We reported yesterday that Andrew Nicholson suffered a neck injury after falling from Cillnabradden Evo at the final fence on cross country at the Festival of British Eventing on Saturday. Andrew had been transferred to
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The USEF has just named Colleen Rutledge and Covert Rights as additional members of the U.S. Nations Cup team that will be competing in the CICO3* at Aachen this week. This announcement comes on the
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We’ve got a lot of jingles to send out today! Courtney Cooper posted an update on her Facebook page this morning announcing that she has undergone surgery for a broken leg sustained during a schooling
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We reported yesterday that Andrew Nicholson suffered a hard fall on his first ride, Cillnabradden Evo, in the Open CIC3* Championships at Gatcombe, and he subsequently withdrew his second ride, Perfect Stranger. Today, Horse &
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Polly Gilbert sent us the above photo of Erin Renfroe’s horse De Cordova, or Andy, getting some beauty sleep while his “employees” set his studs for his upcoming Intermediate cross country run at GMHA. It’s
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I must admit, I had one of those “You know you’re a horse person when…” moments yesterday. I heard back from the mechanic about my car and just about choked when I heard what it
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We all know the frustration of seeing your horse shuffle in from turn-out missing a shoe the morning of a show. Your brain kicks in to overdrive processing things, attempting to rationalize and explain away what you
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The U.S. eventing community lost a legend this week, as Kerry Millikin’s 1996 Olympic partner Out and About, one of the greatest Thoroughbred event horses of our time, was humanely euthanized Wednesday at 28 years old due
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Holy bananas, you guys. Yesterday I saw on the Facebook group “OTTB Connect” that some guy was cleaning out his late uncle’s estate and found Secretariat’s training bridle packed away in some box. He remembers that
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It’s an emotional day for USEF Eventing 25 rider Zach Brandt as he says goodbye to Cavallino Cocktail, his three-star partner of five years. As so many young professionals must do when getting started in this sport,
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We just keep getting emailed amazing photos this week! This little gem was captured by eventer Michelle Weeks’ boyfriend while he was practicing with a new lens on cross country. During his photo shoot at
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It’s no small undertaking to start a new USEA recognized event from the ground up. Putting together the details for Area II’s newest USEA recognized event, Hunt Club Farms, has been a labor of love
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We’re just one week away from the horse inspection at Aachen CICO3* in Germany, and this year’s competition will be made all the more exciting by the fact that the U.S. has fielded a team
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The best part of this photo is, it was taken 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts on the beautiful island of Nantucket. It is an often occurrence that views like this are found while out for
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Hot off the presses! The USEF just named the horses and riders that will ride on the U.S. Nations Cup team at Aachen CICO3* next week. The U.S. was ultimately invited to send a team of three combinations, and
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While many of us had visions of cross country schooling and perfect grid work dancing in our heads this weekend, four-star event rider and world #2 ranked endurance rider Hilda Donahue was climbing mountains (quite
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River Glen Horse Trials is a popular Area III event located just northeast of Knoxville, Tennessee. The early August horse trials is a good starting point for the fall season, and the dynamic terrain on
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There’s something about a gorgeous expanse of green dotted with barns that just makes my heart sing. Of course, out here in California we are mostly yellow and have been for some time, but a
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Last night was loads of fun. Team Dragonfire and friends gathered at Melissa Votaw’s house for the Bada-Bing-Bada-Blenheim fundraiser. It truly was a wonderful event. It was nice to catch up with everyone after they
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I was so relieved to see yesterday that Dromolin, owned by Amy and Hailey Kates, was found in Millbrook after escaping from his stall and being lost in the wilderness for almost 24 hours. I
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I’m a little bit in agony that I’m not at Millbrook this year, as it’s definitely one of my favorite events. From my house it is about 8 and a half hours, which makes it
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We got a preview of the Burghley entries today, and while the entries don’t close until Friday we still have a good picture of who will be contesting what is widely known as the biggest,
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View image | gettyimages.com Tamarillo, William Fox-Pitt’s legendary eventing partner, was humanely euthanized today at age 23 according to a statement posted on the Fox-Pitt Eventing website. “Age had simply caught up” with the Anglo-Arabian
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