Canada will be represented in show jumping at the 2012 Olympics in London by a team that includes veterans Eric Lamaze, Ian Millar and Jill Henselwood, and newcomer Tiffany Foster. Yann Candele is the alternate. Foster, who turns 28 this month, is the only Olympic debutante in the bunch. She began training with Lamaze in […]
Show jumper Margie Engle is expected to be released from the hospital today following surgery on her right leg. Engle broke her ankle and the fibula on June 28 when she fell off on course in a 1.30m WPTZ News Channel 5 class at the Lake Placid Horse Show in Lake Placid, NY. “He misjudged […]
Olympic veteran McLain Ward (USA) and Rothchild posted two clear rounds to win the $35,000 PwC Cup, a 1.60m FEI class at the Spruce Meadows North American Tournament, July 5. The course, designed by Michel Villancourt (CAN), had 15 jumping obstacles and 495 meters of track. This win, aboard the 11 year old Warmblood gelding, […]
German dressage rider Matthias Rath has withdrawn himself and his champion mount Totilas from consideration for the 2012 Olympics. The announcement was made today at the CDIO Aachen, where the duo missed its second Olympic selection trial. Rath, 27, has been suffering from mononucleosis. Totilas was the 2010 Reem Acra World Cup Dressage winner with […]
The King County medical examiner’s office in Seattle says Olympic equestrian Amy Tryon died of an accidental drug overdose, the Associated Press reports. KING-TV reports the medical examiner’s report says she died of an acute combined opiate overdose, including Oxycodone. The 42-year-old former firefighter and eventing champion died April 12. Tryon rode for the U.S. […]
Anyone who wants to evoke reactions of wincing and pain need only ask about the price of hay. Since 2009, prices have increased an estimated 25-30%, according to a survey of feed store and stable owners, and horsekeepers are feeling the pain. “Soon developers won’t need to lobby politicians to legislate horses out of Los […]
Brian Hafner of Penngrove, CA, claimed the National Young Adult Brentina Cup Dressage Championship at the Festival of Champions in Gladstone, NJ, on June 17. The event marked the 23-year-old’s first National Championship. He closed the deal Sunday riding his own and Rebecca Hafner’s Lombardo LHF to a score of 69.860% in the FEI Young […]
Today’s USEF ranked list for the U.S. Olympic reveals who got their tickets punched for London 2012: Rich Fellers, Beezie Madden, Reed Kessler, McLain Ward and Charlie Jayne are poised to ship out as the U.S. Show Jumping Team. Sitting at No.’s 4 Ward and Antares F have Jayne and Chill RZ breathing down their […]
The Press Club of Long Island presented equestrian journalist Diana De Rosa with its prestigious Phil Spahn Award at the group’s annual awards dinner. The Phil Spahn award is presented to a PCLI member who has demonstrated outstanding service to journalism, PCLI or to the community. For the past three years De Rosa has been […]
The North American Junior and Young Rider Championship Zone 10 team finals took place at the Blenheim June Classic I, June 6-10 at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park in San Juan Capistrano. Both Junior and Young Riders rode towards a cumulative high point standing over the course of the week. By Sunday, the top […]
