When I asked Zach Brandt what the biggest difference was between West and East Coast eventing, his response came with no hesitation: “It’s freezing!” Zach is a California native who relocated to North Carolina to
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Friday dawned bright and early, starting the day with horse trailers rolling in to Pine Top Farm in Thomson, Georgia in the dark of morning. As usual, it was bitter cold in the early hours,
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Today dawned the second day of USEF High Performance Training Sessions here in Aiken, and true to tradition at this point, it was positively freezing. The unseasonably bitter wind combined with the freshly clipped horses
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The final HSBC rankings have been released, and Andrew Nicholson tops the rankings once again this year with 634 points. William Fox-Pitt is close behind him with 621 points in second place. Buck Davidson is
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Yesterday we brought you Part One of the Nutrena USEA Top Ten Horses of The Year, presented by SmartPak, and today we bring you the second half of those amazing athletes. Determined by USEA year
...» Read More!US Eventing High Performance has to be in a good mood after Blenheim CCI3*. Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen finished third (tied for second, really) and first-timer Meghan O’Donoghue was 11th with Pirate. Meghan received
...» Read More!A few notes before we begin. First, William Fox-Pitt’s Cool Mountain, and Oliver Townend’s Ashdale Cruise Master and ODT Master Rose have landed in New York, where they will stay in quarantine until they travel
...» Read More!One thing is clear: the Team is sending its riders to Rolex. In the past, the USET has sometimes elected to send horses to spring 3*’s, but if you want to ride in Kentucky this
...» Read More!SoPo Live Scores, Poplar Live Scores (1) Phillip has the strongest arsenal of horses at this stage in the season that I have ever seen from a US rider. Woodburn looked calm and very confident.
...» Read More!*SoPo Live Scores, Poplar Place Live Scores It’s closer to Saturday than Friday now, but I have a few notes from the first day of competition here at SoPo: (1) Amy Tryon has Stephen
...» Read More!Rocking Horse: Scores, Finally a great weekend of weather all around for eventing in the South. In fact, I got a text complaining about the heat today at Rocking Horse. Rocking Horse had 21 divisions
...» Read More!Dressage tests: there’s an app for that. In New Zealand, if your horse escapes onto a highway and a car hits it, you are liable. $30,000US is up for grabs at the Ocala CCI**, which
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