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
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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
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We’re halfway through our Florida season, and while I certainly don’t have NOTHING to show for it, I also feel like this season is creeeeeeeping by. I’m sure part of that feeling is that we came two weeks earlier than we normally do and are staying two weeks later, so there’s a whole ‘nother month
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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