Chris Stafford

Apr 4, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Lauren Sprieser |Erin Gilmore |Rose Keller |Chris Stafford

Salvino, Adrienne Lyle’s partner for Olympic and World team silver medals, has retired at 17, Lyle and the stallion’s owner, Betsy Juliano, announced Thursday. “This has been a very difficult decision to make, but more than anything we feel it is the right decision for him,” Lyle said in a press release announcing his retirement. “He continues to be ridden at home; he loves to work and show the other horses how it should be done.

Apr 3, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Sarah K. Susa |Sophie Coffey |Rose Keller |Chris Stafford

Cadeau, my top horse, has weird feet. They’re small and a little upright, and like everything that comes from Europe, he struggled a bit to adjust to the concrete block that is the ground in a Virginia summer. One of the 10 million reasons I use my excellent farrier Sean Crocker is because he believes in the team approach: He listens to my also-excellent sports medicine veterinarian Dr. Cricket Russillo, and he listens to me when I tell him how the horses are going.

Mar 27, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Christina Keim |Rose Keller |Chris Stafford |Hannah Sherk

Geñay Vaughn has learned a lot from her relationship with Gino, a 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding that the dressage rider first partnered with when he was just a green 6-year-old. In addition to competing him at the upper levels and getting to know his unique “Mr. Macho” personality, one particular lesson stands out. “Trust your mom,” Vaughn said with a laugh.

Mar 26, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Laura Lemon |Chris Stafford

As she prepared to enter the International Arena for the $385,000 Bainbridge Companies Grand Prix CSI5* earlier this month, Luciana Lossio could hear the voice of her former coach Marcos Fernandez “Joca” Alves in her mind. “Lu, go for it. You can do it,” she imagined him saying. “You and ‘Lady,’ you can do it. You are as good as them. Don’t be shy because you are jumping with Ben Maher, with McLain [Ward], or anybody else. You can do it.

Mar 26, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Kimberly Loushin |Chris Stafford |Mike Rosser

Social license to operate—the idea that the public must approve of what people are doing with their horses in order for equestrian sports to continue—remains a key topic in conversations across the show world. And much of the March 25 U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Town Hall webinar, led by USHJA President Mary Knowlton, continued in that theme.