Every day this week I’ve started and ended my day in the press room for the 2015 Longines FEI World Cup in Las Vegas. Amidst the hustle and bustle of national and foreign press agencies, we at Horse & Style Magazine staked out our spot [...]
It must have felt so good to finally step onto that middle step of the awards podium. Steve Guerdat has been the long-suffering bridesmaid to more than one other riders’ victory ceremony at the FEI World Cup Finals; in the nine years that he’s been trying [...]
There's no stronger indication that a course will prove tricky than concerned comments straight from the riders' mouths. And for Friday night's Round Two of the Longines FEI World Cup Jumping Final, competitors vocally realized, in the midst of the course walk, that the track [...]
Here in Las Vegas, my luck is running high. Not only do I get to attend my first World Cup Finals ever but I am going as a Horse & Style Magazine Social Media Intern. I have been working with Horse & Style Magazine, creating online [...]
When 19-year-old Bertram Allen rider and his grey mare Molly Malone V beat out Thursday's impressive field of 39 other horse-and-rider pairs, it tempted thoughts and remarks to credit the win to a little luck – both the Irish and the beginner's kinds. But while this [...]
It is upon us! On Thursday, April 16th, Round One of the 2015 Longines FEI World Cup Final of Show Jumping begins, thus kicking off a week of intense competition between the best riders in the world. The World Cup Final is perhaps one of [...]
It’s not everyday that a rider enters the world stage as a rookie and gallops out the winner. But in one round at this summer’s Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, that’s exactly what Bertram Allen did. The 19-year-old from County Wexford, Ireland, could have [...]
A hugely valuable cargo was loaded onto the Qatar Airways B777 chartered freighter aircraft departing Schiphol Airport in The Netherlands at 05.55 CEST today (Saturday 11 April). “We estimate there’s about €150 million worth of horses on the flight,” says Tim Dutta, the man in [...]