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Nov 14, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Camilla Mortensen |Helen Townes |Hannah Sherk |Melissa Wright
We’ve all seen gasp-inducing cross-country rides. Maybe it’s because someone was flying around at a reckless speed, repeatedly finding poor distances, or maybe it’s because they were arriving at fences so slowly their horse was struggling to get to the other side. In some cases, those riders appear fine on paper. They don’t have cross-country stops littering their record, or tons of rails in show jumping, and maybe they even keep earning the necessary qualifications to move up the levels.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Helen Townes |Christina Keim |Sarah K. Susa |Kimberly Loushin
Last year, Molly Duda and her quirky Oldenburg gelding Disco Traveler (Donatelli—Cadence) shot up the levels from training to CCI3*-L in less than 12 months, earning a slew of accolades on the way.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Helen Townes |Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin |Melissa Wright
Not even 2,500 miles of ocean can get between Lila Badham and her equestrian dreams. Honolulu native Badham is one of 16 riders selected to participate in this year’ MZ Farms/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program National Training Session, going on now through Sunday at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Virginia.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Christina Keim |Sarah K. Susa |Kimberly Loushin |Helen Townes
They say that good things come in small packages, and at the Halloween-themed October Plantation Field Starter Trials (Pennsylvania), an 8-hand, 10-year-old miniature horse named Popcorn stole the show. His owner, Canadian five-star eventer Lisa Marie Fergusson, showed up to the event as Dorothy from “The Wizard Of Oz,” ponying Popcorn as her sidekick “Toto” from the back of a 6-year-old Thoroughbred gelding in the starter division.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin |Christina Keim |Helen Townes
For most of his life, Andrew Diemer has been on the back of a horse. Starting as a 3-year-old being ponied by his parents on foxhunts, to joining Pony Club, eventing through the intermediate level and playing polocrosse internationally, horses and horse sports have always served as an anchor for Diemer. Even during the brief periods of his life when he didn’t have a horse of his own, Diemer, 34, always found a way to stay involved.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Laura Lemon |Mollie Bailey |Lauren Sprieser |Helen Townes
Paula Oliver always wanted to pursue riding, and dressage in particular, as a young person, but when the time came to attend graduate school for genetics and pathology, she knew horses would have to move to the back burner while she established a career that could fund her passion. Oliver earned her doctorate and now teaches immunology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Christina Keim |Kimberly Loushin |Helen Townes |Rose Keller
Emma Kane-Mikan once thought she wanted to be a professional horse trainer. She was a working student at a dressage barn, worked in a program that paired veterans with mustangs and worked at a private hunter/jumper farm. But those experiences helped her realize that making horses her livelihood wasn’t for her, and that she preferred keeping her equine pursuits in the “fun” column.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Helen Townes |Rose Keller |Melissa Wright
As recently as last year, Amy Rodriguez’s current ride, Gettin’ Ziggy Wit It, didn’t have a consistent right lead canter. So when the 8-year-old piebald gelding qualified for the U.S. Eventing Association’s Area I Championships at beginner novice this season—his first year of showing—she had zero expectations of a top finish at the event. “He doesn’t have that big, animated, flashy way of moving that looks so good,” said Rodriguez, 33, of Honeoye Falls, New York.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Helen Townes |Kimberly Loushin |Rose Keller |Melissa Wright
Will Coleman might have picked up a pair of Fédération Equestre Internationale wins at The Fork at Tryon in Mill Spring, North Carolina, Sept. 12-15, but he’s got his focus firmly on the future with his blue-ribbon mounts Off The Record, who won the CCI4*-S, and Cold Red Rum, winner of the CCI3*-S.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Rose Keller |Melissa Wright |Helen Townes
When Braden Speck leaves the cross-country start box for the Plantation Field CCI4*-S this weekend, he might have the biggest cheering section on course. Not only did the 21-year-old grow up in Unionville, Pennsylvania, where the event is held, but his friends and family there know exactly what he’s been through to reach this point—the last big prep event before his planned CCI4*-L debut.
