I sure hope someone out there is horse shopping this week, as it’s getting increasingly difficult to not pick up the phone week in and week out of “window” shopping! We’ve selected three more OTTBs
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What a wonderful busy weekend around Eventing Nation! We have many events to recap, as well as a Woodside recap to come later in the day, and many congratulations are in order for the top
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What a gem we’ve found today, thanks to a post on Facebook by our friend Bill Kraatz. This documentary footage from the 1982 Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event is one for the ages, and a
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It was a thrilling finale at the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park today, where the Open CIC3* pairs contested a very challenging course that shook the leaderboard yet again.
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Oliver Townend had a bang up day yesterday at the Festival of British Eventing, taking home wins in the Novice and Intermediate Championships. After a show jumping course that shook up the leaderboard, Oliver now
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I must admit, I had one of those “You know you’re a horse person when…” moments yesterday. I heard back from the mechanic about my car and just about choked when I heard what it
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The world’s most high-profile eventing championship is no easy party to throw. But if this week’s Aquece Rio Olympic test event is any indication, the host site’s game plan is right on track. Of course, there’s
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Oliver Townend decided to stroll home with two winners at this weekend’s Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park, while Andrew Hoy leads the Open CIC3*.
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Brazilian eventers are nothing if not ballsy, so it seems fitting that they be the ones to have a crack at a scaled-down CIC2* version of next year’s Olympic cross-country track. Overnight leader of the
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Elisa Wallace piloted Di Stebbins Borneo Shady, an uniquely colored skewbald Irish Sport Horse gelding, to a 13th place finish in the Preliminary division at Millbrook last weekend, and she donned her helmet cam for
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It’s not complaining. It’s commiserating. Here are 30 more reader-submitted struggles: If you missed them: Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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The Festival of British Eventing is an annual event that is a destination for British eventers. Held at Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire and features the British Open, Intermediate and Novice Championships. We’re in luck, as
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We all know the frustration of seeing your horse shuffle in from turn-out missing a shoe the morning of a show. Your brain kicks in to overdrive processing things, attempting to rationalize and explain away what you
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Part CIC2* course, part wildlife safari, the unveiling of Pierre Michelet’s cross-country course at the site of the 2016 Olympic Games is everything we hoped it would be and more. It manages to combine real-life
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The fall season is just kicking off, and many riders have Fair Hill as their big destination. Appropriately dubbed “Mini Rolex” by many riders, Fair Hill is a marquee weekend for the sport, boasting entries
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Nilson Moreira da Silva may ride under the Brazilian flag but ever since he moved to the States in 2011, he’s been embraced as one of our eventing community’s own. Based in Aiken with Laura
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The U.S. eventing community lost a legend this week, as Kerry Millikin’s 1996 Olympic partner Out and About, one of the greatest Thoroughbred event horses of our time, was humanely euthanized Wednesday at 28 years old due
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A total of 18 horses divided amongst 11 riders are buffed up, braided and ready to stride down the center line here at Aquece Rio International Horse Trials, a CIC2* serving as the Olympic test
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Holy bananas, you guys. Yesterday I saw on the Facebook group “OTTB Connect” that some guy was cleaning out his late uncle’s estate and found Secretariat’s training bridle packed away in some box. He remembers that
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Hi! Ny name is Lauren Pye, and I am 10 years old. My pony’s name is Wicket, and he is 13 years old. I got him for my birthday two years ago. Last Friday we
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Long since converted to “that friend” who borrows a horse for the occasional weekend ride, I still enjoy the occasional chance to attend clinics with top professionals in any capacity I can, especially when it
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Three former upper-level stars competed in the Junior Training divisions at Millbrook Horse Trials last weekend, and it’s clear they are loving life with their new riders at the lower levels of the sport, not to mention
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From ski slopes to river rapids to cross country courses, whenever a relatively untested venue is named as the site of an international sporting event on the scale of the Olympics, there are going to
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