Tag: Horse

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

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

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

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.

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