Photo by Samantha from Rolex ’11 Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville have just jumped provisionally clear and 7 seconds under the optimum time around the Burghley cross-country course to maintain their overnight Burghley lead
...» Read More!Ruth Edge maintained her lead for the rest of the first day of dressage here at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials by a slender margin over Jock Paget and Clifton Lush. Ruth told us
...» Read More!Ruth Edge moved into the lead of the 2012 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials as of lunchtime on Thursday with a very correct, accurate test on the 10 year old Welton Ambassador gelding Rogersdale who’s
...» Read More!From Meg: Over the last 2 years, I have worked closely with Sinead preparing for this year. Every single event with Tate grew increasingly more stressful and important. All of this buildup led us high
...» Read More!A job well done for Kristen Bond with Are You Ready Two advanced divisions followed Becky’s winning CIC3* performance on Sunday afternoon at Richland. It’s hard to pick who had the most dominant performance between
...» Read More!Courageous Comet looked super this morning – we will miss him, Becky, but he passed the trot-up with flying colours, as did his stablemate, Teddy, or Cant Fire Me. Both horses were gleaming white and
...» Read More!Boyd Martin was kind enough to speak with me Saturday afternoon at Richland as the advanced pairs galloped around us. I don’t always agree with Boyd, but I couldn’t have agreed more with him today
...» Read More!The Hanni Badger Two advanced divisions with 16 riders each followed the CIC3* division at Richland on Saturday afternoon. Compared to the CIC3*, Ian Stark designed the advanced course with different and easier routes in
...» Read More!Becky and Can’t Fire Me rocking the second water Very few riders have had a better 2012 season at the advanced level than Becky Holder and that trend continued today at Richland with Becky predictably
...» Read More!From London to Kalamazoo, Olympian Boyd Martin galloped around the CIC2* on Crackerjack Eventing is fully underway here in west Michigan and I couldn’t be happier that they let me outside to be at an
...» Read More!Two weeks from today will be CROSS COUNTRY DAY of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI****. Seriously folks, get excited. First off, Burghley this year is a big deal, because not only is it
...» Read More!Ronald Zabala-Goetschel is an Ecuadorian businessman turned four-star event rider who keeps his upper-level horses at Phillip Dutton’s True Prospect Farm in West Grove, Pa. He also dabbles in cloning horses and designing saddles. I
...» Read More!Howdy Eventing Nation! I come to you with a recap from one of my favorite events in the country. Otter Creek is always a good time and last weekend was no exception! Mark, Lena,
...» Read More!Michigan’s Cobble Stone Farms Horse Trials (July 27-29) is quickly emerging as one of Area VIII’s nicest events. This year the event hosted a Jump for the Cure fundraiser. Theresa Foote was kind enough to
...» Read More!“No big deal, we just had the best two years in the history of eventing.” Eventing is supposed to be a sport of ups and downs. Horses go lame at inopportune times, spook and tense
...» Read More!Michael Jung and Sam won the individual gold at the London 2012 Olympics after jumping two double-clear show jumping rounds today at Greenwich Park. Their double-clear in the individual round put all the pressure on
...» Read More![Live Blog Archived] Welcome to the exciting conclusion of the 2012 London Olympic Games! Today is a day that most of us will look back on and say “I remember where I was when I
...» Read More!The Greenwich show jumping course proved influential in the team jumping round from the first rides of the day to the last, causing rails, time penalties, and refusals. In general, the horses looked a little
...» Read More!Michael Jung and 2010 World Equestrian Games champion Sam jumped a double-clear to secure gold for Germany. Full recap coming soon and the individual round of jumping starts at 9:30am. Go Germany.
...» Read More!Hawley’s connections have confirmed via Facebook that Hawley is in stable condition and will remain in the hospital overnight for observation. Hawley fell at the third fence on the Olympic cross-country while riding for Team
...» Read More!Ingrid Klimke and Butts Abraxxas are tied for the lead, photo via Kit Houghton/FEI Course designer Sue Benson’s Olympic cross-country course lived up to every prediction that it would shake up the Olympic leader board
...» Read More!Well, we’ll never be accused of being a boring sport, thats for darn sure. Today was full of slip-ups, pop-outs, mis-haps and elbow flapping (to varying degrees of effectiveness). The course was deemed “easy for the
...» Read More!Welcome to our Olympics Monday cross-country open thread, presented by SmartPak! Reader beware, all scores are provisional, please forgive the typos, and please understand this is written in real time. [Individual XC Results] 1:08pm
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