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Meet Your Devon Junior Weekend Hunter Champions

Meet Your Devon Junior Weekend Hunter Champions Devon, Pa.—May 27 Through the hustle and bustle of the Devon Horse Show & Country Fairgrounds, ponies and horses alike capped their weekends with tricolors. Here are the junior and pony riders that bested the best this year where champions m...

From The Magazine: When Your Grand Prix Horse Becomes Your Leadline Mount

From The Magazine: When Your Grand Prix Horse Becomes Your Leadline Mount Laura Linback’s 2016 season started out just the way she wanted. She won a slew of jumper classes during the HITS Ocala circuit in Florida, including the circuit title in the medium amateur- owner division and multiple grand prix ribbons. But on...

An Open Letter to the Little Girl Who Loves Horses

An Open Letter to the Little Girl Who Loves Horses Oftentimes in our riding careers, we lose touch with our beginnings and forget that little girl who fell in love with horses. Even if you began riding later in life, there is something so pure and innocent about our relationship with horses, we often become child-like in our enjoyment and appreciati...

Newly Crowned Longines FEI World Cup™ Champion McLain Ward Moves to World Number One - Phelps Sports

Newly Crowned Longines FEI World Cup™ Champion McLain Ward Moves to World Number One - Phelps Sports McLain Ward (USA), the newly crowned Longines FEI World Cup™ champion and two-time Olympic team gold medallist, has reclaimed the world number one spot in the Longines Rankings. “It is always a great honour to be number one. It reflects the consistency at the top level that we all strive for. Being…

Where Did HH Azur Come From?

Where Did HH Azur Come From? Just how did super-mare HH Azur find her way to McLain Ward? We found out from her breeder, Nathalie Beaufort of Belgium. You can read all about why Ward thinks HH Azur is special in the Feb. 6 American Horses In Sport issue of The Chronicle of the H...

Ward Leads After First Leg Of FEI Longines World Cup Jumping Final

Ward Leads After First Leg Of FEI Longines World Cup Jumping Final Omaha, Neb.—Mar. 30 What’s the most difficult thing about the first day of the FEI Longines World Cup Jumping Final? If you ask McLain Ward, it’s simple—getting through the opening speed round. “I actually asked Ludger Beerbaum, th...

Show Jumpers Get Going In World Cup Warm-up Round

Show Jumpers Get Going In World Cup Warm-up Round Omaha, Neb.—March 29 The riders in the FEI World Cup Finals got into the ring in the CenturyLink Center arena for training rides today. The dressage riders got to tour the arena in groups of three and then the jumping riders got 90 secon...

Plane carrying World Cup horses arrives in Omaha Saturday after 11-hour, 4,400-mile flight

Plane carrying World Cup horses arrives in Omaha Saturday after 11-hour, 4,400-mile flight Horses competing in an international equestrian championship in Omaha are expected to arrive at the CenturyLink center around soon.

One To Watch: Isabella Baxter Upped Her Game This Winter By Being Interested In More Than Winning

One To Watch: Isabella Baxter Upped Her Game This Winter By Being Interested In More Than Winning It was quite a way to end an amazing opportunity. On the way home to Missouri from showing for the first time at the Winter Equestrian Festival (Fla.), Isabella Baxter won the high junior/amateur-owner jumper classic on March 19 during the Gulf Coast...

Brooke Posey Dies In Car Accident On Her Way To Gulfport Horse Show

Sending our prayers to the Posey family and everyone involved.

Brooke Posey Dies In Car Accident On Her Way To Gulfport Horse Show Brooke Posey, a 17-year-old rider, died March 16 in a multi-vehicle accident on her way to the Harrison County Fairgrounds & Equestrian Center in Gulfport, Miss. Posey was competing in the final weekend of the Gulf Coast Winter Series. Posey w...

Letter From the Editor: Be Like Beezie | HORSE NATION

Letter From the Editor: Be Like Beezie | HORSE NATION What a world it would be if we all embodied Beezie Madden. I've never met a horse person who doesn't like Beezie Madden. (That's not to say that such peop...

Haunted By X's and O's

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Haunted By X's and O's Horse people know the kind of body language horses use to mean “Go away!” A pinned ear, a lifted head, a shift of the hip or a hind leg lifted slightly, perhaps along with a tail swish, means: “Leave me alone.” We all have seen the classic equine “snake face” (what we call in humans Continued

Cherry Knoll Farm Announces Retirement of Olympic Gold Medalist Cedric

Cherry Knoll Farm Announces Retirement of Olympic Gold Medalist Cedric Olympian Laura Kraut and Margaret Duprey of Cherry Knoll Farm have announced the retirement of Cedric, Kraut's Olympic partner. The 19-year-old Holsteiner gelding (Chambertin 3–Cortina, Carolus LL) is owned by Cherry Knoll Farm.

