It’s not over until it’s over, and it came down to the final fences on cross country that determined the winner of the second leg of the Event Rider Masters 2017 Series at Germany’s Internationales
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All North American combinations passed the final horse inspection this morning at Tattersalls. Just one pair in the CCI3*, Benjamin Leahy and Yasmina V, will not go forward to show jumping, giving us 23 total combinations
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It’s that time of year when everyone is finishing up school for the semester (or, for us old folks, remembering the times when we had months of freedom stretching ahead of us and bemoaning adulthood),
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Vittoria Panizzon and Amy and Patricia Lambert’s Chequers Play The Game gave us a cross country lesson in the CCI3* at Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair today to deservedly hold the lead. Vittoria
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Presented by: I’m fairly certain my horses know they own me (The Husband certainly does). What I’m unsure of is just how totally insane this makes me. At least I can take solace in the
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It’s almost go time at the Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair. We’ve got three Americans in the top five in the CCI3* and today will be a big test. The course runs a
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Dressage day at the Indiana Eventing Association Three-Day Event was full of excitement as riders prepared to dance in front of the judges. Indiana greeted competitors with another beautiful day with a little bit of
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While some of the best in the world are competing across the pond this weekend — and I’m certainly enjoying following along with those events — I’ve been especially delighting in all the jog photos
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One of the many things we love about Laine Ashker as an eventer in the social media age is her willingness to share the less-than-pretty moments with good grace and good humor — because she
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In August 2017 writer/rider Leslie Wylie will be attempting her most fearsome feat of #YOLO yet: a 620-mile race across Mongolia. Riding 25 semi-wild native horses. Carrying only 11 pounds of gear. Relying on nomads
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It was a quiet day for our North Americans competing in the CCI3* at the Tattersalls International Horse Trials and Country Fair, as they had a break between yesterday’s dressage and tomorrow’s cross country. But
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Ingrid Klimke and SAP Escada FRH took the early lead today at Germany’s Internationales Wiesbadener PfingstTurnier, the second leg of the Event Rider Masters series. The pair performed a crisp, expressive test in front of
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The long format three-day event at IEA Horse Trials is underway! Indiana gave us a blessing with an absolutely lovely sunny and breezy day on Thursday as competitors unpacked their trailers and hacked their horses.
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With three Americans in the top five and one Canadian in the top 10 at Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair, we have a lot of cheering to do as the CCI3* riders take on Ian
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Everyone’s all pumped up about Tattersalls this weekend, meanwhile I’m back at home just thrilled that my 4-year-old moose baby head has stopped being a turd about standing still for the mounting block, and after one
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Jennie Brannigan collected a couple blues at Virginia Horse Trials over the weekend. Let’s rewind and rewatch, courtesy of The Horse Pesterer! She and Cambalda came out on top in the CIC2* division, turning in
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How do you get your young, enthusiastic event horse to win at the upper levels? By losing at the lower levels. The key is helping your hasty hare to think like a thoughtful tortoise. “Never
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Take five event riders of varying experience and levels – four professionals, two of whom are Olympians, and one amateur – put the Olympic riders on horses they’d never ridden before, and ask them to
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No one could catch Vittoria Panizzon’s record-breaking score of 34.5 in The Irish Field CCI3*, but three pairs in the afternoon group all made a valiant effort to give us four total scores in the
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As if it hadn’t already been a thrilling morning at Tattersalls with Phillip Dutton and Fernhill Revelation scoring 40.6 as the first pair out in the CCI3*, Vittoria Panizzon then delivered the best score of
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I’ll make a bold statement today, before anybody can beat me to it: I think Cooley Cross Border will return to his homeland and make a big statement this weekend, and bring home a top
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Doug Payne had two rides in the Devon Horse Show’s inaugural arena eventing class, held under the lights on Sunday night in Devon Horse Show’s legendary Dixon Oval. Flagmount’s Mischief, a 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse
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Some horses and riders just seem meant to be. As a case in point, take Heather Thomas, the Executive Director of both the Alachua County Humane Society and Gainesville Pet Rescue, and “Missy Elliot,” a horse
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