Erin Davis-Heineking wasn’t looking for a way back into show jumping when her husband, Christian Heineking, suggested she try a new mare in the barn. “Every year at our farm we have a little New Year’s jumping competition; you get on a horse you don’t know, and we have a high jump competition,” Davis-Heineking said.
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In honor of Col. John Russell’s 100th birthday on Feb. 2, we’re looking back at the Living Legend profile of the Olympic show jumper and coach, originally published in the Sept. 19, 2011, issue. LIVING LEGEND: Col. John Russell Is Still Giving Orders In Col. John Russell’s birth year of 1920, Woodrow Wilson was in
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Aug. 30, 2019, started as just another horse show day for Juan Pablo Gnecco. It was the Friday of the Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton, New York, and he was entered in the afternoon’s grand prix qualifier. He stopped to chat with a fellow rider about the track, and they discussed various plans for
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In your riding lessons, have you ever heard your instructor repeat the same correction, over and over, but felt too weak to maintain it? Can you identify aspects of your own riding position or technique that you wish you could improve? Do you ever feel as though no matter how hard you try, certain position
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Georgina Bloomberg credits her exceptional string of horses for her successes over the last several years, but there’s one in particular, Chameur 137, that she points to as the star of the group. “I jumped at the [Longines FEI] World Cup Finals [Sweden] with him last year [finishing 17th],” said Bloomberg, “and it had been
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One summer afternoon in August of 2016, Danielle Ammeson went to bring in her 7-year-old American Warmblood Casino Royale from his paddock at her mother’s home in Sarasota, Florida. As she approached, she saw “Royal” standing motionless on three legs, his right hind hoof elevated. He had a scrape near the hock and was missing
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Simplicity done well was the name of the game on Friday, Jan. 17, at the USHJA Gold Star Clinic at the Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, where 21 of the best riders from the western part of the United States convened for four days of equestrian education and riding instruction. “Flatwork, quite often,
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Multiple medal-winning bay gelding ‘Diddy’ has been retired by US Dressage star Laura Graves… Laura Graves has paid an emotional tribute to her champion horse Verdades after announcing his retirement. She described her ‘Diddy’ as a “great friend” and added that “he fulfilled dreams that I never knew I had” in a heart-rending Instagram post.
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Jill Irving (CAN) and Degas 12 captured the top prize in the first of four FEI Dressage World Cup™ legs set to take place in Wellington (USA) this winter… Irving and her veteran 18-year-old gelding by De Niro impressed the five judges with their freestyle routine set to a montage of music from The Beatles,
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Nadia Aslam caught up with Eventing athlete Imogen Murray to pick her brain about the challenges and joys of the sport she so dearly loves… On a grey and rainy winter’s day in the North of England, you might expect to find the residents of the small village of Willoughby Waterleys curled up in front
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Defending champion Steve Guerdat of Switzerland took the top prize in Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ action on Sunday in Basel, beating out a field of 14 other riders in a hotly contested jump off… Guerdat and his 11-year-old Selle Français mount, Victorio des Frotards, laid down a blistering time to beat midway through the
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YouTube Sensation This Esme headed to the world famous London Olympia Horse show – check out her video below! It’s one of the jewels in the equestrian calendar for any fan of equestrian sport. Or horses, for that matter. Over the course of a week, the best of the best come to London to take
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