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Horse Illustrated readers attend shows and competitions in a variety of disciplines. If you want to keep up with news from major horse events and learn how to prepare your horse for an event, then enjoy this category within our archives. Topics include articles from competitors in various disciplines, winners of big events (e.g., national championships in various disciplines), ways to make competing fun, grooming for show-ring success, how to compete and maintain balance in life, how to showcase your horse at an event the best you can, and so much more. When you are an equestrian competitor, regardless of at what level, you are part of a unique lifestyle.

U.S. Eventing Team Finishes in Sixth Place at Conclusion of Team Competition at Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with All Three Combinations in the Top 25 Individually
U.S. Eventing Team Finishes in Sixth Place at Conclusion of Team Competition at Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with All Three Combinations in the Top 25 Individually

August 2, 2021

The US Eventing Team finished in sixth place out of 14 nations on the final day of competition with show jumping at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and ended the competition with a team total of 125.80 faults. Doug Payne and Vandiver added four jumping faults to their overall score...

HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Team USA Moves Up After Eventing Cross-Country Phase
HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Team USA Moves Up After Eventing Cross-Country Phase

August 1, 2021

Enjoy our eventing cross-country photo gallery from the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with leading rider after cross-country Oliver Townend, and Team USA’s Boyd Martin, Phillip Dutton, and Doug Payne. Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class (GBR) Olliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class of Great Britain lead on a score of 23.60 after...

U.S. Eventing Team Delivers Three Strong Cross-Country Rounds to Improve Team Standing Ahead of Final Phase
U.S. Eventing Team Delivers Three Strong Cross-Country Rounds to Improve Team Standing Ahead of Final Phase

The US Eventing Team made strong work of Derek Di Grazia’s cross-country track at Sea Forest Cross Country Course in the middle of Tokyo Bay, with all three combinations crossing through the finish line with no jumping penalties. Doug Payne and Vandiver led off the team as the third combination...

Tokyo Takeaways #2: U.S. Dressage Takes Team Silver, Dujardin Makes Olympic History, First Look At The Cross-Country Course, How Heat Is Affecting The Horses
Tokyo Takeaways #2: U.S. Dressage Takes Team Silver, Dujardin Makes Olympic History, First Look At The Cross-Country Course, How Heat Is Affecting The Horses

July 31, 2021

Welcome to Tokyo Takeaways by StreamHorseTV! In this series, StreamHorseTV will be talking Tokyo Equestrian with the lovely and knowledgeable Catie Staszak, international show jumping commentator, multimedia sports journalist, and CEO of Catie Staszak Media. We will provide discussion, insight and commentary around all the action happening on the ground...

Boyd Martin and Tsetserleg Score a 31.1 to Round Out the Dressage Phase for U.S. Eventing Team at Tokyo 2020
Boyd Martin and Tsetserleg Score a 31.1 to Round Out the Dressage Phase for U.S. Eventing Team at Tokyo 2020

Boyd Martin and Tsetserleg served as the final combination of the three-man team of the US Eventing Team to ride down the centerline for their dressage test at the Equestrian Park in Tokyo, Japan, receiving a 31.1 from the Ground Jury to secure the team’s eighth place standing heading into...

HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Eventing Dressage Concludes on Day 7
HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Eventing Dressage Concludes on Day 7

It was another hot, humid Olympic day in Tokyo, and it was time for Boyd Martin to show off his dressage skills for Team USA. But July 31 also happens to be German eventing star Michael Jung’s birthday. Today he celebrated his 39th by topping the leaderboard on the final...

Doug Payne and Phillip Dutton Lay Foundation for U.S. Eventing Team on First Day of Dressage Competition at the Tokyo Olympics
Doug Payne and Phillip Dutton Lay Foundation for U.S. Eventing Team on First Day of Dressage Competition at the Tokyo Olympics

July 30, 2021

The first day of dressage competition for the US Eventing Team has concluded at Equestrian Park in Tokyo, Japan, with the team currently sitting in ninth heading into the final grouping of combinations. The U.S. Eventing Team drew fourth in the order out of 15 teams and sent out their...

HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Eventing Dressage Begins on Day 6 of Tokyo Olympics Competition
HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Eventing Dressage Begins on Day 6 of Tokyo Olympics Competition

Today in competition at the the Baji Koen Equestrian Park during the Tokyo Olympics, the host country of Japan hosted the first two sections of the dressage phase of eventing competition. One session was in the morning and another in the evening today. And then, a third and final session...

HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Eventing First Horse Inspection
HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Eventing First Horse Inspection

July 29, 2021

As the dressage contingent packs to leave for home, the eventing competition got under way today at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with the first horse inspection. Seventy-six horses were presented to the eventing ground jury, including four from the U.S.A. and one from Canada. The reserve horses are also...

HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Grand Prix Freestyle Dancing In the Sand
HI Tokyo Olympics Daily Update: Grand Prix Freestyle Dancing In the Sand

A healthy breeze forced the flags to attention in the Baji Koen Equestrian Park last evening as the top 18 horse-and-rider pairs in the dressage competition at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 took their turns dancing in the sand in the freestyle. Perhaps leftover from the typhoon that made landfall...