg of the US
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A scant few years ago, you’d have been forgiven for not being able to name a single Swiss event rider. Now, though, the times are a-changing – or have been changing, really, for an Olympic
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Could it be argued that today’s Defender Burghley showjumping track was built on the softer side? Absolutely – it certainly walked as a much different type of track than the enormously influential one we saw
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And so we find ourselves on the edge of our seats, chomping at the bit to discover who will take home the Burghley trophy, but there’s much more than the glory, impressive purse and gorgeous
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The field of competitors at the Defender Burghley CCI5* has thinned from 43 to 39 after this morning’s final horse inspection, which took place after a night of heavy rain on site. Three of those
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Collectively, there probably hasn’t been many hours of sleep logged amongst the competitors at Defender Burghley ahead of today’s cross-country day; what little that was, no doubt, was plagued with night sweats and prolonged horror
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There are two easy ways to put the pressure on a seriously fit event horse in the dressage ring at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials – you can present them with a boisterous, determined wind,
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We spoke too much, yesterday, about Burghley and its late-summer golden sunlight, didn’t we? We were cursed, apparently, for breaking the first rule of journalism: that is, never write about the weather, you boring bugger.
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a ground jury on a Thursday morning must be in want of a few marks – must, surely, be stiff and ungenerous, lending a natural benefit to those riders
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Liz Halliday (@lizhallidayeventing) Yesterday’s update from Liz Halliday’s team provides some positive information as the medical team plans to take her off of the ventilator that’s
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The final dressage test at the final ever Defender Blair Castle International Horse Trials is done and dusted and the very last competitor to head down the centreline was none other than Olympic Gold medallist
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I’ve been home from the Paris Olympics for just over a week now, and I’ll admit that that week has felt a bit like I’ve been sleepwalking. But now, with the dust settling and the
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