After a Saturday that split opinions, it’s been enormously exciting to have an action-packed afternoon of influential competition at the MARS Maryland 5 Star. Though our top three would ultimately remain unchanged after cross-country, the short
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Newly-named FEI world #1 Tim Price has his pre-cross country routine down to a T — top athletes in the making, take note here: the key to success lies in a sack of McDonald’s, maybe
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THE ESSENTIALS Length: 6555m Optimum time: 11:30 Fences: 29 Speed: 570mpm “Last year, with hindsight,” I must have been insane,” laughs MARS Maryland 5 Star course designer Ian Stark, who has delivered us a new-look, considerably tougher track for
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Ian Stark’s second design here at the Maryland 5 Star has certainly upped the ante from its inaugural running in 2021. It was to be expected, for a designer doing his first 5* track on
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We are through the first horse inspection here at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, presented by Brown Advisory, but the jog was not without its dramatics for the 5* horses. A total of 24 5*
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After an absolutely whirlwind of a 2022 season, the penultimate five-star and the final such event in North America looms large this week. A small-but-mighty field for the second Maryland 5 Star features a boatload
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From Pennsylvania to California, and many places in between, our Eventing Nation was out and about this weekend at eight recognized events across the country. We also saw a big weekend of action at Morven
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Liz Halliday-Sharp will kick us off for the 2022 MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill presented by Brown Advisory with long-time partner, The Monster Partnership’s 2011 Irish Sport Horse gelding, Cooley Quicksilver. The pair
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Eventing Nation is excited to once again team up with Ride iQ for an exclusive course walk at next month’s Maryland 5 Star. The popularity of our course walk at Kentucky even impressed Chinch, so
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Boekelo, eh? You think you’ve got it sussed, and then it surprises you all over again with — and you can take your pick, here — an inflatable stage in the main arena, a final
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After yesterday’s team-focused day of dressage at Military Boekelo CCIO4*-L, there was a serious first-phase gauntlet thrown down: Laura Collett and Dacapo delivered an excellent 21.9, earning them the lead and posing a serious challenge to all
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There are a few riders in this game that never, ever throw away a mark unless there’s a figurative gun to their heads, and Badminton winner Laura Collett is one of them. Whichever horse she comes
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On paper, if you were going to explain the concept of a horse inspection to an outsider to the sport, it wouldn’t sound fascinating, would it? But there’s something really rather delightful about being in
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US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athlete-and-horse combinations that will compete at the 2022 FEI WBFSH Eventing World Breeding Championship for Young Horses. The event will take place Oct. 20-23 at Le Lion d’Angers,
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Fresh off a team silver medal win at the 2022 Eventing World Championship in Pratoni, Italy, Will Coleman, Ariel Grald, Lauren Nicholson and Tamie Smith are headed to the Morven Park Fall International CCI &
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On June 1, 2021, the USEA instituted a new policy: at training level and above, a competitor who has 20 or more jump faults in the show jumping phase of an event must compulsorily retire.
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Before this month, 2006 was the most recent year that the U.S. had secured a medal in World Equestrian Games/World Championship competition. This honor was earned by the late and great Amy Tryon with Poggio
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As I write this piece midday Wednesday, Hurricane Ian, now a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 155 mph, is bearing down on Florida’s south western coastline. Ian’s initial path had him crashing in
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We’ve got an exciting update to the entry list for the MARS Maryland 5 Star presented by Brown Advisory, which will return to the airwaves for its sophomore edition from October 12–16. The overseas contingent who
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Tyler Held is a professional groom and Sport and Performance Psychology Consultant. You may have seen her over the last few years working for 5* rider Jennie Brannigan or listened to an episode of her podcast, The
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This has by far been the hardest memoir to write. I want to get it so right! Somehow it feels like everything happened so quickly forever ago and then other times I’m slowly daydreaming about
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Happy fall season! With the first day of fall having crept up on us this past Thursday, we had our first official weekend of fall competition. Bundle up in some cozy sweaters, grab a warm
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In this excerpt from his book Two Brains, One Aim, FEI judge and popular clinician Eric Smiley reminds us why riding “outside the box” is a necessary component of every horse’s training—and of particular importance
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