Congratulations to Meghan O’Donoghue who rode an accurate test on Pirate with no mistakes for a respectable score of 52.3. Meghan kept him going forwards, used her corners really well and didn’t give any marks
...» Read More!Good morning! We are getting spoiled with these event filled weekends, and this one is no different. The Fidelity Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials (whew, that’s a mouthful!) are in full swing and currently making
...» Read More!Recently, I lost one of my aunts to cancer. She had been battling it valiantly for quite awhile, but cancer is mean, and it doesn’t give up easily. It seems that when life takes a
...» Read More!Mary Buffum kindly sent us some thoughts from Mikki Kuchta and her working student Janelle Phaneuf from King Oak Horse Trials. [Results] Many thanks to Mary, Mikki, and Janelle for writing! Joan Davis of FlatlandsFoto.com
...» Read More!Clark Montgomery laid down the gauntlet Thursday at Blenheim Palace with a beautiful, accurate and flowing test to take the Day 1 dressage lead. Ever the perfectionist, he said afterwards that there were a couple
...» Read More!Will Faudree just announced via press release that he is withdrawing Andromaque from Pau after the mare sustained a minor injury. Missie’s fans can rest assured that she will be back in action next spring,
...» Read More!Thoroughbred racehorses that go on to second careers are unique in that they have two retirements in their lifetimes: the first from the track and the second from the show ring. Thoroughbred Legends, a new
...» Read More!Amy and Gallerone at the 2011 AECs. (Photo by Leslie Threlkeld, courtesy of USEA.) As Amy Barrington continues to recover, the eventing community has once again bonded together in a show of determination and support to
...» Read More!Samantha will be along with a full report shortly, but we have to give a huge shout out to Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen who put in a stellar test to take the lead
...» Read More!Jessie Phoenix rode Don Good’s Pavarotti perfectly to keep him just under the boil, and produce a test good enough to score 48.1 which currently has her sitting in 4th place. Thanks to Rupert Bell
...» Read More!You never really know what the weekend has in store for you until it happens. You can plan, hope and visualize all you want but rarely does it come out exactly as anticipated. Often times
...» Read More!Phillip Dutton’s vast experience showed this morning when he got the absolute best out of Team Rebecca’s stunning mover Ben to score 48.3, good enough for third place at the morning coffee break, behind Kai
...» Read More!Raincoats were de rigeur at the First Horse Inspection at the Fidelity Blenheim International Horse Trials CCI*** Wednesday afternoon, as a persistent drizzle set in around lunchtime. It didn’t deter the North American contingent however,
...» Read More!Good morning Eventing Nation! Welcome to the very first day of Dressage at the Fidelity Blenheim Palace Horse Trials! As I’m sure you’ve gathered, we have quite a few U.S. riders across the pond enjoying
...» Read More!Just as everyone has diverse taste in music, riders have different taste in pump-up music. Start-Box Jams plays homage to the songs that give us the courage to tackle cross country. Do you have some favorite
...» Read More!Eric Winter’s Fidelity Blenheim International CCI*** course, beautifully built by David Evans and his team, is a real test – big with lots of accuracy questions and a couple of steep hills amongst the rolling
...» Read More!According to The Racing Post, 124 unnamed, unauthorized medications have been confiscated from Sheikh Mohammed’s Dalham Hall Stud operation in Newmarket, England. The Moorley Farm East segment of the estate, where the drugs were found,
...» Read More!It’s been a big year for Meghan O’Donoghue. After finishing 12th place in her first four-star at Rolex with her superstar off-track Thoroughbred Pirate, she received the Jacqueline B. Mars Competition and Training Grant to compete
...» Read More!EN guest blogger Kristi Nunnink just returned from a successful weekend at Copper Meadows, where she won the Advanced division with her rockstar mare R-Star. Kristi and Rosie next head out to Texas to tackle
...» Read More!I watch this video every year on 9/11. Budweiser produced this commercial after the terrorist attacks on New York City, airing it just once during the 2002 Super Bowl so as not to make a
...» Read More!Kelsey Briggs is a North Carolina-based eventer who found her Intermediate horse, The Gentleman Pirate, at the racetrack. Kelsey is a hardworking person and a wonderful horsewoman, and it came as quite a blow when
...» Read More!When George Morris stopped in at Boyd Martin’s Windurra Farm, he dispensed a number of George-isms that we shared with you previously. I would be remiss if I said that only a few of those
...» Read More!It is a little hard to believe that twelve years have passed since September 11, 2001, but today marks another year gone since that fateful day when thousands of Americans lost their lives. I know
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