A little good luck charm this morning brought to you by the team at MCTA Horse Trials at Shawan Downs in Maryland. May it bring you an excellent rest of your week!
U.S. Events Opening Entries Today
Millbrook H.T. (NY); Hunt Club Farms H.T. (VA)
U.S. Events Closing Events Today
Twin Rivers Summer H.T. (CA); The Maryland International CCI & H.T. (MD); Bouckaert Equestrian H.T. (GA); Inavale Farm H.T. (OR); Larkin Hill H.T. (NY)
News & Reading
This year, on Sept. 6–7, the Five Points Horse Trials at the Carolina Horse Park in Raeford, NC, will offer something eventers in the Southeast haven’t seen in years: long-format divisions. For the first time, the popular early-fall fixture will include Beginner Novice and Novice Three-Day divisions as part of the USEA Classic Series. Read more about this exciting new development here.
The standard deworming protocol that we all have known for most of our horse lives has changed significantly recently due to updated guidelines from the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). The AAEP now recommends going away from the previous routine cycle and doing more targeted testing and treatment instead. Read more on these updated guidelines here.
We’ve all been there: enjoying a perfectly lovely ride when out of nowhere, our horse takes offense to something they’ve either seen daily for their entire lives and have decided it SIMPLY MUST be out to cause certain death. How we react in these situations matters a lot when it comes to addressing the “spooky behavior” in the future. Horse Sport has some tips for this here.
Phillip Dutton may hold the series lead for the US Equestrian Open of Eventing ahead of the $200k final at Morven Park in October, but there is still plenty of time and more than a few chances for someone else to threaten his standing. Read more in the latest US Equestrian Open blog here.
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Pick up some tips for traveling with your horses’ nutrition program from dressage rider Reese Koffler-Stanfield:
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Take a tour of the iconic Stables of the Chateau de Chantilly, home to the Living Museum of the Horse, which presents the relationship between humans and horses since the beginning of civilization:
