The Defender U.S. Eventing Team will send four combinations to the FEI Eventing Nations Cup Boekelo CCIO4*-NC-L, Oct. 1-4 in Boekelo, the Netherlands, US Equestrian announced Sept. 23. The selected ...

In honor of Kathy Kusner receiving the U.S. Equestrian Federation Lifetime Achievement Award, we are republishing this Living Legend article that graced the cover of the April 4, 2016 Chronicle of the ...

Every adult amateur knows how tough it can be to fit riding into a busy lifestyle. But the demands of Ann Romney’s schedule would make her fellow competitors’ collective heads spin. She’s raised five ...

In this article, the third in my series on the future of the horse industry (click to read financial planning and business management strategies), let’s tackle boarding. This is an issue that should ...

Olympic gold medal show jumper McLain Ward and his wife, Lauren, welcomed a baby girl on the morning of Feb. 9. "At 7:49 this morning Lilly Kristine Ward was born. Lauren was incredible as always and ...

Out of the 26 rounds on the day of team competition at the 2024 USEF Pony Jumper National Championships (Kentucky) in August, there were nine eliminations and several rider falls, and only two of the ...

After winning team gold and individual silver at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Abdullah and Conrad Homfeld secured the 1985 FEI Volvo World Cup Final in Berlin. So by the time they qualified ...

At about 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, eventer Danielle Poulsen received a call from her barn manager at Long Branch Farm in Clarke County, Virginia, where she runs her business Poulsen Eventing. Just ...

For decades, families of serious junior riders faced what often felt like a binary choice: keep their child in a traditional classroom and watch the riding suffer, or chase the sport and accept an ...

Half of Max Corcoran’s life was packed into the back of her station wagon as she drove south down the interstate toward The Plains, Virginia. The other half sat in storage back in Massachusetts, ...

Conrad grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. “It wasn’t a very horsey area,” he recalled. “I loved meeting that horse, and I remember having lunch in their stall that day at the ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s a memorable Appaloosa gelding named Crocodile turned heads on the West Coast show jumping circuit. But for his rider, the late Twinkie Nissen, some of his biggest ...