The final horse inspection at Blenheim was moved up to 7:30 am Sunday morning which I was unaware of until I arrived this morning, luckily fairly early, but not quite early enough to catch Liz
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It’s here! The much anticipated preview video of Mike Etherington-Smith’s CIC3* cross country course is now available for viewing. Filmed by drone pilots Alec Thayer and Jamie Rees and with commentary from Doug Payne, click
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At the mid-morning break in the second day at Blenheim Palace Pippa Funnell has moved into second place in the CCI3* division on Jane Toliver’s Billy The Biz, a horse bred by Pippa and her
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The first 10 horses in the Advanced division did their dressage late yesterday afternoon here at Plantation Field International Horse Trials, and the remaining six went early this morning, with Buck Davidson and Wiley Post
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Veronica went to work in the Blenheim Palace main arena this afternoon, turning in a lovely test which I was surprised didn’t score better. Her mark of 46.2 currently has her sitting in equal 9th
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Liz Halliday-Sharp and her mother’s Fernhill By Night have always been pretty solid in the little white box, but this year they’ve improved even more, finishing 2nd at the Hartpury International and winning the Brightling
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Once again designed by Eric Winter and beautifully built and presented by David Evans and his crew, this year’s Blenheim International CCI3* course asks plenty of questions, and that coupled with an enormous field stacked
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Lauren Kieffer and Landmarks Monte Carlo got the U.S. off to a good start at the Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials on Thursday morning; second to go under sunny skies, gasp, in the CIC3* on
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A short while ago, I introduced you to KER Clockit Sport, which is a heart rate monitor for horses combined with a revolutionary app and website, both of which are designed to give us all
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The morning session of show-jumping has just wrapped up, the top 25 will jump this afternoon starting at 2:05pm GB time, and with the German team in an almost unassailable lead (they’d need to have
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With top notch dressage trainers as parents and super form in her recent history (Aachen, Bramham) we all expected great things, but sailing into a commanding lead at the European Championships at her Senior Debut
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Kitty King’s Persimmon is a horse who can go either way in the dressage and looking incredibly fit in himself, and not knowing how to deal in the First Horse Inspection it was anyone’s guess
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Of the 71 horses presented at the Longines Blair Castle FEI European Championships this afternoon, only one was not accepted by the Ground Jury, and all fifteen nations will still be represented. The Ground Jury,
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Matt and Cecily Brown have experienced just about every high and low of eventing in the past few weeks. After receiving the good news in July that Matt had been awarded two competition grants to make his overseas
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Red on white, white on left, insanity in the middle… that’s the Eventing Nation way. But it takes an extra-special sort of crazy to get the job done in style. For our Richland edition of
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Yesterday’s Richland Park CIC3* leaders stayed strapped in tight for today’s show jumping competition. The lovesong of Buck Davidson and Ballynoe Castle RM continued with a double-clear round. Buck/Carlevo and Emily Beshear/Shame on the Moon
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Four-star event rider Hilda Donahue began participating in endurance rides in 2014. She has since made her way through the FEI rankings and is currently ranked first on the Open Combination World Endurance Ranking with
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Whether it’s sailing over cross-country jumps at Bromont or drunkenly smashing into them at Luhmühlen, you never know what’s going to happen next when you lead an opinionated stuffed animal into the start box. Such
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Cooley Cross Border is like a little kid we’ve been watching grow up over the years. Eventing Nation has been following his career since… “Forever!” Kim laughs. “I’ve been very, very slow with him.” Kim
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Intimidated by the thought of taking a jumping clinic taught by a famous international competitor or, say, Olympic medalist? Don’t be! U.S. Chef d’Equipe of Eventing David O’Connor is a world famous eventer and Olympic
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Twenty-four horses will start the Advanced division at Richland Park this weekend, meaning we have a whopping 72 horses total starting between the Advanced and CIC3* levels at this event! The Advanced field has a large
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Richland Park Horse Trials started off on the right foot today with 22 of 22 horses passing the CCI2* jog. Both the CCI2* and CIC1* are new additions for the 2015 event, which also features
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Burghley has released the preview video for this year’s cross country course! Click to watch Capt. Mark Phillips explain his thought process for each fence on this year’s track, which will run in the reverse direction for
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