Julie Winkel

Aug 6, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Alexia Rule |Mollie Bailey |Kimberly Loushin |Julie Winkel

It’s that time of year again, when hundreds of ponies descend upon the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington to compete at USEF Pony Finals. Get ready for horsemanship quizzes, scavenger hunts, golf cart decorating, pizza parties, model clinics and, oh yes, serious hunter, jumper and equitation competition as well.

Aug 5, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Kimberly Loushin |Julie Winkel |Jamie Sindell

Kameron Berry has never been afraid of a little hard work. “He is at the barn all the time,” said trainer Kathy Slack of Bee Cave Riding Center in Austin, Texas. “He’s the most agreeable young person. There’s never a pouty moment.

Aug 1, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Julie Winkel |Erin Harty |Sue Lyman |Justine Griffin

On July 25—one day before equestrian competition began at the Paris Olympic Games and four days after a video ofBritish double Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin whipping a horse during a training session caused a scandal broader than the horse world—the Fédération Equestre International called a press roundtable on horse welfare.

Jul 9, 2024 | chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Julie Winkel |Virginia Daffron |Erin Harty

Ann Demellweek thought she’d lost her beloved horse “Kit” forever after she was forced to sell him in 1998. She had owned the Canadian Warmblood Thoroughbred cross gelding, show name Mahogany North, from the time he was weaned until he was 15. A divorce forced Demellweek to sell Kit, and she was heartbroken about it. “I really had no choice. I needed a roof over my head,” she recalled. The day his new owner came to pick him up, Kit refused to get in the trailer despite always being very easy to load.