Friday!!! FRRIIIIIDDDAAAYYY!!! For normal people, it means survival for only one more day until the weekend, and for horse people it means travel to events, or waiting until Friday night to madly pack your trailer,
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New Zealand has packed a powerful punch with the announcement of its eventing squad for the World Equestrian Games this year. Veteran campaigners and riders who are newer to the level are featured on the
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Happy Thursday, Eventing Nation! So far this week I haven’t woken up past five in the morning, which means I may or may not be a little delirious when I write things at night for
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The USEF has just released the names on the High Performance Summer and Fall Training Lists. The horses and riders listed in each section will participate in training sessions with Chef d’Equipe David O’Connor on
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Australia released its nominated entries for the World Equestrian Games squad this morning. The announcement of the final six team members is expected shortly, with the decision on the four team combinations and two individual combinations
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Good morning! I hope your hump day is going well – just a couple more days until a new weekend of competition and insanity in the middle commences. Speaking of insanity, did you hear that
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The WEG test events are underway at d’Ornano Stadium in the heart of Caen, where the show jumping phase for eventing will be held during this summer’s World Equestrian Games. The dressage test event wrapped up today, with
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Rebecca Howard and Riddle Master’s names were noticeably absent from last week’s Canadian World Equestrian Games squad announcement, and she confirmed today that Rupert unfortunately suffered a minor injury at Badminton that will keep him
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USEA President Diane Pitts has announced the formation of a cross-country safety task force that will “explore obstacle construction and course design” in order to make the sport as safe as possible. The goal of
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Karen O’Connor has made it to the final round of selection to be the newest FEI Athlete Representative for the sport of eventing. The final two applicants, Karen and Great Britain’s Daisy Berkley, will be
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We reported earlier this month that Mary King had received her second yellow card in a year for “dangerous riding,” resulting in a two-month suspension that is active until August. The second yellow card was
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One of the best things about being an eventer is that if there isn’t an event on a given weekend and you have money burning a hole in your pocket, you can always hit up
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I can’t lie. I get a kick out of being a little subversive and thumbing my nose at the establishment once in a while. I spent most of yesterday at a local Hunter/Jumper show flying
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Holger Heigel, the chairman of the Eventing Committee of the German Olympic Equestrian Committee, announced the German long list for the World Equestrian Games on his website today. No final pairs will be named until after
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Is it just me or was last week the longest week in the history of long weeks? I don’t know what caused it to stretch on so long, but man am I ever glad it’s
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Hot on the heels of the U.S. WEG squad announcement last night, Equine Canada named its squad today. Hawley Bennett-Awad posted the team on her Facebook page, and we have confirmed that the Canadian squad is: Hawley
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One of the most exciting things about Team USA’s WEG squad is the depth of the alternate list: Hannah Sue Burnett and Harbour Pilot, Jan Byyny and Inmidair, Buck Davidson and Park Trader, Phillip Dutton
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How do Kim Severson Eventing’s dogs celebrate their fearless leader being named to the 2014 Team USA WEG squad? By chillin’ in the liverPOOL. Obviously! Virginia has been experiencing the kind of heat that can
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I don’t know about you all, but my social media feeds are positively buzzing with activity after today’s announcement of the eventing squad for WEG this year. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such
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The U.S. eventing community is buzzing with excitement tonight after the WEG squad announcement. Team USA will be Buck Davidson and Ballynoe Castle RM, Phillip Dutton and Trading Aces, Sinead Halpin and Manoir de Carneville,
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The USEF has just named the U.S. eventing squad for the World Equestrian Games! The announcement reads as follows: The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named six athlete-and-horse combinations to the Squad for the Land
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Great Britain announced its World Equestrian Games squad this morning, and fans took to Twitter to lament the absence of Harry Meade and Gemma Tattersall on the team. Harry made a very strong case for
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The WEG squad announcements continued this morning with Great Britain naming its team. Great Britain will name the final four team riders after the first horse inspection at WEG, with the remaining two riders competing as
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