Sport Horse Nation Spotlight: Training Level Troopers
Training level is where things can start getting interesting. Horses have to be smart and quick enough to handle the beginnings of technical combinations, but nothing
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Watch the Tattersalls International Horse Trials Live Stream
Tatts International Horse Trials Sunday from Tattersalls International HT on Vimeo. The action is underway at Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair in beautiful Ratoath, Ireland. You can watch live Thursday through Sunday thanks to
...» Read More!Tattersalls CCI4*-L: Final Horse Inspection Sees Field Shrink by One
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
...» Read More!Sunday Links Presented by One K Helmets
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
...» Read More!Tattersalls: Will Coleman Leads CCI4*-L; Tim Price Unstoppable in CCI4*-S
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
...» Read More!Elisa Wallace on Mental Toughness: ‘Fear Can Be Your Friend’
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
...» Read More!Best of HN: 4 Farm Chores That Are Absolutely The Worst
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
...» Read More!#EventerProblems Vol. 183, Presented by Haygain: Sense of Humor Required
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
...» Read More!Saturday Links from Nupafeed USA
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
...» Read More!Friday Video from SmartPak: The Houghton Cross Country Binge
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,
...» Read More!Tattersalls CCI4*-S: Number One Position for World Number One
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
...» Read More!#EventerFailFriday: Come for the Up-Bank, Stay for the Grass
This week’s edition of #EventerFailFriday comes courtesy of Camilla Mortensen, an eventer from Eugene, Oregon. During a recent clinic
...» Read More!Friday Fashion Forecast: Voler Caliber Vellum Rain Jacket
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
...» Read More!How Not to Be a Jerk at Horse Shows
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:
...» Read More!Friday News & Notes from World Equestrian Brands
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
...» Read More!Thursday Video from Ecovet: First Look at Luhmühlen CCI5*-L Cross Country
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
...» Read More!Tattersalls CCI4*-L: Best of British as Pippa Funnell Heads Dressage
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
...» Read More!Who Jumped It Best? Woodside Preliminary Challenge Edition
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
...» Read More!Thursday News & Notes from Taylor Harris Insurance Services (THIS)
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
...» Read More!Wednesday Video from Kentucky Performance Products: A Rideability Exercise with Boyd Martin
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.
...» Read More!Improve Your Riding by Strengthening Your Glutes
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,”
...» Read More!Tattersalls: All Pass CCI4* First Horse Inspections
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
...» Read More!Who Jumped it Best? Houghton Nations Cup Edition
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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