It was almost 20 years ago that the Baxter family purchased 500 acres in the sleepy Central California Coast town of Paso Robles. Where others saw fallow farmland, they saw the potential for international equestrian competition. The team has grown, and the venue has transformed in those nearly 20 years, but the mission remains the
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If you walked past Loreli at the Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, California, and did a double-take, you wouldn’t be alone. After all, it’s not often you see a horse wearing what appears to be a pair of horse ski goggles. But the 13-year-old gelding won’t be hitting the slopes anytime soon, and the
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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
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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
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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
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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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If you’re a senior, playing golf regularly may do more than improve your swing: New research suggests it could reduce your risk of early death. Researchers followed nearly 5,900 adults, 65 and older, for 10 years and found that those who were regular golf players (at least once a month) were more than 8% less
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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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