Celebrating Over 32 years!

Gladstone N.J. -- At the 2024 Platinum Performance/USEF Talent Search Finals – East, the second day unfolded with the gymnastics phase at the USET Foundation Headquarters. Phase II tested the skills of the 46 athletes as they navigated a series of...

Gladstone N.J. -- The curtain rose on the 2024 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – East this Friday, as 46 aspiring athletes gathered at the USET Foundation Headquarters to display their skills in the flat phase. In groups...

Gladstone, N.J. – This weekend, young equestrians will compete for top honors at the 2024 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search – East, held at the USET Foundation Headquarters in Gladstone, N.J. Over the course of three days,...

Lexington, Ky . - Please see information below for the selection methods anticipated to be used for the upcoming 2025 FEI World Vaulting Championships for Junior and/or Young Vaulters to be held in Stadl Paura AUT, July 30 – August 3, 2025...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the host locations and dates for the 2024 and 2025 US Equestrian Open of Eventing Qualifier Events. The US Equestrian Open of Eventing will consist of 20 qualifying events around the country leading...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Vejer CSIO3* hosted from October 23-27, 2024, in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain. The team will be led by Chef...

Tryon, N.C. – The Tryon International Equestrian Center hosted the 2024 USEF Combined Driving National Championship for Advanced Ponies last week, welcoming some of the country’s top driving athletes to compete among the full slate of driving...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent the United States at the Longines League of Nations Jumping Final hosted in Barcelona, Spain, from October 3-6, 2024. The team will be led by Chef...

Le Pin au Haras, France – The Defender U.S. Driving Team competed on the sport’s biggest stage last week at the 2024 FEI Driving World Championship for Single Horses held at Haras National du Pin in France. The team finished in 10 th place...

Le Pin au Haras, France – The Defender U.S. Driving Team competed on the sport’s biggest stage last week at the 2024 FEI Driving World Championship for Single Horses held at Haras National du Pin in France. The team finished in 10 th place...

In a bizarrely run rendition of the $201,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes (G2T), Hang the Moon proved best with a scintillating last-to-first victory Oct. 5 at Santa Anita Park.

Fresh from his victory in the Oct. 5 Prix Daniel Wildenstein (G2) at Longchamp, Ramadan shone brightest at Saint-Cloud bringing €1.5 million from Lion Rock Bloodstock. Three other lots brought seven figures at the sale.

BloodHorse's Sean Collins takes you on-site at Keeneland Oct. 5 for the 111th running of the Breeders' Futurity (G1). Experience the race as if you were at Keeneland yourself!

Citizen Bull, third in his grade 1 debut Sept. 8, captured the $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes (G1) Oct. 5 in front-running fashion to complete a Bob Baffert 1-2 finish at Santa Anita Park.

Mother's Day may be annually held in May, but the connections of the Smart Strike mare Truly Together were more than happy to celebrate Oct. 5. Two of the mare's foals, Mouffy and Truly Quality, took home the trophies in graded stakes at Woodbine.

Carl Spackler, a gate-to-wire victor of the Oct. 5 Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes (G1T), will be one of the Americans leading the home team charge in the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T).

Godolphin's Michael Banahan describes an "unbelievable weekend" for Godolphin at Keeneland, winning the Alcibiades (G1) with Immersive and Breeders' Futurity (G1) with East Avenue.

Gina Romantica won the First Lady Stakes (G1T) a second year in a row Oct. 5 as she continues her winning ways on the Keeneland turf while trainer Chad Brown continues his dominance of the mile race for fillies and mares in most spectacular fashion.

Partnership that also owns Santa Anita Oaks (G2) winner Nothing Like You owns Non Compliant, from the first crop of Tiz the Law.

Partnership that also owns Santa Anita Oaks (G2) winner Nothing Like You owns Non Compliant, from the first crop of Tiz the Law.

One of North Carolina’s wild horses recently got herself stuck halfway over a fence. The 1-year-old mare, Amelia, is a member of the wild horses of Corolla who live on the Outer Banks. In attempting to cross a fence she apparently misjudged (youthful inexperience?) and got stuck straddling the rails with her front legs on [...]

The Interior Ministry of Poland has proposed new legislation that would grant dogs and horses serving the police, border guard and fire services the type of retirement they deserve. The legislation grants official status to each working animal and a stipend paid to their new owners to help cover their cost. The law was drafted [...]

