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Jun 6, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Melissa Wright |Mollie Bailey |Amy K. Dragoo |Lindsey Long
Karl Cook compares competing Caracole De La Roque to “lighting a rocket,” and he put her explosive speed to good use in the Rolex Grand Prix of Rome on May 26, when the pair laid down a scorching jump-off to claim the top spot in the class.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Paige Cade |Laura Lemon |Amy K. Dragoo |Lindsey Long
In the 11 years since Gail Ellis of West Coast Equine Partners LLC purchased Saphir, his team hasn’t stopped looking for another horse just like him. The now 18-year-old Hanoverian gelding quickly made himself a barn favorite with his “feisty” personality on the ground and steady persona in the ring.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Melissa Wright |Kimberly Loushin |Lindsay Berreth |Amy K. Dragoo
Eventing at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is likely to look different than it does now, as the Fédération Equestre Internationale works to safeguard the sport’s place in the Games.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lindsay Berreth |Amy K. Dragoo |Lisa Slade |Kimberly Loushin
Six months after the U.S. Eventing Association announced that it would be recognizing the starter level for the 2024 show season, USEA, in conjunction with Equestrian Events Inc. and Mary Fike, announced Thursday that starter level will be included at this year’s USEA American Eventing Championships, to be held Aug. 27-Sept. 1 in Lexington, Kentucky. The championships will offer two starter divisions, open and junior.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Sara Lieser |Amy K. Dragoo |Rose Keller |Lisa Slade
While recovering from a broken scapula in 2017, upper-level eventer Robyn Fisher started browsing the internet and, as she tells it, somehow ended up with three horses out of Europe. After her impulse buys arrived at her Moorpark, California, base, Fisher realized they were all good dressage quality, and she started to fall more in love with the detailed aspects of the first of eventing’s three phases.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Christina Keim |Nicole Mandracchia |Virginia Daffron |Amy K. Dragoo
After 17-year old Raina Swani laid down a solid trip in the junior hunter, 16-17, stake class at the 2023 National Horse Show (Kentucky) aboard Spoken, all that was left to do was watch and wait. She had gone second, with 13 more pairs still to compete after her. “I was praying to God that I didn’t get bumped down to third place,” she said. “On the first day [of the division], I won both classes and then placed third in the hack, so I knew I would be champion.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Virginia Daffron |Ava Stearns |Nicole Mandracchia |Amy K. Dragoo
When 13-year-old Tessa Downey walked up in her paddock boots and garters to try towering 17.2-hand HH Moonshine almost five years ago, the gelding’s trainer was a tad skeptical. “I remember Val [Renihan] looked at my paddock boots and was like, ‘I’m not sure how this is going to go,’ ” Downey, Houston, Texas, recalled with a laugh.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk |Dallas Finn Calvert |a Whisker |Amy K. Dragoo
Phillip Dutton, 60, has ridden in every Olympic Games since 1996 and has contested seven world championships. He won two Olympic team gold medals while riding for Australia and took individual bronze for the United States in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. He is one of the country’s most experienced five-star riders, earning multiple top-10 finishes at the Badminton CCI5*-L (England), Burghley CCI5*-L (England) and Kentucky CCI5*-L, and winning Rolex Kentucky in 2008 aboard Connaught.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lauren Sprieser |Nicole Mandracchia |Melissa Wright |Amy K. Dragoo
The tricky bit about going “behind the stall door” with newly minted Pan American Games gold medalist Jewel’s Goldstrike is that, if you look behind the door bearing his name, you’ll only see an empty space. Unless it’s flooding or temperatures have dipped into the single digits, “Goldie,” who won individual dressage gold with Julio Mendoza Loor last month, will be in his field near Tryon, North Carolina, keeping tabs on farm activity and enjoying life outdoors.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
chronofhorse.com | a Whisker |Amy K. Dragoo |Hannah Sherk |Amber Heintzberger
Netflix and a weekend spent relaxing on the couch isn’t Dr. Kathleen Bertuna’s style. Between working as an obstetrician gynecologist, keeping up with her children’s sports schedules, and competing at the Fédération Equestre Internationale levels, there’s not much time left over to chill. “You’ve got to hold on to your goals and what you want to do, and just white-knuckle it and don’t let go,” said Bertuna, 45, Athens, Ohio.
