Sorry, just a little fan-girling over my horse, the professional model. I swear, you pull out a camera, and he KNOWS. He holds really still, perks his ears up, and does the faraway gaze for
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Vandiver is en route to Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials. Between the CCI3* and CIC3* divisions, Blenheim now offers a huge sum of most prize money with a £50,000 purse
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When I showed up to volunteer at the Oregon Horse Center’s DX Eventing competition last month and saw the course that was no more than a twinkle in organizers’ eyes prior to June, I was
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The latest FEI World Eventing Athlete Rankings have been released, and while Michael Jung remains World No. 1, the leaderboard has seen significant shuffling within the top 25. Nicola Wilson vaulted to a career high of
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Bob and Kay Willmarth announced this morning that Michigan’s Richland Park Horse Trials will no longer run after 17 years of faithfully serving Area VIII and beyond.
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There’s no rest for the weary and with the American Eventing Championships and Burghley behind us, it’s time for the West Coast to take a turn in the limelight. Things heat up as both Copper
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This was one of the best examples of “getting it done” from this past weekend at Burghley. The terrain made this huge corner at the Dairy Mound even trickier, and when things weren’t looking perfect for
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Recently I wrote about how eventers can give back to the world outside of our own equestrian family. In the days since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas eventers have wasted not time in showing their
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Jr. Beginner Novice 14 & Under Division Champion or puppy dog!? Rider Ashley Stout isn’t sure when it comes to her sweet 4-legged partner Deo Volente! Congratulations to all AEC Champions this week! That’s a
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Oliver Townend woke up this morning with the knowledge that he had jumped only one clear show jumping round in his last 15 runs at CCI4* level. Or maybe he didn’t realize that, but without a rail in
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Cross country day at Burghley certainly lived up to the hype! There were surprise endings, fantastic finishes and a few hearts broken. I am insanely proud of our U.S. riders with Lynn and Boyd in
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It would be amiss to say that the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials ages like a fine wine – rather, it ages sort of like a bottle of black-market tequila that your best mate tries to
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Good morning from Stamford, England! It’s a beautiful day for cross country at the biggest horse trials in the world. I’ll be running live updates from the media center at the venue, with Tilly Berendt in
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Did you know that one of the many jobs of a super groom is to check the spread of fences? Here, Mike Pendleton, super groom for Boyd Martin, helps us put the width of this
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This week, in the space of three days, I added a furry member to my team, and spent 22 hours driving out of 72 hours of being alive, which is just not a good ratio.
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With the AECs and Burghley all wrapped up into one weekend, I can barely contain myself. I’m cheering for people far and wide, and watching all the amazing photos and videos (ahem, DONNER “trotting” at
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Embed from Getty Images Texas is reeling from Hurricane Harvey, with record floodwaters in Houston displacing 30,000 people from their homes since the Category 4 storm made landfall on Friday. The death toll rose to five
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It was a big weekend for eventing! While the FEI divisions at Richland Park, Blair Castle and Millstreet took the features spotlight, there were also a great lineup of local events across the country. Loudoun
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Whew! What a weekend it’s been, with Richland Park, Millstreet, and Blair Castle running plus a gaggle of horse trials around the country. But don’t blink, the USEA American Eventing Championships and the Burghley CCI4*
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Just days old, Charlotte Coleman looks perfectly at home in a barn. While it must be nice for Will to win the CIC2* at Richland Park, we assume it will be much nicer when he
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While there’s much eventing fun to be had across Eventing Nation this weekend, our thoughts are also with the Texans in the path of Hurricane Harvey, which has made landfall overnight. We hope that humans
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Some riders get all stressed out by dressage, but Joe Meyer knows the answer to that problem is a portable smoker near your stables to fulfill all your smoked meat needs. Eventers know how to
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Andrew McConnon has spent the past 18 months in England, leaving behind his business in Southern Pines, North Carolina to study under some of the best riders in the world. Basing with William Fox-Pitt in Dorset,
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