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- by Nina FedrizziA lot has changed in recent months for Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB. For the last six years, the two-time, double-gold Olympic dressage medalists and reigning individual champions were singularly focused on winning gold at the highest level of the sport. It’s a mission that they accomplished often and well—first in Tokyo […] The post Bringing Up BB: It’s a Girl For Jessica von Bredow-Werndl’s TSF Dalera BB appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Carley SparksDarragh Kenny’s winter season started late and is already trending higher. The Irish Olympian returned to competition February 13 following a provisional suspension in October for a positive drug test at the FEI European Championships that he attributes to a prescribed ADHD treatment. In the four weeks since, he’s jumped to nine top-three finishes, back-to-back Grand […] The post Darragh Kenny on the “relief of winning” appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Erica Hatfield“Meanwhile TN wants to murder women for having abortions, we’re building concentration camps for undocumented persons, and Epstein’s best pal is president.” I apologize, Dear Reader, for the untimeliness of this column. I got sick—I am still sick. I write this through a fog of illness that pinches my head and makes my eyes water […] The post What the WEF?! Week 8: Modern Melancholia appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Nina FedrizziAs a longtime fan of show jumping, there are few parts of the sport more rewarding than getting to watch your favorite stallions (and sometimes mares) competing against offspring they sired as young horses more than a decade ago. Those of us who watched Emerald and Harrie Smolders competing in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games […] The post The United Touch S Heirs Apparent Have Arrived appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Mackenzie Drazan CookMackenzie Drazan Cook is an amateur equestrian and the wife of American Olympic show jumper Karl Cook. After losing her teenage sister to suicide, Mackenzie founded the nonprofit TEAM and the digital platform MiResource. This is her story. Trigger Warning: This story contains discussions of suicide and disordered eating. Life with my sister, Shelby, was hilarious. She […] The post Mackenzie Drazan Cook: “I call it the Cockroach Club” appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Kassy PerryAs a former member of the National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) National Advisory Board, a UC Davis alum, the parent of a former Division I equestrian athlete, and an avid competitor on the A circuit for the past 50 years, I’ve spent decades watching collegiate equestrian advance through the sheer strength, grit, and ambition of […] The post Op Ed: UC Davis’s Decision to Cut NCAA Equestrian Is a Betrayal of Women Athletes appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Jamie SindellLet me be clear before we begin. I love horses. I love horse people. I am 100 percent one of you. Which is exactly why I feel qualified to say what we are all secretly thinking when life gets expensive, overwhelming, cold, chaotic, or mildly inconvenient: “Maybe I should just sell the horse.” (You said it last winter […] The post Just Sell Me the Horse: 19 Totally Reasonable Reasons to Quit Horse Life appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Nina FedrizziA single rail down became the drop score for Team USA in Round 2 of the Saturday Night Lights CSIO4* Nations Cup during Week 8 of the Winter Equestrian Festival. For the 11th time in a quarter-century—and the second year in a row—the U.S. took a home-turf win in Wellington, ending on a final score of […] The post One Little Ol’ Rail & a Big Win for Team USA in the Wellington 4* Nations Cup appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Editorial StaffSteve Guerdat was a man on a World Cup mission in Helsinki: qualify for the Final. Sitting 20th on the Western European League standings with 29 points ahead of the 13th and final leg in Finland, the former World Cup champion had ground to make up and one last chance to do it. “I really […] The post Steve Guerdat Secures Invite to Fort Worth appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Gretchen LidaI was on a writing retreat in a tourist town, dining with a few generous strangers, when one asked what I was working on. “I’m writing a book about horses,” I told them. The woman next to me smiled enthusiastically and asked, “How do you get your information?” Puzzled, I responded, “Ask the question again so […] The post Speaking to Animals appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Carley SparksMost people can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001 when news broke of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Many have the same vivid recall of Barack Obama being declared the 44th president. Or, on a personal note, of the moment they […] The post The Moment Nina Mallevaey Learned She Cracked the World Top 10 appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Carley SparksMaria von Essen has been knocking at the door of a World Cup win in Gothenburg for three years. On Saturday, it opened. The Swedish rider finished second in the qualifier at Gothenburg Horse Show in both 2024 and 2025 aboard Invoice. The world no. 10 ranked pair climbed the final step in 2026, putting […] The post Maria von Essen’s Invoice Paid in Gothenburg appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Erica HatfieldThis was the week my editor rolled into town. She immediately had me crying alone in the bathroom of a fancy Palm Beach five-star hotel. One can barely help it as a writer, as the word of one’s editor can take the fragile artist-in-the-making from the heights of ecstatic accomplishment to the depths of unproductive […] The post What the WEF?! Week 7: Fights, Five-Stars & Fashion appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Nina FedrizziThe Netherlands’ Willem Greve has been campaigning his longtime partner, the KWPN stallion Grandorado TN N.O.P., since he was jumping the international 5-year-old Young Horse classes back in 2016. This Sunday, a full decade on, the winners of the Dutch Masters in 2022 proved they’ve still got what it takes during the 12th leg of the Longines […] The post Willem Greve’s World Cup Hat-Trick appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Carley SparksThe floodlights at Wellington International cast their familiar glow over the International Ring Saturday night, illuminating a scene that has played out many times before: McLain Ward standing atop the podium, hat in hand, as the American anthem rang out. But for the 50-year-old American Olympian, this moment in the spotlight was cast in the […] The post McLain Ward on the “moments that make us” appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Richard R. GrossIn sports, athletes are often so closely connected with their trainer or coach that the one is indistinguishable without the other. Muhammad Ali and Angelo Dundee. Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers. Pat Summitt with the basketball University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers. John Wooden and UCLA basketball, with his NBA Hall of Fame players […] The post Zenyatta Trainer John Shirreffs, a Remembrance appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Editorial StaffEvery entry is a winner in the Meadow Grove & Friends 1.20m Open Classic, sponsored by Meadow Grove & Friends and benefiting the 501c3 #WeRideTogether. And not just in that warm fuzzy way of community coming together in support of a good cause (though there’s that too). But actually. The fourth annual 1.20m class returns […] The post Try & Lose in This Weekend’s Meadow Grove & Friends 1.20m Open Classic. We Dare You. appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Erica HatfieldNote to readers: Week 6 of WEF is hunter week and my editor said I should mention something about WEF in my What the WEF?! column. So consider that box checked. Moving on… I do not remember exactly what I was upset about. I came home from somewhere in Wellington and could not settle myself. […] The post What the WEF?! Week 6: A Strange & Beautiful Striving appeared first on Horse Network.
- by Erica HatfieldWhen I first decided to become someone who writes about our sport of show jumping, I looked to the famous sportswriters of the early- and mid-century who worked during the years when horse racing and boxing were the United States’ foremost spectator sports. A time pre-television, a time when radio and writing—words—connected people to sport. […] The post Speaking of Death appeared first on Horse Network.