June 17, 1875, Saline, Kansas (USA): Our vigilant sheriff captured a horse their by the name of Clark at Bavaria, last evening, and brought him to the jail, late in the night. He had been disturbing horse flesh on Chapman’s creek. The other part of his name was not I.F. There will be a grand [...]

Written by Life Coach, Katherine Jansen, Shepherd’s Knoll Farm I was looking for a topic for the women’s group I lead, and the word of the day in the Daily Word booklet I subscribe to was "Weave". And I love this word. For the actual weavers of the world, I do weave sometimes, using yarn [...]

After the 2020 postponement until October due to the Covid pandemic, this year’s Preakness Stakes returns to its traditional place, 2 weeks after the Kentucky Derby and 3 weeks before the Belmont Stakes. Middle child syndrome certainly does not apply to this year’s middle gem of the Triple Crown series. The public spotlight shines [...]

May 9, 1860, Springfield, Ohio (USA): The Overland Mail Coach, with Lieut. Cogswell, of the USA, Dr. J P Breck, and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, as passengers, and San Francisco dates to the 20th of April, arrived here at 4 P M California news anticipated by the Pony Express. By this arrival we have news [...]

"Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals." ― Milan Kundera The Federation Equestre International (FEI), the international governing body of equestrian sports, recently handed down two rider suspensions and had an earlier suspension set aside on appeal. Brazilian Dressage Athlete Suspended for 3 Years [...]

What is it about horses that we love so much? Their beauty? Their strength? Their soulful eyes that know all our secrets? Of course, the answer is YES. Trying to explain our love of horses to others can be difficult. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that “it’s just something that happens.” Oceana contemplates [...]

In November 2019, a disturbing video was posted to Facebook showing a horse tied and dragged behind a moving truck. As the truck moved forward in the snow, the lead rope became taut. As the horse braced against the pressure its hooves slipped through the snow. The truck then sped up dragging the thrashing [...]

In November 2019, a disturbing video was posted to Facebook showing a horse tied and dragged behind a moving truck. As the truck moved forward in the snow, the lead rope became taut. As the horse braced against the pressure its hooves slipped through the snow. The truck then sped up dragging the thrashing [...]

Western Bloodstock's 2024 Mid-Year Cutting Horse Digital Sale, a timed-only auction on July 20, during the NCHA Summer Spectacular, realized an average of $30,236 on 35 horses sold, up by more than $10,000 on last year.

Western Bloodstock is reaching out with a special auction of stallion seasons to benefit victims of the 2024 Texas Panhandle wildfires. The auction will be held during the Western Bloodstock Mid-Year Cutting Horse Digital Sale. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Working Ranch Cowboys Association Foundation's Crisis Fund.

Triangle Sales, the leader among all-around Western Performance Horse sales, launched 2024 with stellar results at its 41st Winter Sale, held January 25, 26 and 27, at Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City.

Western Bloodstock's 2023 NCHA Futurity Sales concluded with an average of $57,767, while 83 horses sold for $100,000 or more.

Session II of Western Bloodstock's 2023 NCHA Futurity Preferred Breeders Sale, on Friday, December 8, stayed on course with Session I's strong results, and realized an average of $35,596 from 104 horses that actually sold.

High energy and enthusiasm continued on Thursday, December 7, as Day Four of Western Bloodstock's 2023 NCHA Futurity Sales continued with Session 1 of the Preferred Breeders Sale and the Rocking P Ranch Production Sale. Ninety percent of the 157 horses that passed through the ring sold for an average of $36,124, with seven selling for $100,000 or more.

The Evening Session of Western Bloodstock's 2023 NCHA Futurity Sales opened on Wednesday, December 6th to an enthusiastic crowd of bidders, owners, and spectators, who watched as 48 yearlings sold for an average of $91,548.

Western Bloodstock's 2023 NCHA Futurity Cutting Horse Sale, on Wednesday, December 6th, realized a 10% increase in average price over 2022.

Day Two of Western Bloodstock's 2023 NCHA Futurity Sales, on Tuesday, December 5th, put a solid wrap on its NCHA Futurity 2-Year-Old Sessions with a combined average of $82,016 for both Sessions and 49 horses that sold for $100,000 or more.

Day Two of Western Bloodstock's 2023 NCHA Futurity Sales, on Tuesday, December 5th, put a solid wrap on its NCHA Futurity 2-Year-Old Sessions with a combined average of $82,016 for both Sessions and 49 horses that sold for $100,000 or more.