Wednesday Schooling at Rebecca Farm
It’s Wednesday at Rebecca Farm and that means schooling. The 1* horses do dressage on Thursday, meaning this s the final day to put the finishing touches on their flatwork. The 2* and 3* horses
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Arriving in Montana
After 2,000 miles, one fuel stop, and a bag of peanuts, the 19 horses headed to Rebecca Farm from the east coast have safely arrived at Rebecca Farm. Thanks to Hawley Bennett and Max Corcoran
...» Read More!The Top 10 Reasons to Come to Fitch’s Corner HT July 22-24
Submitted by Fitch’s Corner Horse Trials’ host Fernanda Kellogg: 10 – Sponsors – Houlian Lawrence Real Estate, Barbara and Donald Tober, Sweet’ N Low, Mercedes-Benz of Wappinger’s Falls, Montblanc, Tiffany & Co, Midler Family Foundation, Morgan
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Pronouced “rup-keys” Well hey there Eventing Nation! I am in a good mood! I don’t know if it’s because I got to spend the weekend with the lovely Jill Gill, it’s summertime, I’m finally tan,
...» Read More!Flying to Montana
“Please turn off all cell phones and electronic devices and make sure your tray tables are in an upright position.” There aren’t many events that are nice enough to make horses fly 2,000 miles to
...» Read More!Roebke’s Run Horse Trials XC Courses Jump by Jump
Update: Apologies for a few technical difficulties with the photos in this post Tuesday morning. Hopefully they are sorted out now and if they still are not showing up well for you, please refresh your
...» Read More!Leyland’s Smorgasbord Sunday Eventing Notes
Photo courtesy of Stephanie Bradley-Green –Stephen Bradley and his new ride Leyland finished on their dressage score to win their preliminary division at the Maryland Horse Trials on Sunday. Stephen posted on his Facebook page
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I was thinking about making this intro about the British Open, or maybe the Tour de France, or possibly how the Chinchillas managed to commandeer my Tahoe and drive to McDonalds, but after looking at
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Doggy high tea at Stuart, photo by Jerry James One of the many privileges about writing for Eventing Nation is that I get to visit events that I never have been able to attend as
...» Read More!Michael Jung wins in Aachen, GBR takes team gold
Team GBR, led by William Fox-Pitt and Mary King won the team competition while Michael Jung and La Biosthetique Sam took home the individual title at the Aachen CICO3* World Equestrian Festival. Sound familiar? The
...» Read More!Great Britain Leads at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen
The Australian team of Sam Griffiths, Clayton Fredericks, Lucinda Fredericks, and Chris Burton took the lead after the CIC3* dressage in Aachen Friday morning. But Team Great Britain charged from 4th after the dressage to
...» Read More!12 North American Pairs Already Entered at Burghley
This autumn is shaping up to be very busy travel time for the US and Canadian high performance programs. With no autumn four-stars in North America, a strong desire by many riders to prove their
...» Read More!Quinn Himself’s First Victory
Hopefully everyone is staying well hydrated an reasonably cool around Eventing Nation on one of the hottest riding days of the year so far. After hearing some incredible party stories from the EN chinchillas and
...» Read More!Roebke’s Run Inaugural Horse Trial
Roebke’s Run HT is a brand new horse trial held in the Midwest this year. Their inaugural horse trial will be held at the beautiful Schweiss Stables in Hector, MN on July 16-17. Thank you
...» Read More!Pippa Funnell and Billy Landretti win Barbury for Great Britain
Pippa accepting her trophy As expected, the cross-country time was tough to make at Barbury and a few seconds were very influential in the top three results. The leader after the show jumping, Laura Collett,
...» Read More!Will and Andromaque perfect, others having troubles at Barbury
#17C and #17B have been removed from the course The course at Barbury is riding uncharacteristically difficult this afternoon. We are about one hour behind schedule because of multiple holds on course. Most recently, Tom
...» Read More!Laura Collett Maintains the Barbury Lead
The last three show jumpers at Barbury, William rode out of order With the cross-country scheduled for Sunday afternoon, the Barbury CIC3* competition is very much wide open with the leader board getting tighter in
...» Read More!Morning Show Jumping Rounds at Barbury
We’re half-way through the show jumping at Barbury with XC still to come The Barbury show jumping course feels like a derby because it incorporates terrain in the grass main arena. The footing is causing
...» Read More!The Barbury CIC3* XC Course
The good news is that the Barbury CIC3* is my favorite Mark Phillips course that I have ever seen. The bad news is that the area and shape of available land creates some tight turns
...» Read More!Great Britain Takes Control of the Barbury CIC3*
William took Cool Mountain for a nice canter up the hill after their pre-dressage ride Great Britain seized control of Barbury in the third and final day of Barbury dressage on Saturday. 6 British riders
...» Read More!Ringwood Magister gets back on track at Barbury
As the CIC3* wraps up their dressage today at Barbury (more on that shortly), the CIC2* divisions are completing their show jumping and cross-country. When Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister were circling the start box
...» Read More!Will Coleman and Twizzel make a statement at Barbury
Will and Twizzel Will Coleman and Twizzel of the USA took the lead in the Barbury CIC3* on Friday afternoon, half-way through the nearly 120 3* dressage rides. The cool thing is that Will’s test
...» Read More!Greenwich Park
The Greenwich arena is raised above the ground to protect the park From the very beginning, Greenwhich Park has been a controversial site to host the equestrian events for the London Olympics, but I held
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