This year’s 50th anniversary Burghley was special for so many reasons: I may have said at some point that I thought it belonged to Boyd Martin and his miraculous mount Neville Bardos for their fairytale

Plantation Field Horse Trials in Pennsylvania starts tomorrow!  Our good friends at Plantation Field were kind enough to put together a list of the top 10 reasons to head out and visit Plantation Field.  The

This summer featured many of North America’s best pairs traveling to England for Burghley and Blenheim. Many of them stayed with the amazing Jacky Green at her Maizey Manor Farm. The great stories continue even

Carl Bourckaert’s magnificent main barn One of the hardest things to convey from this weekend is the size and beauty of Chattahoochee Hills.  From the premanent stabling to the cross-country course, to the trade fair,

Piggy French is smiling after winning the Blenheim CCI3* I can’t believe my two weeks in the UK are over. It has been fun,exciting and incredibly busy. I have been to two very different Horse

Boys being boys. Aussie Olympian and all round larrikin, Shane Rose, ends up with mud on his face after deciding it would be a good idea to climb the fence and jump into the arena

Liz Messaglia and Apollo Star won the novice amateur division The Marc Donovan designed show jumping courses have been very influential all weekend and the novice divisions were no exception on Sunday.  None of the

Sandra Holden and Cano Cristales won the beginner novice amateur division Sandra Holden and Cano Cristales brought home the beginner novice amateur championship for her home state New York on this September 11th.  Sandra led

The Blenheim show jumping has just concluded.  Here is a quick video interview with Piggy after her round from ESJ.  ESJ will be around with a full report from Sunday at Blenheim shortly and until

The crowd paused for a minute silence, paid there respects to the American team present and took a moment to remember the lives lost 10 years ago. It was a somber moment. The US flag

I had to do a collage of the awesome tail of Tiana Coudray’s mount Ringwood Magister There are two events happening at Blenheim this weekend and until this moment I have ignored the second one.

Lauren Yallop of Great Britain and her own One More Step The trot up (jog) was uneventful this morning with all horses from the National teams of Japan, Australia and New Zealand all passed without

One of the things I am enjoying most about the four day schedule of the AECs is that we have a chance to watch every level and probably at least one phase for every rider. 

Blue Stocking likes the trophy In an exciting afternoon of show jumping, for two of the three training divisions at the AECs, the cross-country leaders held on for the victory.  Anna Kjellstrom and Blue Stocking

Barbara Crabo and Eveready Barbara Crabo and Eveready were sitting in third after the cross-country and jumped a beautiful double-clear show jumping round to put pressure on the top two.  Emily Beshear and Here’s To

Piggy French and DHI Topper W Piggy French came in clear and under time on both her mounts to move up to first and second place more than a rail clear of Pippa Funnel in

An Aussie has won the American Eventing Championships intermediate division and she did it in convincing fashion.   Kadi Eykamp, who currently lives in Dallas, Texas, and the Canadian warmblood Double Rivers Really Cool never

JP Sheffield on DHI Hindle clearing 190cm to win the Puissance Class at Blenheim, topless Austin O’Connor missing the 190cm, he came second in the class Paul ‘Tappers’ Tapner losing his shirt Laura Collett and

And as promised yesterday, a picture the iconic jump that graces the entry to Syndey International Equestrian Centre. Here is the latest update from down under by Caz. I think there must have been plenty

Heather Morris and Master P win the preliminary horse championship Heather Morris and Master P took the win for Texas in the USEA’s preliminary horse championship.  They moved up from second by finishing the weekend

Yoshi Oiwa and Gorgeous George This morning we kicked off the CCI3* cross country with Australia, New Zealand and Japan in the Olympic qualifying round. Australia and Japan are fighting it out for the single

Megan Johnston and Rapport lead the training junior/young rider championship This afternoon is a whirlwind of eventing fun at the AECs with five novice and beginner novice dressage arenas in action and six full divisions

The advanced cross-country course rode almost perfectly today.  Half of the 18 starters had double-clear rides, which is a very high percentage for advanced.  14 of the 18 starters had clear rides.  Two riders finished