All nineteen horses that completed yesterday’s cross-country phase came forward for the final horse inspection this morning at the Tattersalls International Horse Trials. The horses were presented to an assembled ground jury of Annabel Scrimgeour (GBR), Dr Ernst
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This spring I’ve been slowly bringing my semi-retired event horse back into work. There have already been hills and valleys — he’s a spooky guy that loves nothing more than a buck and spin, so
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And then there were nineteen. You’d have been forgiven, after watching pathfinder Izzy Taylor‘s laughably easy clear aboard PSH Gazelle, for thinking that Ian Stark had, perhaps, made his Tattersalls CCI4*-L track a bit too doable. But
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Upper-level eventer Elisa Wallace has broken fear down into two categories: helpful and hurtful. In her most recent Q&A on her YouTube Page, Elisa talks through this distinction, and gives some helpful tips on how you
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Keeping your horses yourself is essentially one long non-stop chorefest, but there are a few chores that are standouts for being basically the worst things ever. Kristen Kovatch counts down her personal list. Horses are
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Determination, grit, diligence, bravery … these are all frequently celebrated qualities in eventers. But an equally critical quality if you want to play the horse game? A sense of humor. The more easily triggered, the
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It’s said that Memorial Day is considered the unofficial start of summer, but for me it’s my first cross country school of the year (which as luck would have it more-or-less coincided with Memorial Day
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We’ve reached the bit of the season where the internationals come up so thick and fast that you’ll put yourself at risk of whiplash if you try to keep up with them all. But sometimes,
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There’s something about Tattersalls. Even when the wind is blowing – and boy, is it blowing – and a cluster of foreboding clouds jostle for prime position over the main arena, it’s possessed of a
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This week’s edition of #EventerFailFriday comes courtesy of Camilla Mortensen, an eventer from Eugene, Oregon. During a recent clinic
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It seems like most areas of eventing in 2019 are turning into a rain forest. The deluge we have experienced so far the season has been breaking records all over, and canceling countless shows, cross
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Drawn together by the hope being able to publicly display the hard work and dedication we have put into our equine friends, a horse show is a gathering of like people with one similar goal:
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Well, it’s basically June now, and Virginia has officially reached wake-up-at-5-a.m.-or-boil-to-death status, AKA the summer death zone. Non horse people always ask me how I survive when it’s truly terrible hot outside, and my advice
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We’re in the final stretch until Longines Luhmühlen CCI5*-L in two weeks, and the event has shared the first sneak peak of the cross country. Watch to find out what Course Designer Mike Etherington-Smith thinks is
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He might not be sitting atop the leaderboard with his own ride, Rosemaber Lancuest (24th on a 37.5), but it’s been a good day in the office nevertheless for Irish rider Padraig McCarthy. Two of his competitors’ horses in
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It’s time to play Who Jumped It Best? Woodside Preliminary Challenge Edition! Take a look at these beautiful photos from Sherry Stewart of horses and riders tackling the trakehner on Bert Wood’s course. Then vote
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I’m not usually susceptible to this kind of thing, as I must not be very tasty, but holy hell I got eaten ALIVE this week by bugs of all kinds. I have huge itchy bug
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Our friends at the United States Eventing Association has shared some footage from Boyd Martin’s show jumping clinic at Wheatland Farm in Purcellville, Va. earlier this month. In his clinic, Boyd focused on rideability.
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If you are unstable in the saddle, or lack balance, what is the first thing someone tells you? Strengthen your core. Yes, the abs are important. Most people have lost the ability to move from their “center,”
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Welcome to Tattersalls International Horse Trials and Country Fair where, just north-west of Dublin, Ireland’s foremost event has kicked off its 2019 iteration. It’s a bit grey, and a bit soggy, but the craic is
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The first leg of the 2019 Nations Cup series got off to a rollicking good start over the weekend at the Saracen Horse Feeds Houghton International Horse Trials, with Germany taking a consecutive fifth win.
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My patience finally paid off this past weekend when, three years after I bought him, I got to finally run Prelim on my second OTTB. My first OTTB was precocious and ran Prelim at the end of his
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Boyd Martin and Contestor won the $50,000 Devon Arena Eventing this weekend at the prestigious Devon Horse Show & Country Fair. It’s an exciting competition under the lights at the storied Dixon Oval arena. Watch a
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