What a welcome to the final CCI5* of the year: yesterday, we took our first turn around the course in high-70s sunshine, and today, we’ve gone back to bed because the wind is so wild
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Let’s do it one more time! This week the curtain rises on our final CCI5* of a whirlwind 2025 season. This time, we’ll be heading to the south of France (and, apparently, the rainy weather
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The world’s most promising young Eventing horses gathered in France for the 40th anniversary of the FEI WBFSH Eventing World Breeding Championships for Young Horses, hosted at the Mondial du Lion, Le Lion d’Angers this
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Just over three years ago, Felix Vogg (SUI) cantered into the main arena at Luhmühlen’s CCI5* aboard his veteran Olympic horse, Colero. It had been over 70 years since a Swiss rider had last won
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We’ve been treated to yet another drama-free trot up here at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, and while we did have two eliminations in the CCI3* (Dana Cooke with FE Damaskus and Zach Brandt with
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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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This year at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, we’re looking at a field that is arguably one of the highest-quality lineups we’ve seen in this event’s young history. Celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, the
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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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It’s time to open the curtain on the 5th anniversary of our youngest CCI5* event, the MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, presented by Brown Advisory! As we look to the start of 5*
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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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Morven Park has garnered a serious reputation as one of, if not the, toughest tracks in the U.S. (and right up there with its European counterparts), and this year designer-in-residence Derek di Grazia has upped
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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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