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Jul 12, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Nicole Mandracchia |Molly Sorge |Rose Keller |Aaron Vale
Amateur jumper rider Amy Shafmaster spends most of her time juggling her schedule around riding five show horses, competing in the high amateur jumpers and running her family business. And even for a woman charged with regularly making sure countless pounds of lobster make it from the waters off New Hampshire to the dinner tables of China within a few days, the logistics of riding, working and motherhood can be daunting at times. “Riding helps keep me young,” said the 52-year-old.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Molly Sorge |Aaron Vale |Kimberly Loushin |Mollie Bailey
Mimi Gochman is already an experienced and successful competitor at age 19, but the Brown University student is quick to say she’s not a veteran of the show jumping world she’s turned her attention to in the past few years.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Laura Lemon |Hannah Sherk |Aaron Vale |Kimberly Loushin
This article appears in our annual Readers’ Choice issue, out now. As we do every year, we are offering the digital version free of charge to our online readers and followers. Click here to read the full issue. With the Paris Olympic Games on the horizon, McLain Ward is looking ahead to what would be his sixth Olympics, if he’s selected for the team. Ward, 48, earned Olympic gold with the U.S. team at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Hong Kong Games, and team silver at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Games.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Aaron Vale |Christina Keim |Fly Predators |Nicole Mandracchia
Jennie Ratcliff was 21 and fresh out of nursing school in 1993 when she ran into an acquaintance who was trying to offload a horse called “Big Red.” The person had acquired him from a horse trader and had no firm information about the 16-hand gelding’s past, his breed or even his age, though a vet estimated him to be about 19 at the time.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Laura Lemon |Lisa Slade |Hannah Sherk |Aaron Vale
From a young age, Ellen Ziemer was enthralled by biology. While Punnett squares, the diagrams used to predict genotypes for specific traits, were just a standard part of grade school science classes for most of her classmates, Ziemer found genetics fascinating. So it’s no surprise that breeding horses became a lifelong passion. “I’ve always been fascinated with the curiosity of what you could produce, matching up the traits of the horses,” she said, “and I’ve always loved young animals.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lindsey Long |Hannah Sherk |Nicole Mandracchia |Aaron Vale
British Olympic champion Ben Maher returned to the Winter Equestrian Festival to win the first “Saturday Night Lights” of the season, a year after a fall at the beginning of WEF 2023 sidelined him for the season with a shoulder injury.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lindsey Long |Hannah Sherk |Nicole Mandracchia |Aaron Vale
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced that HH Azur, Double H Farm and McLain Ward’s 18-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare, was voted the 2023 International Horse of the Year, and Paradigm, Meredith Lipke’s 12-year-old warmblood gelding, was voted the 2023 National Horse of the Year by the USEF membership. HH Azur and Paradigm were honored during the SmartPak USEF Horse of the Year Awards Dinner at the USEF Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, on Jan. 13.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk |Nicole Mandracchia |Aaron Vale |Lindsey Long
In 2016, Sarah Griffin received an unexpected text message from Malibu, California. It was professional show jumper Jamie Barge, and she was looking for a groom for her two horses at home and on the road. At the time, Griffin was working with kids and ponies at a stable near Newnan, Georgia, where she grew up. “I would teach lessons and ride all day,” said Griffin.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Nicole Mandracchia |Lindsay Berreth |Aaron Vale |Lindsey Long
When Dorothy “Dorrie” Douglas mounted MTM Pablo on Saturday ahead of the $100,000 Tipperary Equestrian Grand Prix at the World Equestrian Center—Ocala (Florida), she noticed that something felt different about the 11-year-old Hanoverian. Douglas would know: He’s one of her favorites among the horses she trains just down the road from WEC at MTM Farm.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lisa Slade |Hannah Sherk |Aaron Vale |Erin Harty
As far back as Taylor Flury can remember, her mother, Janet Bali, encouraged her daughter’s love of horses and desire to work in the industry. But there was always one caveat: Bali pushed Flury to look beyond her personal aspirations to see the bigger picture and consider her purpose. “When I was younger, and I was like, ‘I want to be a horse professional,’ she was like, ‘Well, what are you actually going to do with your life?
