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Jul 31, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum |Lindsay Berreth |Lindsey Long
It’s been three years since the U.S. squad of Jessica Springsteen, McLain Ward and Laura Kraut stood on the podium, having earned silver at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Ward (Ilex) and Kraut (Baloutinue) are back at the Paris Olympic Games, this time joined by Kent Farrington (Greya), who competed as an individual in Japan, and Karl Cook (Caracole De La Roque) who will serve as the traveling alternate.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Clayton Fredericks |Kimberly Loushin |Lindsay Berreth |Lindsey Long
Column: Experience Will Show The Way In Olympic Jumping
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lindsey Long |Lindsay Berreth |Mollie Bailey
Maria Biancone was a typical horse-crazy kid growing up in Roseland, New Jersey, but she never expected she’d have a career in horses. Decades later, though, she’s headed off to Paris to steward the Olympic Games show jumping competition.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Dallas Finn Calvert |Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin |Lindsey Long
Sandra Auffarth is a German eventing champion, on her way to Paris represent her country in her fourth Olympics already having earned medals of every color. But on Sunday at the CHIO Falsterbo (Sweden) the rider added something else to her resume: a five-star show jumping win against an international field of riders, many also headed to Paris on other horses, who specialize in the discipline.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Kimberly Loushin |Lindsey Long |Lindsay Berreth
Irish grand prix rider Conor Swail calls Count Me In his “horse of a lifetime.” Swail and “Crosby” finished eighth in the 2022 Longines FEI World Cup Final (Germany) and have gone on to pick up many grand prix wins together, including several this winter season at the Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California. Last weekend, they won big in the $746,269 ATCO Queen Elizabeth II Cup at the Spruce Meadows North American in Calgary, Alberta.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk |Mollie Bailey |Lindsay Berreth |Lindsey Long
After being selected to represent the United States during the first leg of the Longines League of Nations Series in Abu Dhabi in February, Callie Schott has again been selected for a League of Nations team. She will join Tokyo Olympians Laura Kraut, Jessica Springsteen and McLain Ward for the final leg of the series, taking place Friday in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. As Callie Schott closed her finishing circle, half a world away from home, tears started to blur her vision.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Helen Townes |Rose Keller |Lindsay Berreth |Lindsey Long
In March 2023, The New York Times published an article describing the difficulties many Black riders face in finding properly fitting helmets for natural hair, an issue that poses a barrier to inclusion and safe access to the equestrian world. For the Black riders interviewed in the story, the issue around proper helmet fit was clearly not novel or surprising—but many helmet makers said they were introduced to the longstanding problem through the reporting.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lindsay Berreth |Lindsey Long |Sara Lieser |Melissa Wright
Don’t call it a comeback. Actually, go right ahead. Two days after being eliminated in the first round of the Nations Cup at the La Baule CSIO5* (France) and withdrawing from the second round, Kent Farrington won the Rolex Grand Prix Ville de La Baule on Sunday, just nipping U.S. teammate Karl Cook, who finished second by 0.12 seconds. Belgium’s Gregory Wathalet was third.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lindsey Long |Sara Lieser |Melissa Wright |Nicole Mandracchia
With top riders like Conor Swail, Nayel Nassar and Tiffany Foster on her heels, Charlotte Jacobs knew she had to be fast with North Star’s Rincoola Milsean to take the win Sunday in the Odlum Brown 1.50-meter Grand Prix CSI4*. Two days prior, she’d finished second in the qualifier at the Thunderbird Odlum Brown BC Open show in Langley, British Columbia.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Melissa Wright |Mollie Bailey |Amy K. Dragoo |Lindsey Long
Karl Cook compares competing Caracole De La Roque to “lighting a rocket,” and he put her explosive speed to good use in the Rolex Grand Prix of Rome on May 26, when the pair laid down a scorching jump-off to claim the top spot in the class.
