I had just turned 18. I’d shown a bad Prix St. Georges on a borrowed horse the summer before I started college, and I’d gone to school horseless, because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to really dedicate myself to horses or just ride for fun. Two weeks into my first semester of college I
Continue Reading...Madden To Change Sport Career Direction After Tokyo
Beezie Madden will semi-retire from high-performance sport following the 2020 Olympic Games, which will be held Jul. 24 – Aug. 9 in Tokyo. Going forward, Madden, 56, of Cazenovia, New York, will focus instead on developing horses and riders to the championship level. “With the horses we have now, we’re 100 percent committed to trying
Continue Reading...Late-Game Decision Pays Off For Springsteen At WEF 6
Before she even landed off the first fence of the jump-off in the $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix, Jessica Springsteen was pretty sure she’d already lost. She and Volage Du Val Henry had a little bit of a miscommunication on take-off to that first jump and elicited some gasps from the crowd. The scrappy mare kept
Continue Reading...Cornacchia’s Valentine Gives Her An Unforgettable Anniversary Gift At WEF
Looking at the emotion across Rachel Cornacchia’s face following Friday night’s $137,000 CSI3* Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival, you would’ve thought she won the whole thing. In a way she did. In only her second week competing in the international classes at WEF, the 30-year-old Canadian rider took second behind Jessica Springsteen and
Continue Reading...Two Veteran Partnerships And A “Blind Date” Top WCHR Hunter Spectacular
The annual $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular is always a mixed bag of competitors. There are the veteran partnerships who have ribboned at all of the top shows throughout the country, amateurs and juniors competing in their first feature class, and then there are the pairings that just get together for one
Continue Reading...A Day In The Life With: Jordan Lubow
In the Chronicle’s new series, we follow various equine professionals throughout a typical day. In this installment, we asked Jordan Lubow, whom you probably recognize thanks to the incredible athletic efforts of her hunter derby horse Anthemis Z, to walk us through her day. Lubow hails from Bell Canyon, California, and grew up competing in
Continue Reading...Off-Track Standardbreds Get Their Day In The Field
It’s not unusual to see off-track Thoroughbreds in the hunt field, but Monmouth County Hunt (New Jersey) recently welcomed a slightly different group of former racers. The club held a Standardbred Hunt Day on Feb. 2 that attracted trotters and pacers from three states. Participants included first-time foxhunters as well as a few Monmouth County
Continue Reading...Behind the Stall Door With: MTM Outbid
MTM Outbid soared to the top of the leaderboard on Feb. 7 at the Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, winning the $50,000 USHJA International Derby with professional rider Jamie Taylor in the irons. The 10-year-old Holsteiner gelding is no stranger to the derby field, with multiple big wins in the last three years.
Continue Reading...How Diva Makes Every Day Special
Jan Norman meets Diva, an equine therapy horse bringing joy to kids and families at a hospice in South Africa… A beautiful bay mare with long, elegant and expressive ears stood waiting in the paddock. Here was Diva, a wonderful horse that has overcome troubles of her own and is now changing the lives of
Continue Reading...Horse Rescue
We speak to TLAER, a US-based organisation which is training people the world over to help salvage horses in danger… We all worry about how safe our horses might be in the most extreme circumstances. Will it be possible to rescue them should disaster strike? Concerns about the welfare of horses in peril was the
Continue Reading...Horse of the Month: Dalera
We take a closer look at Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl’s wonderful dark bay mare… TSF Dalera BB has booked her rider’s ticket to the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Finals in Las Vegas in April. However, Dalera may be travelling elsewhere. Her rider, Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl is thinking of the Tokyo Olympics for Dalera and possibly taking
Continue Reading...Golden Greats #1: Mark Todd
Two-time Olympic champion Sir Mark Todd looks back at four decades of glory in our new series… It’s now just six months until the start of the 2020 Olympic Games, when the world’s greatest sportsmen and women will come together in Tokyo. To mark the countdown to the Opening Ceremony on July 24, FEI.org begins
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