With the team dressage in the books, today at Military Boekelo was all about individual competitors in the CCIO4*-L – but such is the strength of the team competitors that just two combinations would ultimately
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Last week we asked you to show us your cross country style for a chance to win a custom ear bonnet and saddle pad set from our friends at E.A. Mattes and World Equestrian Brands, and you delivered!
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Anyone who has had to take an anatomy and physiology class in high school and college knows that it’s a complicated subject. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that researchers are always learning new things
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I’m not sure if this is just a horse person thing, but I do feel like it’s a particularly eventer thing: cramming wayyyy too many people on some sort of transport vehicle. How many people
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Unless you were up and plugged into the internet by 4:47 a.m. this morning, you probably missed watching Team USA’s Boekelo dressage tests live. Good news — between Tilly’s supersized dressage report, the FEI live
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A star-studded lineup of horses and riders are hotly contesting the FEI Nations Cup at the Boekelo CCIO4*-L this weekend, and we’ve got a preview of new designer Adrian Ditcham’s cross country track here for
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And just like that, we’d seen fifty dressage tests. In a departure from normal form, Boekelo opted to group all its team riders together in the order of go, allowing us to close out the
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Time to firm up those weekend plans, EN! One of my favorite experiences volunteering came a few years ago when I got to work in dressage warm-up for the first time. I love watching riders
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Team USA looked ready to open a can of whoop-a$$ on the international eventing stage yesterday as they took to the catwalk for the first horse inspection and rehearsed their dressage moves. CCIO4*-L dressage gets
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There’s been an awful lot of fuss about Boekelo this year, and for once, it’s not just because of the infamous parties (though what happens in Boekelo stays in Boekelo, to quote the enthusiastic –
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It has begun: clipping season! This time of year a lot of people are not excited, but I am because number one, fall is my favorite time of year and I am 10000% over summer,
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For those of you fearing the swift approach of the end of the season, take heart: we’ve still got some jolly big competitions to look forward to before we all go into hibernation for the
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Welcome to every eventer’s favourite week of the year: it’s Military Boekelo time, and we’re in for one heck of a week at the Netherlands’ feature event. Not only is Boekelo the finale of the
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Riding forward into contact is one of those concepts that seems so simple, but can be quite difficult in practice; it takes a well-trained horse and a rider
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We are deeply saddened to report that there was a rider fatality Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at the Morven Park International Equestrian Center in Leesburg, Va. Nicolle Villers-Amatt suffered a fatal accident while cross country schooling,
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I know we are all primed to watch Boekelo this weekend because with the ridiculous scoring mechanism the teams are doing, there’s sure to be some drama. We also have a pretty rad all-female
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A solid conditioning program is the foundation of any eventing partnership, but there’s no one way to do it. Boyd Martin lays out his three biggest considerations for conditioning and endurance in this four-minute peak
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While black athletes have made huge inroads into many traditionally white-dominated sports in recent decades, equestrian sport has remained woefully
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CANTER Pennsylvania is excited to host the fourth annual End of Meet Showcase to be held at Presque Isle Downs in Erie, PA, this Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. The showcase gives prospective OTTB buyers the
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Does your cross country style turn heads in awe and admiration? Show us your color coordinated run-and-jump fashion for a chance to win a matching ear bonnet and saddle pad set from our friends at
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Ian Stark was out competing stateside this weekend at The Event at Woodside in Northern California. He took the ride on Erin Kellerhouse’s Sir Elijah Craig in the Open Preliminary. Though he was HC in
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2018 champion trainer and five-star eventer Elisa Wallace was a back again for another shot at the Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover, which took place October 4-7 at the Kentucky Horse Park. Elisa’s off-track prospect
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In this excerpt from her book Physical Therapy for Horses, former physical therapist for the German eventing and endurance teams Helle Katrine Kleven explains what is really happening inside the stiff horse. When a horse
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