Thursday was another marathon day for show jumping, vaulting, and para-dressage at the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. No medals were awarded in jumping or para-dressage, but vaulting awarded its medals for the pas de deux competition after...
When a horse travels heavily on his forehand or feels like a wheelbarrow tipping forward when you ride him, it can help to practice exercises that help him lift upward with the base of his neck, where it connects...
Show jumping is the most popular international equestrian sport, and it kicked off in earnest today with 124 horse-and-rider pairs taking their shot at the first competitive round of the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. This initial round...
Two new disciplines started today at the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. Para-dressage took over the Tryon Arena while vaulting moved in to the indoor arena where reining took place last week.
Holding on to Gold
Para-dressage is divided into...
At the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018, three-day eventing took five days.
The biggest competitions in the sport tend to take four days to complete all three phases, since dressage tends to require two days. At Tryon, former-hurricane Florence...
Day four of the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018 had riders, spectators and officials keeping an eye on the sky as Hurricane Florence started moving in from the coastal Carolinas. But the cross-country phase of eventing and the...
It was all dressage, all the time on day two of the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. Dressage riders competed in the Grand Prix Special in the US Trust Arena while the second half of the three-day eventing...
Some of the most successful riders in the sport took their turns during the second day of dressage competition at the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. Defending champion, Charlotte Dujardin of Great Britain, was on the schedule with...
The first day of the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018 started with some problems in the endurance race but ended with a successful team effort in the reining arena.
False Start, Early Finish
The endurance ride was the first competitive...
Picture this: You and your horse have taken a break from working on dressage in the arena and have gone on a long trail ride. Your horse has been alert and forward, but loose and relaxed throughout the ride....