California Chrome Faces Beholder in Pacific Classic
In a sport like horse racing, there are so many races across the country that the best horses can avoid facing each other until the end of the year....
Meet Cortes ‘C’
Beezie Madden and Cortes 'C' competing at the Kentucky Horse Park in 2012.To get to the Olympics with a horse is a staggering accomplishment: Having the right horse. Making...
France Wins Gold and U.S. Takes Silver in Show Jumping at the Rio Olympics
Yesterday’s first round of team show jumping competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics brought mixed emotions for supporters of the U.S. team. The Americans progressed with no faults on...
Behind-the-Scenes at the Rio Olympic Games Part One: Three-Day Eventing
The Olympic Equestrian Center in the Deodoro region of Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography Bom Dia from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, site of the 2016 Olympic Games....
Riding IS a Sport. Or It Isn’t. Who Cares, Really?
In the previous post in this blog, I talked about some of the ways various non-horsey media outlets attempt to talk about equestrian during the Olympics. One type of...
U.S. Team Tied for the Lead in Show Jumping at the 2016 Rio Olympics
Embed from Getty ImagesTap the arrows on the side of the image above to scroll through the slideshow. Show Jumping at the Rio 2016 Olympics continued today with the second...
