One of my best friends and I share the same passion: horses. We both started riding lessons together at the same time, got our first horses within a year of each other, and, not surprisingly, settled on our horse farms within the same time period. [...]
My sister, Kim, got married last May, on Black Eyed Susan Day (BESD), to be exact. BESD is held at Pimlico Racecourse the Friday before the Preakness Stakes and is for fillies only. Kim’s colors were black and yellow, and a very subtle racehorse theme [...]
How rider Pat Bennett turned ALS into a diagnosis for not giving up No one knows how long they have. That’s what Pat Bennett’s doctor told her as she sat in a quiet medical office, staring straight ahead as the careful explanation of her diagnosis [...]
[Columbus, Ohio] After years of steadily climbing membership, the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) has reached a significant milestone. With time left before the membership application deadline, 10,198 young riders-ages 12-19-have enrolled for the 2014-2015 season. In 2002, the IEA started with 175 riders on 13 teams [...]
Have you ever wondered how show jumping developed in the United States? Long before Devon was a (equestrian) household name, there was the Chagrin Valley PHA Horse Show near Cleveland, Ohio. Home to the Cleveland Grand Prix, Chagrin Valley was home to the inaugural and [...]
Thoroughbred Charities of America is pleased to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual TCA Youth Essay Contest. Mary Eddy, 16, of Wilton, New York and Kayla Urbasik, 14, of Ontario, Canada have been named co-winners of the contest. The contest was open to recipients [...]
American Lauren Hester Learns the Ropes and Returns to Rancho Santa Fe Rancho Santa Fe, CA - September 29, 2014 - To further her dreams of one day representing the United States in the Olympics, American Lauren Hester had relocated from Rancho Santa Fe, California, to [...]
The Central Park Horse Show and $210,000 Central Park Grand Prix, which takes place this afternoon in the middle of America’s largest city, will bring some of the most pampered, high-caliber equine athletes straight into the middle of a humming metropolis. But when those horses [...]
No matter the size, you can always count on the air to be thick with anticipation at a horse show. I found that atmosphere last weekend inside a small indoor arena tucked into a lush hillside in Ireland, where accented voices sounded like music to my [...]
In a recent trip to my family’s cabin near Lake Tahoe, CA, I found myself huffing and puffing up a nearly vertical climb. The cabin’s water spring source sits approximately 2,000 feet straight up a mountain, and when it needs maintenance, there is no way [...]