Great Britain just may pull off Olympic Gold on home turf! Germany has a narrow lead after cross country eventing ― 124.70 to 130.20 ― the difference of a few show jumping penalties. No one can doubt after Great Britain’s full-throttle performance Monday that they are serious about winning this. In fact, with a rather […]
As a man, he was as unforgettable as the images he created with his camera. Passionate, imaginative, highly technical and unfailingly original — all apply to the picture as well as to photographer Michael J. Marten, who this year died at age 54. A two-time Eclipse Award-winner for his work in Thoroughbred racing, Marten was […]
June 19-July 29 War Horse, Tony Award-winning play comes to Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre. 213-628-2772 or visit www.CenterTheatre.org July 17-22 North American Junior/Young Rider Championships, Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, KY. www.youngriders.org July 18-22 Oregon High Desert Classic Week I J Bar Boy’s Ranch, Bend, OR; USEF Class “AA” hunter-jumper show. Includes $25,000 Grand […]
JULY July 15 Elvenstar July Horse Show, Moorpark. Hunter jumper show. Contact Megan Mallory 805-529-2800, x19; www.elvenstar.com July 13-15 Signature Horse Show at Las Amigas Ernie Howlett Park – Rolling Hills Estates. www.signatureshows.net July 11-15The Event at Rebecca Farm Kalispell, MT. For general information and trade show exhibition, contact Alison Heppner, alison@rebeccafarm.org (406) 253-4666. Begins […]
The Global Champions tour youthquake continued, with Philipp Weishaupt clinching his first Global Champions Tour Grand Prix win in Estoril, Portugal July 14. The 26-year-old German pulled off two brilliant clear rounds on Leoville 2, clocked an unbeatable jump-off time of 44.96 that his boss, Ludger Beerbaum, described as a triumph of “youth over age.” […]
It’s indisputable: with her win yesterday in the $200,000 Queen Elizabeth II Cup, Beezie Madden is the reigning monarch of the Spruce Meadows North American Tournament. The rider from Cazenovia, NY (whose name is also Elizabeth) has had more top placings in FEI classes than any other rider on the circuit and is far and […]
At 21, Nayel Nassar stunned onlookers at the Spruce Meadows North American tournament, beating Olympians and seasoned vets in the $35,000 Progress Energy Cup July 5. Nassar rides for Egypt and is based in Palo Alto, CA, where he is a third-year student at Stanford University studying economics. He was born in Chicago, and raised […]
Call it a Cinderella ending! Lane Clarke, last in the ring on the Irish Sport Horse McLord’s First John, rode off with the blue ribbon at the Langer Equestrian Group’s $30,000 Memorial Day Grand Prix, May 28 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Jenni Martin-McAllister was a close second on Union Jack, and Clarke third […]
“Putting the ‘fun’ back in fundraising” is how CPHA Foundation president George Chatigny described the 8th Annual California Professional Horesmen’s Assn. Bowling Benefit, which raised $4,000 over two rounds on Friday, May 25. The event drew 100 bowlers and their friends to the Pickwick Bowl in Burbank on May 25, and coincided with the Langer […]
On April 12, the equestrian community lost one of its most beloved figures when John Quirk passed away four months shy of his 92nd birthday, August 15. To say he was a horseman is accurate―that aspect of his life is being celebrated at the Del Mar Horse Show Hunter Jumper Week, where a new perpetual […]
