Here we go! Nominated entries for the FEI World Championships for Eventing, happening September 14-18 at Pratoni del Vivaro in Italy, are due tomorrow (August 15), and following a final outing at Haras du Pin
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How must it feel, we wonder, to be Michael Jung, Ze Terminator himself, who has won everything there is to win and still just keeps on keeping on? Does it get boring, all this victory? Does
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We know that weather chat is neither sexy nor zesty in any way, but when you’re at an event that’s been as hot as Haras du Pin — and that’s hot enough that we’ve been
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alexandra Baugh (@altorac_eventing) We learned this weekend that Richard Picken, beloved husband of Joanie Morris and renowned show jumping rider and coach, has passed away at
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For all that Haras du Pin has the reputation of not being a dressage competition, when you get a field of this calibre together to go head-to-head, it does kind of…become a dressage competition. Or
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We’ve got to give credit where credit is due: 24-year-old Brit Mollie Summerland certainly put the pressure on the maestro. Her score of 22.5 with Charly van ter Heiden, which saw her take a decisive day one
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Few riders have captured the public’s collective heart so wholly as 24-year-old Mollie Summerland, who became Luhmühlen’s youngest-ever winner last year with her longtime partner Charly van ter Heiden, and who has been so open about her
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In this excerpt from his book Two Brains, One Aim, international eventer Eric Smiley explains how working on something that may seem insignificant now can have a major impact on your performance later. All sorts of
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After two years of coronavirus pandemic-induced hiatus, the Magic Millions Festival of British Eventing was welcomed back to Gatcombe Park this weekend. While the title of British Open Champion did change hands today (2019 winners Jonelle
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As the team announcements start to come thick and fast (including that US team one, which we simply have not stopped discussing on our EN group chat since it dropped!), May’s test event for the
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The Canadian eventing team for the forthcoming FEI World Championships for Eventing at Pratoni del Vivaro (September 14-18) has been released today, and it’s arguably among the strongest Canadian teams we’ve seen in recent memory. Though we
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Like kids on Christmas, we’re eagerly tearing the wrapping off press release after press release today, and the latest to land in our inboxes is the hottest ticket of them all: Team USA has been
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Deirdre Griffith (USA) and Willemien Jooste (SA) crossed the finish line of the 2022 Mongol Derby two days ago as unplanned partners. The two riders hadn’t anticipated riding together, but had unexpectedly met up to
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One of the best parts of following the Mongol Derby is the hilarity (and intensity) that ensues via The Equestrianists’ daily blogs. Each evening, the team rehashes the events of the day — and its
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Eventers have historically fared pretty well in the Mongol Derby, not because we know the first thing about endurance riding but because as a lot we’re generally tough, scrappy and just psychotic enough to think we
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It’s a busier time of year than we’ve been accustomed to recently, as the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, the second of England’s iconic and historical 5* events, will make its long-awaited return to the
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A tweet from US Equestrian reminded me that #RaveHorse was a thing just about a year ago at the postponed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. In honor of this sacred holiday, let’s take a dive
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Brooke Wadsworth had a magical week at The Event at Rebecca Farm with her Friesian Sport Horse, Morpheus. The pair caught our attention after they scored an impressive 13.6 on their dressage test in the
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Reignite your Versailles daydreams for just a moment, because we’ve got some exciting new fuel for them: the International Olympic Committee has released its schedule of sport for the 2024 Paris Games, which will see
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Asked to choose a word to describe the newly-crowned CCI4*-L winner of The Event at Rebecca Farm, what pops immediately to mind is “eager”. One just has to steal a glimpse of the eight-year-old Canadian-bred
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The FEI cross country kicked off on another absolutely beautiful morning at Rebecca Farm, where the FOMO and mountain views abound. Ian Stark’s course had a different feel to it this year, running in the
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Clay Sanders got his introduction to eventing like many other horse show dads – his daughter Libby joined Pony Club, was then introduced to the sport, and came home one day full of enthusiasm to
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anni Grandia (@annigrandia) The first day of The Event at Rebecca Farm is all about the trot-ups — for the international divisions and for the Novice
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