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1 month ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Nicole Mandracchia |Christina Keim |Dallas Finn Calvert
Caroline Pamukcu is used to being on the go, having competed 18 horses 93 times from beginner novice to advanced in 2024. But she left the show scene in October, as she and her husband Deniz Pamukcu prepared for a new chapter of their life: parenthood. The couple welcomed daughter Blake Pamukcu, who shares a name with Caroline’s Paris Olympic mount HSH Blake, on Jan. 29. “I’ve always wanted to have a family, and I’ve always been super close with my family,” Caroline said.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Melissa Wright |Nicole Mandracchia |Dallas Finn Calvert
When Will Faudree is asked to describe the personality of his five-star partner Mama’s Magic Way, his answer is instantaneous: “He’s like a 3-year-old little boy on a sugar high at Disney World that’s gotten away from his parents and is applying for a job there.”Another apt description for the 14-year-old gelding? “He’s like one of Boyd Martin’s children.”“Left unsupervised, you’ll find him on the roof of a building,” adds groom Christina Curiale.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Melissa Wright |Nicole Mandracchia |Dallas Finn Calvert |Natalie Voss
Around Christmas, Grand Prix dressage rider Lauren Chumley received a text message from her event rider friend Meg Kepferle. “Can you go to California?” it read. “At this very moment?” was Chumley’s response. While Chumley is a dressage professional, for nearly 15 years she’s dabbled “on the dark side,” in the eventing world, competing up to the two-star level with Atlanta B. She hasn’t competed at the preliminary level or higher since 2021, but she’s been earning to jump the bigger fences again.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Sue Weakley |Dallas Finn Calvert |Natalie Voss |Christina Keim
Small dustings of leftover snow, a rare sight for South Carolina riders, still flanked several of the cross-country jumps when riders headed out to the schooling field for their opportunity to learn from British double Olympic gold medalist Laura Collett during a her clinic last week at Andre Parro’s Cedar Ridge Equestrian in Aiken.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
chronofhorse.com | Natalie Voss |Melissa Wright |Dallas Finn Calvert |Kimberly Loushin
Eventer Liz Halliday was named the 2024 international equestrian of the year and hunter rider Nick Haness was named the national equestrian of the year on Thursday evening during the Pegasus Award Dinner at the USEF Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. Halliday, of Lexington, Kentucky, began riding when she was 8 years old as a member of the U.S. Pony Club.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
chronofhorse.com | Christina Keim |Dallas Finn Calvert |Kimberly Loushin |Natalie Voss
An extraordinary rule change proposal that would ban certain injectable medications and other substances including formaldehyde, pentobarbital and oxytocin from horse show grounds has been revised—and expanded—in advance of next week’s U.S. Equestrian Federation Annual Meeting (Kentucky), where it will be discussed and voted on by the board of directors, after breed and discipline stakeholder groups largely rejected the first draft.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
useventing.com | Dallas Finn Calvert
Oct 02, 2024 Mother-Daughter Duo Kirchhoff and Chater Share a Love of Eventing There were so many horses and riders who overcame the odds and triumphed at this year's USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds. While we couldn't tell every story during the event, we'll be sharing some in the coming weeks on useventing.com. Searching for a new restaurant to try, catching up on the news, or watching funny cat videos? The internet’s where it’s at. But buying a horse, sight...
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Rose Keller |Melissa Wright |Dallas Finn Calvert
Before the 2022 FEI Eventing World Championships in Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy, few eventing fans were familiar with Monica Spencer and her Thoroughbred Artist. The pair had only competed outside of their native New Zealand once before, and even that excursion kept them in the Southern Hemisphere, in neighboring Australia.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
useventing.com | Dallas Finn Calvert
Sep 13, 2024 From Organizing to Coaching to Competing, Alice Sarno Has Been Growing Eventing in Arizona For Decades When Alice Sarno was 8 years old, she begged her parents for riding lessons. “All I could do was think about horses,” said Sarno, 75, recalling that they eventually agreed. “They finally gave up on giving me dance lessons and got me horseback riding lessons instead. My mom and dad made a deal thinking I would phase right out of it. But by the next year, I had two more horses.”...
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Rose Keller |Kimberly Loushin |Melissa Wright |Dallas Finn Calvert
Olympic eventer Liz Halliday continues to make strides in her recovery following a head injury sustained in a cross-country fall on Aug. 29, during the USEA American Eventing Championships (Kentucky).
