I don’t know about everywhere else, but the weather here in NC has finally hit spring.  The grass is bright green, the sun is out, the horses are covered in mud.  Yup, must be

It’s hard to believe that two weeks from now we’ll be kicking off Day 2 of dressage at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. The EN team is hard at work preparing to bring you top-notch

Hello it’s Thursday, Eventing Nation. This one marks a good long time since I’ve spent a Thursday at home, and I’m pretty excited about it. After running the Advanced at The Fork, I returned to

If you haven’t been following Jenni and Samantha’s excellent event coverage from the Fork you might have missed that we have entered the final countdown stage to Rolex. Just two weeks from today the first

Good morning, readers! We’re heading into the second full week of April, which means that your barn is probably covered in shedding horses’ hair, and you’re getting a better idea what your competition schedule and

I have been keeping up with The Fork results, thanks to our great crew reporting.  We are still getting Bug sorted out, and I am recovering from a horrible bout of food poisoning.  Ugh.  I

By now you know that it rained all day yesterday at The Fork. Samantha Clark said it wasn’t quite as miserable as Southern Pines earlier this year, but yesterday came in a close second. Hats

Good morning EN! Today things are officially kicking off down in Norwood, NC at the beautiful Fork Stables. This weekend is one of the last big runs before Rolex and the CIC3* is full of

Hawley Bennett-Awad and Gin & Juice put in a double clear cross-country round yesterday to win the Galway Downs CIC3*, which is their third CIC3* win this month. The pair also won the CIC3* at

Happy Easter weekend, Eventing Nation!  I hope everyone is enjoying their families this weekend, both human and equine (and canine and feline too!).  I am in PA for a clinic, so I get the pleasure

Entries for the Rolex Kentucky CCI4* are still rolling in — so quickly that I couldn’t keep up with the additions yesterday in my update posts. Twelve entries were added to the official entry list on

The entry deadline for Rolex has officially passed, leaving us with 42 fantastic horse-and-rider combinations who will tackle North America’s premier event. With 2013 being a non-championship or Olympic year, entries were expected to be

  The USEF and USEA have announced a new Eventing 18/Advancing Athletes program beginning this year.  The goal of this program is to build a foundation of future horsemen and women that will hopefully go

Good morning, EN readers! It truly feels like the event season is on the cusp of hitting its stride (no pun intended), and reading reports from Southern Pines, Poplar Place, and Fountainbleu on the continent

Southern Pines II HT  Will Faudree led from start to finish in the Advanced at Southern Pines, and Andromaque jumped a double clear round today in show jumping to easily earn the win over her

Rebecca Howard and Riddle Master at Jersey last year.  Photo by Abby Gibbon.   This weekend is the Fontainebleau CIC3* in France, kicking of the FEI Nations Cup series.  As Kate mentioned this morning in

Happy Thursday, Eventing Nation! Right as you’re reading this, I’m probably all stuffed into my truck with two horses in tow for Southern Pines Horse Trials! I’m excited, as the Carolina Horse Park is always

  After much outcry that Blyth Tait would find himself on the new FEI uncategorized rider list, the FEI has backpedaled and re-written their rules in sanskrit to be more fair to riders across the

Horse Nation’s illustrious illustrator Morgane Schmidt busted this one out last week… ah-mazing! Look for a brand new comic from Morgane each Wednesday on Horse Nation, and you can view her entire collection on website

Happy Thursday, Eventing Nation! I have finally returned from my two month sojourn down south, culminating in my first experience at Red Hills Horse Trials as a competitor, and then the long 14 hour drive

New Zealand is joining the list of countries upset by the new FEI qualification rules. Horse & Hound reported that Olympian and former world champion Blyth Tait has been downgraded to BE100 (equivalent to US