CELEBRATING OVER 31 YEARS!

Barcelona, Spain – The NetJets U.S. Jumping Team accomplished the first goal set for their week of jumping in Barcelona, punching their ticket to Sunday’s final round of the 2023 Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final. The top eight teams...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian has announced the opening of the Dressage Development coaching position following Charlotte Bredahl’s decision to step down from her role in the coming year. Bredahl is committed to working with her replacement...

Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce a new partnership with British brand LeMieux, globally recognized for its outstanding technical horse and rider wear, with a focus on style. LeMieux is the Official Horse Boots Sponsor of US...

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce that the 2024 Robert Dover USEF Horsemastership Clinic Week (RDHCW) will take place January 3-7, 2024, at the Adequan ® Global Dressage Festival showgrounds in Wellington, Fla. Twenty athletes...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – The 2023 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – West concluded on Sunday at the Blenheim International Jumping Festival with Phases III and IV. The youth athletes rode a jumper-style course...

Mill Spring, N.C. – The cones phase brought an exciting weekend to a close at the Tryon Fall CDE, which hosted the 2023 USEF Combined Driving National Championships for intermediate divisions. Athletes and their horses and ponies competed in the...

Sarah Reitz and Fferm Gwenffrwd Onyx Star. ©Leslie Potter/US Equestrian Mill Spring, N.C. – Sunny skies and mild temperatures greeted competitors at the Tryon Fall CDE on marathon day as the national champion contenders in the intermediate...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – Competition continued Saturday for the 2023 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – West with Phase II, the gymnastic phase. The youth athletes competed in front of judges Linda Hough and...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – Competition got underway at the 2023 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – West with Phase I, the flat phase. The field of 21 youth athletes had their first chance to demonstrate their...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – Competition got underway at the 2023 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals – West with Phase I, the flat phase. The field of 21 youth athletes had their first chance to demonstrate their...

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Woodward Stakes at Belmont at the Big A.

Racing was canceled Sept. 29 at Aqueduct Racetrack and Meadowlands due to significant rainfall forecast to create hazardous weather in New York and New Jersey. Meadowlands also canceled racing Sept. 30.

Building upon a successful launch last year, the second Horse Racing Women's Summit, taking place Sept. 28 at Santa Anita Park, took on some of the most challenging issues facing racing.

The pinhooking wheel turned smoothly for the vendors of two of the most expensive fillies sold during the first session of the Goffs Orby Book 2 Sale on Sept. 28, when graduates of the company's November Foal Sale rewarded their investors handsomely.

Impressive filly Gala Brand tops the Miss Grillo Stakes (G2T) while Todd Pletcher saddles a strong duo in the Pilgrim Stakes (G2T) Oct. 1 at Belmont at the Big A.

During the quarterly Kentucky Derby Museum Board meeting Sept. 15, 2023, four new board members and a new board chair were unanimously approved.

Forty-three yearlings sold produced gross sales of $607,800, which is up 37% from last year's gross of $443,600 spent on 40 yearlings.

Spendthrift Farm announced the multiple leading sire's fee Sept. 28, along with the majority of the fees for its roster of 26 stallions. Fees are to be determined for Arabian Lion, Maximus Mischief, Mitole, Omaha Beach, Vino Rosso, and Zandon.

BloodHorse Daily is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown season by tapping Lenny Shulman's wonderful look back at each of his 1973 races on the calendar dates of those events.

BloodHorse Daily is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown season by tapping Lenny Shulman's wonderful look back at each of his 1973 races on the calendar dates of those events.

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 [...]

Leading cutting horse breeder Slate River Ranch, home of 2014 Horse of the Year Junie Wood and 2021 NCHA Open Futurity Champion Janie Wood, will hold their Landmark Broodmare and Yearling Sale at the ranch in Weatherford, Texas, on October 6, 2023

Live streamed on Saturday, July 22, during the NCHA Summer Spectacular, the 2023 Mid-Year Cutting Horse Sale established a digital performance horse sales high bar with a top five average $41,600.

Nu Rollz Royce, a yearling filly by Rollz Royce, topped Session III of the NCHA Futurity Preferred Breeders Sale at $335,000. She was consigned by Alan Chappell and purchased by Steve Martin, Brenham, Tex.

Happened In Denver, by Metallic Cat, topped Session II at $130,000. The red roan yearling colt, bred by Waco Bend Ranch, was consigned by Gale Force Quarter Horses and sold to Kathleen Moore, Madill, Okla.

The yearling Dual Rey colt Reynowned, bred and consigned by Holmes Performance Horses/Linda Holmes, sold for $240,000 to 3T Ranch/Pat Taylor, Pilot Point, Tex.

CR Catty Reys, by Dual Reyish, consigned by Billy Wolf, brought The Evening Session’s highest-winning bid of $985,000 from Rocking P Ranch, Fort Worth, Texas.

Hott Twice, consigned by Wes Ashlock, as agent for Cooper Smith, brought a record $1,500,000 bid from Terry Green at the NCHA Futurity Sales on December 6.

Bidding was spirited on the first day of the 2022 NCHA Futurity Sales where Cuteish Desire, a Dual Reyish daughter bred by Rockin 5 Ranch, commanded the all-time record price of $1,150,000 for a 2-year-old cutting horse at public auction.

The 2022 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales concluded on Saturday, October 22 with Session II of the Select Yearling and Broodmare Sale, where three yearlings sold for $100,000 or more.

The 2022 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales concluded on Saturday, October 22 with Session II of the Select Yearling and Broodmare Sale, where three yearlings sold for $100,000 or more.