Who Jumped It Best? Bromont Jaguar Edition
I’ve heard of “expensive rails” but using a Jaguar as jump filler is in a category all of its own: “That’ll cost you four faults AND tens of thousands of dollars. Should have picked up
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Product Review: Carr & Day & Martin Dreamcoat Ultimate Coat Finish
It can be a challenge to find just the right grooming products to use on my horses’ coats. And for my money, I want to see a healthy and shiny coat, because a gleaming coat
...» Read More!Fab Freebie: Win a Year’s Supply of Summer Games Electrolytes from Kentucky Performance Products
Summer is officially here, and it’s hot! If you live in the Midwest, it’s also quite a bit more humid than most of us would prefer. Supposedly, it’s better than being cold but sometimes I’m
...» Read More!Monday News and Notes from Success Equestrian
My earliest memory of the Triple Crown was as a 9-year-old watching Silver Charm just barely miss out on the Belmont win. Then Real Quiet a year later, followed by Charismatic in 1999 and on
...» Read More!Celebrate a Triple Crown Winner, Adopt an American OTTB, Presented by Cosequin
We’re all still recovering from the thrill that was witnessing a moment of sports history yesterday. American Pharoah has to be part unicorn, right? Either way, he’s the symbol of how great those American Thoroughbreds
...» Read More!Hope Bromont CCI2*/3* Winner Marilyn Little Has a Big Mantlepiece
Earlier today Marilyn Little and RF Overdressed earned themselves this sweet, sweet hunk of Canadian eventing memorabilia… …and by the end of the afternoon she and RF Demeter had won him a little friend. “This
...» Read More!Best Quotes and Reflections from Copper Meadows
It’s been a picture perfect California weekend at Copper Meadows, a fitting wrap up for Area VI’s last FEI event of the spring season. But it isn’t the ribbons that brings everyone out, weekend after
...» Read More!Marilyn Little and RF Overdressed Win Coveted Bear-Eating-Salmon Bromont CCI2* Trophy
All week long, the suspense has been killing us: Who was going to win the most Canadian trophy of them all? In the end — actually, all the way from the beginning — it was
...» Read More!Beau Guimond and Filibuster ST Bogart the Bromont CCI1* Win
Beau Guimond and Filibuster ST grabbed the Bromont CCI1* dressage lead and never let go, besting a field of 32 horses with a final score of 42.4. The 20-year-old from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into show
...» Read More!I Woke Up Like This: Sunday Bromont Jog Report
The first order of business, of course, is who passed and who didn’t. So we’ll run through that quickly and then get down to real talk, including but not limited to the fact that Waylon
...» Read More!Wise Espartaco Collapses, Dies After Cross Country at Roebke’s Run
It is with great sadness that we can confirm Wise Espartaco, owned and ridden by Ronald Zabala-Goetschel, collapsed and died following cross country yesterday while competing in the CCI2* at Roebke’s Run Horse Trials in Minnesota.
...» Read More!Oswaldo and Sarka: The Sweetest Love Story of Bromont 2015
In 1976 Oswaldo Mendez was a 19-year-old kid on a 6-year-old horse representing his home country of Guatemala in the Olympics. He was competing in show jumping, which that year was held in Bromont and
...» Read More!Sunday Links from One K Helmets
What a race. I’m still speechless. I was beginning to believe that I’d never see it done in my lifetime, that the early-summer ritual of hype would stretch on endlessly for the rest of my
...» Read More!End-of-the-Day Thoughts on Bromont Cross Country
Could it have been a more magical day for horse sport? I’m still in disbelief that a real live Triple Crown winner is walking the earth. Like the Bromont eventers we surveyed yesterday, I was
...» Read More!Eventers React to American Pharoah Winning the Triple Crown
So what if we aren’t horse racers? We are horse people, and the thought of finally adding another Triple Crown to the record books is plenty enough to get our blood pumping. In all the
...» Read More!American Pharoah Ends 37-Year Triple Crown Drought With Belmont Win
Who cares that his name is misspelled? We don’t. The scientists couldn’t correctly predict that American Pharoah would end the 37-year Triple Crown drought, but we don’t need to put our a’s before o’s to
...» Read More!Top 2 Bromont CCI1* Leaders Recap Their XC Rides
Yesterday’s Bromont CCI1* dressage leaders didn’t budge an inch during today’s cross-country competition. The top three pairs — Beau Guimond on Filibuster ST, Will Coleman on Butch Cassidy, and Lucia Strini on My Royal Cooley
...» Read More!More Than a Sand Dancer: Marilyn Little’s RF Overdressed Reveals His XC Hops in Bromont CCI2*
When it comes to “floaty-boat” warmbloods, to revisit the made-up adjective I used to describe Marilyn Little’s RF Overdressed on Thursday, you just never know. Sometimes the springs in the dressage ring translate into mad
...» Read More!Exciting Conclusion Crowns Copper Meadows Winners
The new Hugh Lochore designed Copper Meadows cross country course seemed to produce either a great round or a not-so-good one. Time, as always, played a factor out on course, with no double clears on
...» Read More!Emily Beshear and Shame on the Moon Land Bromont CCI3* XC Lead
Double-clear cross-country rounds are gold here at Bromont and Emily Beshear produced one of only three of them with Shame on the Moon in the CCI3* today. Emily told us yesterday that she came here
...» Read More!Barb Crabo and Amber Levine Continue to Dominate at Copper Meadows
Morning came early for the riders in the upper divisions at Copper Meadows. While the CIC1* completed both dressage and stadium yesterday, the remaining FEI and horse trials divisions shifted schedules to show jump early in
...» Read More!Will American Pharoah Win the Belmont? Bromont Eventers Weigh In
Everyone knows that it’s terrible idea to hang one’s hopes and dreams on a horse — especially a 3-year-old, kinda-broke thoroughbred that would rather be playing grab-tail with his buddies in a field than getting
...» Read More!Horses and Riders Come First At Copper Meadows
Copper Meadows proved once again yesterday why it is a favorite of eventers of the West, despite the sometimes very long drive! Those coming from Northern California often drive approximately 10 hours to reach the
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