Anneliese Kannow

Apr 3, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Sophie Coffey |Jamie Sindell |Anneliese Kannow |Lauren Sprieser

A rhythmic knocking stirred me from sleep: Clunk, clunk, clunk. Pause. Clunk, clunk. I fumbled for my phone and poked at the screen, squinting at the offending glow: 3:30 a.m.My sleep-fogged brain tried to make sense of the sound. It wasn’t coming from inside the house, nor the front door. It wasn’t coming from the road. The noise was echoing, instead, from the far end of the property. From the barn. The barn! I sat up in bed and patted the nightstand for my glasses.

Apr 2, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Anneliese Kannow |Lauren Sprieser |Gracie McDuffe

Dear Testa,First, I want to give you a huge welcome to our family. We may not be extremely large, but you join a wonderful human counterpart and three pretty fantastic cats in this journey through life. While you won’t ever meet the felines, I’m certain that very soon my husband will introduce himself with cookies, carrots or whatever horse treats make you the happiest.

Mar 29, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Anneliese Kannow |Mary O'Connor |Melissa Wright

Nero died on a Tuesday. In the dirt, fallen heavily on his side, in a row between two barrack-like stalls where he had been quarantined. The vet punctured his thick skin and injected the orange liquid from a large syringe. Nero fell to the ground as his heart stopped. My horse was out of pain, I told myself, but death is not a gentle fight. Hours earlier I fed him apples, nuzzled his sweet face, kissed his cheeks. Two days earlier, on Feb. 20, 2022, we rode in our first show together.

Mar 19, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Anneliese Kannow |Lauren Sprieser |Jamie Sindell |Gracie McDuffe

My family and I own our own little sliver of horse paradise. We purchased a little dream farm mostly so I could stuff it full of horses in a quasi-affordable fashion. I did not, admittedly, envision paying a small fortune to lease and board a horse with a hunter/jumper trainer even after buying a farm. So why am I still bleeding monthly board?

Mar 12, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Anneliese Kannow |Mary O'Connor |Sinead Halpin Maynard |Lauren Sprieser

When we published Paige Cade’s blog, “Made In America,” in which the author tackled the question of why she doesn’t purchase more domestically bred horses, the online reaction from readers was swift and expansive.