Category archives for: Jumpers

Clarke McLords It Over Memorial Day Crowd

Lane Clarke cuts a striking figure in his royal blue jacket aboard the bay jumper McLord's First John.

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 […]

The Right Spin

LAEC team at the CPHAF Benefit

“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 […]

Guillon Grabs GCT Blue

French rider Olivier Guillon pilots his bay horse over a jump.

France’s Olivier Guillon and Lord de Theize came out on top at the Global Champions Tour in Wiesbaden, Germany, on May 26, narrowly edging out Germany rider Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Bella Donna 66, the horse she hopes to take to the Olympics. The two went head-to-head in a jump-off in the final speed test of […]

Skelton GCT Hamburg Champ

Nick Skelton and Big Star soar over a jump.

British rider Nick Skelton and Big Star produced electrifying double clear rounds in Hamburg May 19 to win one of the toughest Grand Prix of the GCT season so far. Course designer Frank Rothenberger predicted a seriously challenging 1.60m CSI5* competition in Germany and after two rounds of world class show jumping, the jump off […]

John Quirk Remembered

John Quirk smiles for the camera in a grassy field.

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 […]

Ward Retires Sapphire

McLain Ward and Sapphire in the colorful 2008 Olympic show jumping ring.

McLain Ward announced Monday that he is retiring his Olympic mount Sapphire, who helped bring home the Gold in 2004 and 2008. The Belgian Warmblood mare is 17 this year, and sat out most of the 2011 season following a right front ligament injury sustained at the Winter Equestrian Festival. “As I’ve said before, if […]

Maher the Star at GCT Spain

Ben Maher and Tripple X on course in Valencia, Spain.

Great Britain topped the charts on the second leg of the Global Champions Tour in Valencia, Spain, May 4-6, with Ireland coming in second. The nations took prime podium spots at the GCT Grand Prix of Spain, with GBR’s Ben Maher jumping to victory on Tripple X III in a fast, clear 41.35. Michael Whitaker […]

Fellers Flex Time at Del Mar

Rich Fellers and Flexible soar over a giant oxer.

The fact that Helen McNaught and Caballo topped the leaderboard with eight faults until the 12th of 20 riders went says it all about Marina Azevedo’s course for the $100,000 Hermés Grand Prix of Del Mar, May 5 at the Del Mar National Horse Show.  But it was Rich Fellers and Flexible that carried the […]

John Quirk: A Gallery of Life

John Quirk and Tish Quirk

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 […]

HITS bows $1 Million Grand Prix in Thermal

Duncan McFarlane and Mr. Whoopy jump before a packed house at HITS NY.

  We’d call him the $2 million man, except he is priceless! HITS president and CEO Tom Struzzieri is giving the U.S. its second seven-figure grand prix, the Thermal $1 Million, to cap the West Coast’s winter season, falling at the end of the Dessert Circuit in Thermal, CA, beginning in 2013. The class will […]

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