On the Injured List: Common Problems for Show Horses

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On the Injured List: Common Problems for Show Horses Here are a few things you should know about some common injuries in hunters, jumpers and equitation horses.

Six Reasons to Stay Away From Draw Reins

Six Reasons to Stay Away From Draw Reins When canvasing equestrian-related social media, it appears that draw-reins are quite fashionable again. And every “like” says “regression” rather than “retro.” After all, it has been 9 years since the publication of the controversial book Tug of War, by Dr. Gerd Heuschmann, confronted modern horse t...

Student Bests Teacher In $216,000 Longines FEI World Cup Jumping Palm Beach Masters

Student Bests Teacher In $216,000 Longines FEI World Cup Jumping Palm Beach Masters Nayel Nassar and Lordan laid down a jump off so lightning fast, even Nassar's former trainer and U.S. power house Laura Kraut couldn't catch him! Photo by Ann Glavan.

It's Never The Horse's Fault

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It's Never The Horse's Fault I always think that those who own and ride horses are in this sport because they love horses. Unfortunately, it’s not true. I’ve even overhead trainers telling their clients that horses are just farm animals, like cattle. It's so sad to me that people don’t really understand how individual every hor...

I Can't Teach You How to Be a Horse Person

I Can't Teach You How to Be a Horse Person I can teach you a lot of things, but I can’t teach you how to be a horse person. At the end of the day, no matter how much information I give you in a lesson, no matter how many theory books you read, no matter how many hours you spend surfing the web to Continued

Old Barn Buddies

Old Barn Buddies Every morning, Donnie MacAdams wakes up before dawn and heads downstairs to check on his roommates and deliver breakfast. It has been his routine for the past eight years when he moved into an apartment above a horse barn in Randolph Center, Vermont. The barn’s eldest resident is a retired standardb...

Learning to Fall

Learning to Fall The truck lurched. Then again. My stomach jolted to my throat. We heard a loud bang, and the truck swerved. “What was that?” I bolted upright, peering over at Dad in the dim light. He surveyed the traffic through his side mirrors. A car passed, then slowed and honked. The driver yelled, waving his a...

I Think My Pony May Be Magic

To all our pony kids at heart

I Think My Pony May Be Magic I think my pony may be magic...

Jitterbug's 2016 Letter To Santa

To get everyone through the final countdown and last minute Christmas shopping, here's some holiday humor

Jitterbug's 2016 Letter To Santa For the fifth year in a row I am writing in hopes of catching you before you and your team of eight Thoroughbreds arrive at my Human’s house. We have long enjoyed a good working relationship, as I first came to you in order to set the record straight about my own behavior throughout the year and lat...

Large barn fire kills nearly two dozen horses in Lexington

Sending thoughts and prayers to those at Mercury Equine Center having to face this horrible tragedy

Large barn fire kills nearly two dozen horses in Lexington A large barn fire may have killed multiple horses.

Get Ready to Cry Tears of Joy Over Purina’s Holiday Commercial ‘Sam’ | HORSE NATION

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5 Horsey Commercials Guaranteed to Put You in the Holiday Spirit

5 Horsey Commercials Guaranteed to Put You in the Holiday Spirit It’s almost unfathomable, but the holidays are here again. It’s time to scour those horse catalogues for all the gear you absolutely don’t need! But if you have a moment to spare from your wish list making and wish granting this season, I suggest you let these horsey holiday commercials make you smi...

Hunter Holloway Completes Stellar Junior Career with ASPCA Maclay Championship Win

Hunter Holloway Completes Stellar Junior Career with ASPCA Maclay Championship Win Hunter Holloway was crowned the 2016 ASPCA Maclay National Champion pictured with the Don Stewart team, her family and the National Horse Show Committee. Photo

Congratulations to Hunter Holloway and the team at Equi-Venture FARM on another huge win in the equitation ring. You continue to make us proud with all of your amazing accomplishments.

Congratulations to Hunter Holloway for winning the 2016 ASPCA Maclay National Championships aboard C'est La Vie at the Canadian Pacific National Horse Show. Read the Top 10 results and check back later for the full story: http://www.phelpssports.com/viewarticle.php?id=10014798&prv=1

ASPCA Maclay Finals 2016: LIVE UPDATES!

ASPCA Maclay Finals 2016: LIVE UPDATES! Maria Hackney will be the first rider on course for the 2016 ASPCA Maclay National Championship, which kicks off at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. Keep checking back for more live updates!

Mackenzie Altheimer and Emperador Work Their Way To A Win At National Horse Show

Congratulations to Mackenzie Altheimer and everyone at Mechlin Farm on this win

Mackenzie Altheimer and Emperador Work Their Way To A Win At National Horse Show

Congrats to Hunter Holloway-Schuknech

Hunter Holloway of Topeka, Kans,, has a pat for her horse, Any Given Sunday, after winning the Washington Equitation Finals last night. She had been second and third in previous years and was determined to come in first this time. ,
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