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Aug 9, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Sara Lieser |Brit Vegas |Jamie Sindell |Laura Adriaanse
It’s horse camp season again, that time of year when so many equestrian programs ask our already saintly lesson horses to go even more above and beyond. Many of us rely on our summer camp income to financially carry our businesses through the slower winter season, so it’s vital that our camps remain successful and profitable. That can only happen if our horses also remain amiable to the experience. Summer camps are a lot on lesson horses.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Brit Vegas |Sara Lieser |Jamie Sindell |Laura Adriaanse
Five days; 117,379 steps taken; 47 miles walked. Countless pastries consumed but not enough glasses of wine drunk because almost no alcohol was allowed inside the Palace of Versailles Olympic equestrian venue. I thought I was tired when I worked the press, but it turns out spectating the Olympic Games offers even less time for sleep. While my too-short time in Paris was a blast, it left me pondering the place and purpose of horse sports in these Games.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Sara Lieser |Jamie Sindell |Laura Adriaanse |Eliza Sydnor Romm
What was it that I said in my last write up? Training isn’t linear? Well during our month of July I got to live that reality once again. Capture The Magic and I had an interesting end of June and start to our July training. I left our first event of the summer, Mill Creek Pony Club Horse Trials in Kansas City, Missouri, on a high at the beginning of June.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Laura Adriaanse |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Sarah K. Susa
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games weren’t necessarily on my bucket list this year, but when one of your best friends since you were badly behaved teenaged working students together 25 years ago reserves tickets and accommodations for you, you say yes. That was how I found myself walking through the golden gates of the most famous chateau in France at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, for Olympic cross-country day.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Laura Adriaanse |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Sarah K. Susa |Sara Bradley
When my husband and I moved our family to a farm two years ago, I knew our lives would be different. But I couldn’t predict in what ways. I understood that farm life would shape my kids, but I couldn’t anticipate how much it would change my own outlook on life. When we ride in our back yard, there’s no end game. We stop for hug breaks, pee-in-the-grass-because-we-can’t-hold-it breaks and just-because breaks. At first, this admittedly made me nuts. I was always in a rush and on a mission.
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May 2, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Melissa Wright |Kimberly Loushin |Laura Adriaanse |Mollie Bailey
Back at the start of last year, Nash Gagnon had never competed in a U.S. Equestrian Federation-recognized competition. The teen was working three jobs in his hometown of Gorham, Maine, taking online classes, and saving up in hopes of heading down to Wellington, Florida, for the first time. What a difference a year and a half makes. This month, Gagnon, 19, was named to the U.S. Dressage European Young Rider Tour with his 17-year-old Oldenburg gelding, Happy Texas Moonlight.
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May 1, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Paige Cade |Laura Adriaanse |Lauren Sprieser
Welcome to my journey to the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover. It sure looks just a little bit different for me this year, and I’ve been doing this competition annually since 2015. Meet Capture The Magic (Uncaptured—Magical Holiday, Speightstown), known around the barn as “Houdini,” a beautiful dark bay, appearing black, 4-year-old stallion.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Kimberly Loushin |Laura Adriaanse |Mollie Bailey |Sarah K. Susa
Sweden’s Patrik Kittel scored the “touchdown” of his career Friday night in Riyadh, winning the FEI Dressage World Cup freestyle with a performance that earned the title by a mere 0.25 percentage points. He did not have to beat the one horse who topped him in Wednesday’s Grand Prix after—in another shock at these World Cup Finals in Riyadh—Charlotte Fry and Everdale were eliminated for blood before ever entering the competition ring.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Melissa Wright |Laura Adriaanse |Mollie Bailey |Sarah K. Susa
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the athlete-and-horse combinations that have been selected to the U.S. Dressage European Young Rider Tour and U.S. Dressage European U25 Tour. The athletes will be led by George Williams, the USEF dressage high performance pathway development advisor and youth coach.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Paige Cade |Laura Adriaanse |Lauren Sprieser |Jamie Sindell
I’m the mom who made her daughter’s riding about me. I’ll admit it. Thankfully, my daughter’s trainer wasn’t afraid to call me out. Two years ago, I witnessed my daughter’s ongoing battle to ride her pony. We switched barns and found a new trainer. Even though we found a better situation, seeing my daughter struggle brought on waves of sadness that I couldn’t stuff down. This new trainer had a no-nonsense, can-do attitude, and though she listened, she pushed me to reconsider my position.
