It was a safe and competitive cross country trip for the horses and riders in the Luhmühlen four-star division today, but the course did its job all the same. We have an all-new top five leaderboard,
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You couldn’t have asked for better conditions at Luhmühlen today, partly cloudy and in the high 60s. The Canadians took full advantage, and were able to cruise home without jumping faults and a handful of jumping
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If you are an Area II young’un with nothing to do next week, start packing your tack box! It’s not too late to sign up for the Young Rider Advancement Camp at Sandy River Equestrian
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Hard to believe it but we’re already halfway through June. That means The Event at Rebecca Farm is creeping closer and closer, day by day. With time ticking down, we’re left with just a couple
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Captain Mark Phillips has been Luhmühlen’s course designer since 2005, its first year as a CCI4* event. In 2013 his contract was extended by three year’s and will end after this year’s event, whereupon Mike Etherington-Smith
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Yesterday’s Luhmühlen CCI4* leader Julien Despontin was nudged off his perch today by Germany’s Julia Krajewski and Samourai du Thot, who scored a 39.0 to become our leaders heading into cross country. It was a
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I’ve successfully avoided having to address my tack hoarding issues for years but earlier this week things finally came to a head. I agreed to haul a barnmate to a dressage clinic this weekend and didn’t
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This spring we partnered with Kentucky Equine Research (KER) to bring you the Great KER Clockit Fitness Challenge. Readers dutifully submitted their sessions using the KER Clockit Sport app for a chance to win some amazing
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We are excited to see this name added to the Land Rover Geat Meadow International entry list: Clark Montgomery, who is fresh off a sensational second place finish in the Event Rider Masters CIC3* class
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Nyls gets a little mini summer vacation every year after the spring season quits, and then in June he starts coming back. By that I mean he spends about three weeks ballooning up like somebody
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Ride along on a marathon course at Fair Hill with driver Cindy Vollers and her matching 10-year-old Arab/Friesians Dark Timke and Dark Upke.
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With the summer heat and stress of competition and training under duress, it’s important for us to consider how we help our equine athletes replenish their electrolytes so that they can perform at the top
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History is repeating itself so far at Luhmühlen, where 26-year-old Julien Despontin and Waldano 36 hold the lead in the CCI4* after the first day of dressage, just as the Belgian combination did last year. Their
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If you really want to be the weirdo at the gym who’s practicing canter transitions on a balance ball, by all means go ahead and knock yourself out. We’re not going to judge you! Practicing
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We bet you don’t own a tall boot that looks like this! Lauren Kieffer and the amazingly talented artist Lisa Curry Mair have teamed up for a very cool project to benefit Brooke USA. This wonderful organization
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Exciting birth announcement! No, its not another professional rider, it’s the official UGA Eventing Team mascot, Fetty, who became a mother! A surprise mother, to be exact. Fetty turns out to be a girl, and
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All systems are go for Luhmühlen 2016, and we’re now privy to a preview of this year’s CCI4* track. It’s Captain Mark Phillips’ last year designing, as Mike Etherington-Smith will be taking over in 2017, and
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All 30 CCI4* horses passed muster in the first horse inspection at Luhmühlen this afternoon. Representing the U.S. is Boyd Martin with Crackerjack
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Aspen Farms in Yelm, Washington hosted its first horse trials of the Area VII season this past weekend, June 10-12. Over 300 horses and riders competed in divisions from Beginner Novice to Intermediate, and for
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Writing this OTTB Wishlist each week is a tough enough test of my willpower. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to work at the track! Take it from eventer/exercise rider Logan Bearden:
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We’re less than one week away from the announcement of the U.S. team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and with all of the selection trials now complete, we’re ready to make our
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Vienna Allport certainly has a flair for drama, as she proves with her enthusiastic salute last weekend at the Texas Rose Horse Park June horse trials. Vienna competed aboard Caramel Macchiato in the Junior Beginner
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I don’t know about you guys, but 99% of the time I feel like my brain is held together with bubble gum and scotch tape and I need all the help I can get to
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