We know that weather chat is neither sexy nor zesty in any way, but when you’re at an event that’s been as hot as Haras du Pin — and that’s hot enough that we’ve been
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alexandra Baugh (@altorac_eventing) We learned this weekend that Richard Picken, beloved husband of Joanie Morris and renowned show jumping rider and coach, has passed away at
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There are surely more details on their way, but one of the most important action items voted upon at the USEA Board of Governors meeting earlier this week was the approval of $100,000 in seed money
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For all that Haras du Pin has the reputation of not being a dressage competition, when you get a field of this calibre together to go head-to-head, it does kind of…become a dressage competition. Or
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The reigning Olympic champions of show jumping proved their mettle once again on Friday at the ECCO FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark, running away with the team championship and securing World gold. Believe it
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Here’a a quick, terrifying reminder to A) have an emergency plan, and B) have amazing neighbors. The hay barn at Sharon White’s Last Frontier Farm was struck by lightning and caught fire earlier this
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Amidst all the chatter about next month’s World Championships, I can’t help but feel that all of us have rather overlooked something very exciting indeed — the return of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials for
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We’ve got to give credit where credit is due: 24-year-old Brit Mollie Summerland certainly put the pressure on the maestro. Her score of 22.5 with Charly van ter Heiden, which saw her take a decisive day one
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Somehow — and with the help of plenty of cold beverages — we’ve made it to the end of the second day of dressage here at beautiful Haras du Pin, where the temperatures are in
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The Organising Committee of the ECCO FEI World Championships in Herning (DEN) have not only provided athletes with top class competition conditions, but have also set a new benchmark for the care and recognition of
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Alright August, I’m ready to stop waking up at five in the morning in order to have the energy to ride my barn of extremely energetic thoroughbreds. I don’t know how many of you are
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There’s obviously something potent about being British, called Charlotte, and riding horses — because after many years of dressage domination by a certain Ms. Dujardin, 26-year-old Lottie Fry has become the sport’s most exciting name. She
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Few riders have captured the public’s collective heart so wholly as 24-year-old Mollie Summerland, who became Luhmühlen’s youngest-ever winner last year with her longtime partner Charly van ter Heiden, and who has been so open about her
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In this excerpt from his book Two Brains, One Aim, international eventer Eric Smiley explains how working on something that may seem insignificant now can have a major impact on your performance later. All sorts of
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We’re well stuck into the first day of dressage here at Haras du Pin, but we couldn’t resist a look back at yesterday’s sizzling first horse inspection through the eyes of those who lived it
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The Nations Cup competition this week goes by a few names already: officially, it’s Le Grand Complet; often, you’ll hear it referred to by the Normandy estate it sits within, Haras du Pin (colloquially “Harass”
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tamie Smith (@tsmitheventing) Rory is home! Tamie shared on Instagram this week that Fleecework’s Royal has finally made her way home from Kentucky to
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We’re well and truly in the age of the equestrian influencer now, and if you’re anything like me, you might not be quite sure what on earth that actually means. Am I prematurely middle-aged? Maybe.
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Australia has joined the list of big six nations that have released a long list of horse-and-rider combinations for next month’s World Championships for Eventing, which will be held at Italy’s Pratoni del Vivaro from
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Following the success of its inaugural CCI4*-L in 2021, the Morven Park Fall International CCI and Horse Trials are set to return to Leesburg, VA, from October 5-9, 2022. The Fall International CCI and Horse
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If you like to summer where it sizzles, consider a trip to Normandy, in the north of France, where the temperature is currently rivalling that of the sun (nearly, anyway) and the eventing action on
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It’s been since 2018 that we’ve seen the popular Park Equine Kentucky Classique at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY, but the late-summer staple will return to the calendar over Labor Day weekend (September 2-4)
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by USA Dressage (@usadressage) It’s going to be a BUSY Wednesday in Herning, Denmark, where the ECCO FEI World Championships are currently underway for four disciplines. Today,
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