We come to Bromont each year well aware of the fact that this event is, as it should be, anything other than a dressage competition (if I had a dime for every time we wrote
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Someone grab the tea, it’s time to find the nearest harbor. It’s the USA vs the Brits at the end of day two at the MARS Equestrian Bromont CCI4*-L. American rider Shannon Lilley & Eindhoven
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With half of the headlining CCI4*-L division completing their dressage tests on Thursday at MARS Bromont CCI, the early leader has emerged in Shannon Lilley and her own Eindhoven Garrette (Iowa 960 – Rose Rouge
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Welcome to The Debrief, where we’ll recap the experience of a rider or equestrian following a big result or otherwise memorable competition or achievement. Click here to read more editions of The Debrief. At the
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In 75 years of Badminton, we’ve seen some extraordinary things: we’ve seen five-year-old champions (our debutant winner, Golden Willow, in 1949); high-flying kids (Richard Walker, who won in 1969 at the age of eighteen aboard
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It’s been a golden day of cross-country at the MARS Badminton Horse Trials, and not just because the sun shone merrily all day, steadily working the ground back to something like decent going – it’s also,
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Please Note: Refresh this page often for the latest updates. Here we go ENers. It’s cross country day and… the weather’s holding up. All hail the British weather for Badminton weekend. Although, we may be
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As we predicted in the lunch break report, this morning’s new leaders, 2023 Pau champions Ros Canter and Izilot DHI will be the leaders of the pack as we head into tomorrow’s cross-country – but our compact afternoon double
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If there’s any lorry we’d like to be invited to this evening, it’s Bubby Upton‘s – relentless course-walking notwithstanding, of course. Earlier, we reported on her spectacular comeback from a horrific injury last year, from
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Somewhere buried in my Facebook photos reside some exceptionally poor Sony CoolPix photos from my various trips to what we then called Rolex Kentucky. When I think back to those years and teenaged me, one
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It’s time to play Who Jumped It Best? as we continue to look back at the 2024 Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event! This series of shots comes from the newly-added Walnut Mound question on the CCI5*
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We always look forward to seeing what Derek di Grazia has brought from his brain to the hallowed grounds of Kentucky Horse Park each spring for the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event. This year is no
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Welcome to the weekend ENers, and not just any old weekend – officially The Best Weekend All Year. It’s cross country day at Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event and we’re bringing you not one but two
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We had to wait until the final group of the field to see World Champion Yasmin Ingham’s early lead shaken on Friday at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI5*, presented by MARS Equestrian, and it
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What a day of dressage we had yesterday! The sun was shining on Kentucky and our stars of the show stepped up to the plate. Here’s our top three as things stand: 1️⃣ In pole
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We’re always pleased to welcome a healthy contingent of international entries here to the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by MARS Equestrian, but the risk we run is that they’ll run the gamut on the
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Why wait for the actual weekend to kick off #TheBestWeekendAllYear? That’s right, we’re totally here for it, primed and ready for what’s set to be a stupendous celebration of 5* eventing from Kentucky Horse Park.
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Tilly Berendt Winner: I’m eenie-meenie-miney-mo-ing it between Tom McEwen and JL Dublin and Yas Ingham and Banzai du Loir – and I think it’s probably Tom’s year. That decisive third place finish at Pau
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Every year, I grow more and more convinced that EN only buses me out to five-stars for one reason: to lose friends and do whatever the opposite of influencing people is. But boy, oh boy,
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Sunny skies and perfect temperatures greeted us this afternoon at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by MARS Equestrian as the 36-combination field prepared to trot up for the Ground Jury for the First Horse
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Bring on that beautiful chaos, because it is finally time to sit back and read up on the horses and riders of the 2024 Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event! I’m sure, like us, many of you
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We’re very sad to share the news that Tamie Smith and hot favorite Mai Baum, 2023 CCI5* winners at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event, will not be contesting this week’s CCI4*-S competition as planned, following
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Speak to any rider who’s put in an entry for a five-star, and they’ll all sing you some variation of the same song: “I’m not even worrying about the cross-country right now – all I’m worrying
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