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1 week ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Eliza Sydnor Romm |Jennifer B. Calder |Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin
The Dressage Foundation has announced Laura DeCesari of Tucson, Arizona, as the recipient of the $25,000 Carol Lavell Advanced Dressage Prize. The Advanced Dressage Prize provides financial assistance for coaching and training to talented, committed, horse-and-rider combinations with the ability and plans to reach international standards of high-performance dressage.
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1 week ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Eliza Sydnor Romm |Kimberly Loushin |Tracy Gold |Mollie Bailey
Donna Cheek is a name that deserves to be recognized far beyond equestrian circles. A pioneer in show jumping, she made history in 1982 as the first Black person to represent the United States in international show jumping at the American Junior Show Jumping Championship in Mexico City. Her journey is one of perseverance, talent and an unwavering determination to finding your place in a sport that often feels out of reach.
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1 week ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Eliza Sydnor Romm |Hannah Sherk |Jude R. Florio |Rose Keller
Classical dressage master Charles de Kunffy died April 14. He was born in 1936 in Hungary and was a member of the Austro-Hungarian nobility. He wrote seven books and many articles for the Journal of Equitation and Culture and has a lecture series online.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Matt Brown |Sarah K. Susa |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Tracy Gold
Horse owners are dedicated to their equine partners, often making personal sacrifices to ensure their horses are well cared for by veterinarians, farriers, and trainers. Horses are pampered with warm blankets, massages and carefully thought-out exercise programs. Regardless of the equine discipline, most owners put their horses first, before themselves, devoting enormous sums of money to their care and substantial amounts of personal time to fostering their partnership.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Matt Brown |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Tracy Gold |Camilla Mortensen
I need security cameras, I thought, peering into the depths of the partially frozen, 100-gallon trough in my front pasture. My phone glowed eerily from the bottom, a sad little submarine. It’s a real shame no one else gets to see this. Just before dusk, I’d set out to check the troughs in each of the three pastures on my little 10-acre farm just north of Pittsburgh.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Sarah K. Susa |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Tracy Gold |Nicole Mandracchia
I can picture my seventh-grade teacher, let’s call her Mrs. Smith, with her bun wound almost as tightly as she was, wagging her finger at me, and putting on a very stern look. “Matthew! Stop throwing those beer nuts across the classroom!”I don’t remember exactly what went through my head when she told me to stop, but I do remember what my response was, and it was the opposite of stopping. As soon as she turned her back, fling, there went another beer nut. I’m pretty sure Mrs. Smith hated me.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lauren Sprieser |Jamie Sindell |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Melissa Wright
I often blog about my oldest daughter, but I also have an 8-year-old who’s smack in the “middle-child” zone in our circus of five. From a young age, she was absolutely terrified of anything unfamiliar and, full disclosure, her anxiety made her extremely challenging to parent. I didn’t know it at the time, but all it took was stepping out of her way and letting the horses work their magic. She has transformed into a whole different kid. It was far from love at first sight, though.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lauren Sprieser |Jamie Sindell |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Melissa Wright
In my show career, I learned that there are times—often what seem, to me, to be random times—when Humans will insist upon doing more than just combing your hair. They will show up in the middle of the night or early in the morning hellbent on making your hair look as terrible as their own. As far as I’m concerned, Human decisions about when to braid are totally arbitrary.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
chronofhorse.com | Sue Weakley |Lindsay Berreth |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Promoting Dressage
For over 25 years, the Rattner family’s DevonWood Equestrian Centre in Sherwood, Oregon, has served the Pacific Northwest both as a full-service boarding facility and as home to countless educational and competition opportunities for regional equestrians. Built from the ground up on 40 acres in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Justin and Ginny Rattner in 1998, the couple wanted to establish a venue where equestrians could gather to learn and enjoy their horses.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Melissa Wright |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Mollie Bailey
I’m back, folks. It’s true that I’ve been on sabbatical from my human management columns for some years now, but have no fear, your sensei has returned. And your sensei isn’t all that happy with you. I’ve spent the past couple of years retired from the Show Human Circuit, happily ensconced in a great equine therapy program where I work with kind riders who are appropriately grateful for my ability to stand still and eat treats.
