I’m pretty confident I got more sleep last night than the riders competing at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, but as I stared at my phone as the clock ticked toward 3 a.m. last night,
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Here we go ENers! It’s the penultimate 5* of the season and we’re Stateside for the second US top-level offering. We may not have the massive field that we see at some of the big
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We arrived at the fifth anniversary MARS Maryland 5 Star eager to get out on course as soon as humanly possible. We knew we’d be looking at something completely different: for nearly the first time
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“Hi mama!” three-year-old Gus yells as his mother, Monica Spencer, gallops up Nelson’s Hill (one of the best conditioning hills on the East coast, and probably in the country) and past her husband, Andrew’s, camera.
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It’s time to kick off the 2025 MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, presented by Brown Advisory! We’ve got a roster full of potential 5* champions on our hands this week, so as is
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There’s something so lovely about an uneventful jog (and of course we always hope it’s uneventful on Wednesday), and we were treated to just that today to open the week at the fifth-anniversary MARS Maryland
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We know that truly anything can happen in sports on any given day. Really, that’s one thing that makes sports just so incredibly great. No matter how much of a sure thing something can be,
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In the months leading up to Military Boekelo, Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier found herself sitting on the metaphorical fence. It had been her goal all year to bring the nine-year-old Kiarado d’Arville back to the
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We were treated to a relatively drama-free trot-up this morning as the CCI4*-L and CCI4*-S each presented for the Ground Jury of Peter Gray (CAN), Bea di Grazia (USA) and Helen Christine (NZL) as well
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It’s a lightning-fast update from us here at Military Boekelo this morning, where we’ve just seen over 70 horses present at the final trot-up and now we’re already just moments away from the start of
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“What can I say? They were great,” Will Coleman started off when I chatted to him at the end of cross country day at the US Equestrian Open of Eventing Final at Morven Park. It
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Scarcely an hour into the seven-hour day of cross-country at Military Boekelo, we had both a colossal plot twist and a new leader for the day. Dressage leaders Laura Collett and new ride Count Onyx
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Off the Record may be 16 years young this year, but you shouldn’t tell him that. It’s early days, of course, here at the $200,000 US Equestrian Open of Eventing Final at Morven Park, but
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We’re used to seeing European Champion Laura Collett front up at Military Boekelo with the ineffably weird Dacapo, who’s a sure thing absolutely nowhere except here, at the event where everything is on whatever odd
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We had to wait until nearly the end of day one of dressage here at the US Equestrian Open of Eventing Final taking place at Morven Park’s Fall International CCI to see a score break
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Ah, fall. The season of changing colors, pumpkin spice (if you’re into that sort of thing) and now, a very exciting addition to the U.S. eventing calendar to add to the all-out sprint to the
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It all comes down to this! We are chomping at the bit to get underway with the inaugural Final of the US Equestrian Open of Eventing, where some 30 riders will be competing for $200,000
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Fall kicked off in grand fashion at Loch Moy Farm this weekend as the USEA Area II Championships were hosted alongside the Land Rover West Columbia Maryland Horse Trials. Competitors had the benefit of lovely
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We have an entry list for this year’s MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, presented by Brown Advisory! This year, the newest CCI5* event celebrates its five-year anniversary and a strong international field is
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Just over a week ago, the 2025 Agria FEI European Eventing Championships wound down to a thrilling conclusion in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. As always, the championships served up a fascinating indicator of where
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In every generation of event horses, one or two stand out as the sort of athletes and personalities that will leave an outsized hoofprint; a legacy that lasts well beyond the years they actually spend
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We’re neither bright-eyed nor bushy-tailed on this final (early) morning of the Agria FEI European Eventing Championships, but fortunately for morale and word count, we have practically nothing at all to report from the final
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You’ll forgive us, I hope, for the time it’s taken to get this report written up: we were busy checking to see if Mercury’s in retrograde, or a full moon is coming, or if we’d
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