Hannah Sherk

4 days ago | chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk

There was no official notice posted to the tack room door. No email to staff and boarders. No letter to families. Just rumors passed from boarder to instructor, instructor to student. Then the trailers arrived, confirming the suspicions that had been swirling: Rock Creek Park Horse Center was in trouble. On Jan. 31, Laura Brown, then a Rock Creek instructor, first heard that the public barn, established by Congress in 1890, would be closing.

1 week ago | chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk

A dispute between the International Eventing Officials Club and Fédération Equestre Internationale will culminate in a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Switzerland), the international body that arbitrates disputes in sport. Set for fall of this year, the hearing will address a conflict between FEI and the IEOC, the organization that represents eventing officials globally, over the termination of a memorandum of understanding.

3 weeks ago | chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk

When Boyd Martin travelled to Paris alongside his U.S. teammate Liz Halliday last summer, he admired how in sync the rider was with her Olympic partner, Cooley Nutcracker. “Liz always presented the horse and made him look quite easy and beautiful,” Boyd said of the horse-and-rider team, whose dressage test at the Games earned the best score by a U.S. pair since 2008.

4 weeks ago | chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk

Australian eventer Hazel Shannon says that when you have a 20-year-old horse in active riding and competition, you “don’t have a big picture plan—it’s just a day by day thing.” But when your horse is WillingaPark Clifford, on some of those days you win the Adelaide International CCI5*-L (Australia).

1 month ago | chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk

When Libby Head’s underdog eventer, Sir Rockstar, died this month at age 27, it struck her that the five-star horse had been in her life longer than he hadn’t.  “I’ve had him since I was 16,” Head, 33, said. “He went to college with me. He moved everywhere with me. He was just the most consistent thing in my life.”While Head retired “Rocky” from high-level competition in 2016, the Thoroughbred still played a big part in her daily life, teaching a new generation of riders.