It’s been brisk and breezy all day long but it was downright cold this morning which translated to some rather “electric” rides — a few spooks but also some rather stunning tests. Maybe I’m still
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Competition is underway at the FEI WBFSH Eventing World Breeding Championships, and after roughly half of both the 6-year-old and 7-year-old Championships the American contingent has already made their stamp. In the 6-year-old Championship, set
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Following the announcement of the coronation of King Charles the III, who will succeed the late Queen Elizabeth II, on May 6, 2023 at Buckingham Palace, Badminton Horse Trials has modified its schedule to avoid
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Breeding a quality event horse capable of winning (or placing competitively, or in some cases even finishing!) a modern five-star is a feat that requires skill, creativity, bravery, and a little bit of luck. In
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ocala Horse Properties (@ocalahorseproperties) October heralds one of the most popular European events and one of our favorites to preview the rising stars of years to
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We’re not quite through with the 2022 season! More action awaits as we now head down to Florida for The Event at TerraNova, happening October 21-23 and featuring not only a CCI4*-S eventing competition but
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Even if I attend an event in person, I always find myself queuing up the replays to watch once I get back home. No matter how much I trek around a cross country track (and
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Anyone else spending their Monday reliving the action from Maryland this weekend? I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to make it in person this year, but have been thoroughly scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, and
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Elkton, Md. – The 2022 MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill presented by Brown Advisory came to an exciting conclusion with Sunday’s show jumping phase. Combinations rode over solid tracks designed by Ken Krome
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After a Saturday that split opinions, it’s been enormously exciting to have an action-packed afternoon of influential competition at the MARS Maryland 5 Star. Though our top three would ultimately remain unchanged after cross-country, the short
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Phew. Is there anything more bum-clenchingly tense than a final horse inspection? Even here at the MARS Maryland 5 Star p/b Brown Advisory, in which horses have enjoyed exceptionally good going and looked to finish brilliantly
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As if Ian Stark didn’t have enough going on this weekend, he accepted an additional challenge on top of his course designing duties: Young Event Horse wrangler. It was the very talented young HSH Best
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Saturday’s cross-country day at the MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill presented by Brown Advisory was an excellent day of competition. Hannah Sue Hollberg and Capitol HIM held onto their lead in the USEF
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Newly-named FEI world #1 Tim Price has his pre-cross country routine down to a T — top athletes in the making, take note here: the key to success lies in a sack of McDonald’s, maybe
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THE ESSENTIALS Length: 6555m Optimum time: 11:30 Fences: 29 Speed: 570mpm “Last year, with hindsight,” I must have been insane,” laughs MARS Maryland 5 Star course designer Ian Stark, who has delivered us a new-look, considerably tougher track for
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Ian Stark’s second design here at the Maryland 5 Star has certainly upped the ante from its inaugural running in 2021. It was to be expected, for a designer doing his first 5* track on
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The weather conditions were drastically different on Friday as the 5-year-olds took to the center stage for the 2022 Dutta Corp. USEA Young Event Horse East (YEH) Coast Championships presented by Dubarry. With the sun
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The second day of dressage had lovely fall weather at the MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill presented by Brown Advisory, much different from Thursday’s rainy conditions. Hannah Sue Hollberg and Capitol HIM moved
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Yesterday’s MARS Maryland CCI5* leaders, Woods Baughman and C’est La Vie 135, had arguably the worst possible conditions to deal with for dressage, battling through driving sheets of rain that were so thick you could scarcely spot
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We’re well underway here at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, with the second batch of 5* riders yet to go this afternoon. Yesterday, we introduced you to the field of riders and now it’s time
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It was a rainy, cloudy day at Fair Hill, but that didn’t stop the action of the first day of the 2022 Dutta Corp. USEA Young Event Horse East Coast Championships presented by Dubarry. Four-
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As we checked the weather radar with trepidation this morning, watching the buckets pour outside the media center, we held hope that the forecast would be correct: the worst of today’s rain was supposed to
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As we move ahead to this afternoon’s start of 5* dressage here at MARS Maryland 5 Star, presented by Brown Advisory, we’ve dug into the numbers to introduce you to the 24-strong field competing this
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