With the American Eventing Championships and Defender Burghley Horse Trials running at the same time this week, I have eventing whiplash! What a treat to have Sally Spickard at the Kentucky Horse Park and Tilly
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Today’s Defender Burghley dressage tests begin at 9.45 a.m. again (4.45 a.m. EST) with British partnership Richard Skelt and Credo first in the ring. Our first North American pair will be Will Faudree and Mama’s Magic Way, at 10.33 a.m. local/5.33 a.m.
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Burghley has always been my favorite five-star, mostly because when I was a child playing Mary King’s Riding Star (IYKYK), it was the scariest course. It’s also probably the scariest set of jumps to walk
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@lrbht_official) Brace yourselves eventing fans because Burghley starts TODAY! With top-class entries from 11 different nations, including equine and human Olympic gold
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@lrbht_official) The last time I went to Burghley was just earlier this month, when I got to see the course
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At Scotland’s Blair Castle International, top-level sport wasn’t the only thing on the agenda (actually, very far from it – you should see how many rings and competitions they’ve got on the go up there!). Beyond
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@lrbht_official) It’s Burghley Week! AEC in T-minus two days! Double-competition weeks are a fast-paced thrill for us behind the screens here at
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vittoria Panizzon (@panizzonvittoria) Travels with horses can often be exciting and take us to some awe-inspiring destinations, but all too often the process getting to the
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I’m so so excited about the making of the documentary The Grey, all about Kim Walnes and her incredible partnership with a beautiful grey horse, not only because my bestie Skyeler (!!!) has been chosen
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Y’all better take this weekend to rest and relax, reinvigorate your brain cells, and get your stats in order, because next week is pure insanity, even by our standards. Burghley? American Eventing Championships? Yeah, why
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Piggy March (@piggy.march) Having your birthday at an event can go one of two ways really, eventing being the rollercoaster ride that it is. For Kitty
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Welp, somehow we’re here again: kind of, inexplicably, nearing the tail end of the season, and with it, looking ahead to the events that fill its final month. I’m basically having a full-blown existential crisis
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jérôme Robiné (@jerome_robine) One of the most exciting parts of a championship is the newer faces and names that work their way through to
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ride iQ | Equestrian Audio Lessons App (@rideiqofficial) I’m currently in the beginning of a month-long endeavor where my horse is going to be getting a
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This past work week was an arduous one for me, but as I drove to the barn yesterday evening to slog away at my horse’s rehab I was greeted with an incredible rainbow after a
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Faye Füllgraebe (@faye4.4.21) Welcome to the world, sweet Mara Jung, and congratulations to mum Faye, dad Michael, and big brother Leo — now, with a
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This summer has really tested my hoof management experience and skill, I tell you what. With weekly rains (which is unheard of in Virginia summer), unprecedented grass growth, and a barn full of horses that
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kitty King (@kittykingeventing) I’ve loved looking through the social media posts following the European Championships last weekend. From the tributes to horses, grooms and owners, to
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ros Canter (@ros_canter_eventing) It didn’t take our newest European Champion (and our most recent Badminton winner) to settle right into his well-deserved vacation. We certainly haven’t
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lisa Barry (@lisab__equestrian) I’ve been keeping up to speed with the global travels of one very cute gray 5* horse with very cute and large ears,
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sara Algotsson Ostholt (@saraalgotsson) I think Team Sweden has a good idea going here, and I would like to propose that we appropriate more on-course team
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Look, look — The sun is shinning in Vermont! GMHA’s Festival Schooling Weekend, a replacement for the flood-canceled Festival of Eventing recognized horse trials, is officially underway. The Ashuelot Pony Club helped out by jump
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Last year, one of my oldest friends lost her heart horse of many years to a sudden and very unexpected colic. Huey was truly a unicorn; he was the kindest horse alive, the most genuine hard-worker,
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