August 1, 2021

Showjumping at the Tokyo Olympics

The three-rider no-drop-score format for showjumping at the Olympic Games is one of the big questions of Tokyo 2020, following a season bereft of team competitions thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.
July 31, 2021

Tokyo’s Olympic Cross-Country

US eventing course designer Derek di Grazia has spent the past five years helping take “a big piece of open ground with a lot of trees on it” and turning it into an Olympic class cross-country.
July 31, 2021

A Lusitano Honor Guard

Portugal welcomed their dressage home with an honor guard of Lusitano riders. No, Rodrigo Torres didn’t win a medal in Tokyo, but he rode a Lusitano stallion, the pride of Portugal, a horse with a history that is entwined with the country.
July 30, 2021

The Charge of the Light Brigade

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
July 29, 2021

Tokyo Olympic Dressage Champions: Jessica von Bredow-Werndl & TSF Dalera

Everything about the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been a journey into the unknown. But there was a ring of familiarity combined with spirit of great sport when Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl claimed the Individual Dressage title with the lovely mare TSF Dalera at Baji Koen Equestrian Park tonight where […]
July 28, 2021

Germany Wins Olympic Dressage Team Gold

Germany won Dressage Team gold with a masterclass from Dorothee Schneider, Isabell Werth and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl at Tokyo 2020.
July 26, 2021

The Cost of Horses

Last week, Wan Ming Ong wrote an eloquent and moving piece on her blog Wan Ming’s Wandering and Wonderings, about Saying Goodbye to horses you love.  She lays out why sometimes it is better to euthanize an old horse that can no longer work, than send the horse into an […]
July 19, 2021

Rage Against the Dying of the Light

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ~ Dylan Tomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.