A familiar face was back in action (and winning form) this weekend at The Fork at Tryon (NC): Boyd Martin finally got his five-star partner, Luke 140, back to the four-star level with a CCI4*-S/US
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We’re wishing a very happy formal retirement to Oliver Townend’s multi-five-star winner and Olympic medalist, Ballaghmor Class. “Thomas,” who our U.S. fans will be quite familiar with as a former winner of both Defender Kentucky
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It’s another big week here at EN! This week, we’re heading to England for the 2026 Defender Burghley CCI5*, where a star-studded field awaits this year’s challenge. It’s truly a wide-open competition this week since
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One Big Thing: All the Happenings at the AEC View this post on Instagram A post shared by U.S. Eventing Association (@useventing) Today marks the start of the 2026 American Eventing Championships! This also means that,
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It’s hard to say what was louder: the pole, or the crowd. It was midway through Michael Jung’s round when it happened. Ros Canter, seconds before, had jumped a faultless clear round with her five-time
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Here we go ENers. It’s just a case of keeping the colored poles in the cups, or not, for the top 25 and then we’ll see the new World Champion crowned. On top of that
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Sunday horse inspections can be a tense affair, and at a major Championship the pressure rises exponentially. Following their big efforts on cross country yesterday, the hardworking grooms and care team for each horse spent
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If you’ve never been to Aachen before, allow us to set the scene. There are 35,000 people crammed into a space the size of a singular loop of Badminton’s cross-country course; they are packed in
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We’re in for a day of world-class cross country action coming at us from Aachen as the second phase of the eventing competition at the World Championships plays out. The field is a fierce one,
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While I have hunted and hunted in the corners of the internet, I have not been able to find a map of the 2006 World Equestrian Games cross country course to compare it to this
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It can sometimes feel like a bit of a foregone conclusion that the first phase will be a match race between Michael Jung and fischerChipmunk FRH and Laura Collett and London 52, but in the
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The Thoroughbred has long been a hallmark within the sport of eventing, but as the sport has evolved we’ve seen a shift to horses with, yes, strong Thoroughbred blood but with additional influence from various
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FRIDAY SESSION 5: THE LEADERBOARD: 1️⃣ 🇩🇪 In gold medal spot, is Julia Krajewski and Uelzener’s Nickel on a score of 22. 2️⃣ 🇬🇧 In silver is Laura Collett and London 52 on a score
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It’s been a long, hot, and enormously competitive first day at the FEI World Championships at Aachen, where 43 horses and riders took to the stage to get the week’s sport underway. There were the
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THURSDAY SESSION 5: THE LEADERBOARD: 1️⃣ 🇬🇧 Tom McEwen and JL Dublin came out meaning business in this session and totally threw down the gauntlet, taking over the gold medal position with a score of
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What’s On at Aachen: Dressage Day 1 9:30 am CEST / 3:30 am EST — [Start Order & Ride Times] View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eventing Nation (@goeventing) It’s here, it’s real,
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Let the games begin! This morning’s First Horse Inspection for the eventers at the FEI Eventing World Championships Aachen 2026 was our first real opportunity to lay eyes on the 88 competitors who have come
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Welcome, welcome to Aachen, Germany: the site of a special edition of the FEI World Championships, which unite nearly all FEI disciplines for the first time since the 2018 World Equestrian Games at the site
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We have a nations drawn order ahead of Wednesday’s First Horse Inspection here at the FEI Eventing World Championships. To follow will be the actual individual order the nations will send their riders, if they
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It’s very nearly go time for another World Championships, and this time we’re taking things back to Germany and the historic CHIO Aachen grounds that exist as a veritable Disneyland for horse people. Starting tomorrow
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A substitution for the Defender U.S. Eventing Squad has been announced ahead of the FEI Eventing World Championships in Aachen, which begin on August 11 in Germany. Phillip Dutton, who was initially named to the
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90 total combinations representing 28 countries have been confirmed as Definite Entries for the upcoming FEI Eventing World Championships for Seniors, taking place alongside five other FEI disciplines (jumping, dressage, para dressage, driving and vaulting)
...» Read More!One Big Thing: Defender Burghley entries are now open View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@burghleyhorsetrials) Entries are now open for both the CCI5* competition and the Dubarry Burghley
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