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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Molly Sorge
Kent Farrington is now two-for-two in five-star action at Wellington International (Florida). The World No. 3 rider clinched a second consecutive CSI5* victory Saturday in the $500,000 Lugano Grand Prix aboard his 2024 FEI World Cup Final partner Greya during the Winter Equestrian Festival. In front of a sold-out stadium, Anthony D’Ambrosio (USA) built a testing track that saw seven pairs advance to a tie-breaking jump-off, led off by another U.S. team rider, Lillie Keenan.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Melissa Wright |Molly Sorge
The U.S. Equestrian Federation is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent the U.S. jumping team in the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Wellington CSIO4* hosted at Wellington International in Wellington, Florida, from Feb. 25-March 2. The team will be led by Chef d’Equipe Robert Ridland and team leader Lizzy Chesson.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Christina Keim |Molly Sorge |Rose Keller
Amateur show jumper Gigi Moynihan has been riding horses since she could walk. She grew up foxhunting and riding hunters and jumpers, competing at the FEI North American Youth Championships when she was 15. But when she threw a leg over a dressage horse she was trying toward the end of 2022, she felt like a beginner again. “It was so embarrassing,” she said.
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2 months ago | 
chronofhorse.com | Molly Sorge |Nicole Mandracchia |Mollie Bailey
JJ Torano topped a field of 75 equitation riders of the nation’s top junior athletes to win the 2025 WEC Premier Equitation Cup Championship on Saturday at the World Equestrian Center-Ocala (Florida). The prestigious competition featured a three-phase format, with the possibility of a work-off.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Justine Griffin |Christina Keim |Natalie Voss |Molly Sorge
When eventer Mikenna Hallock and her husband, Andy Hallock, established Three Beat Farms in Oregon City, Oregon, in 2021, the new professional looked for any opportunity to showcase her training skills to the equestrian community. That, in part, was why 28-year-old Mikenna decided to partner with a Clackamas County, Oregon, nonprofit rescue called Sound Equine Options to assist with training some of their intakes.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Natalie Voss |Molly Sorge |Kimberly Loushin |Camilla Mortensen
Nearly three years ago, Sara Kozumplik got a call from her friend and fellow eventer Nilson Moreira Da Silva that his four-star mount, Rock Phantom, was for sale. Kozumplik had always liked the striking bay Irish Sport Horse gelding (Spirit House—Ballycroy Rose, Clonakilty Hero) bred by Maura O’Malley, and Da Silva wondered if she knew someone who might be interested in him.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Natalie Voss |Molly Sorge |Hannah Sherk |Nicole Mandracchia
Formaldehyde. Pentobarbital. Oxytocin. Those drugs are among an eye-raising list of medications that will not be allowed on show grounds with anyone except a veterinarian, under an extraordinary rule change proposed by the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s Veterinary Committee.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Molly Sorge |Mollie Bailey |Kimberly Loushin |Camilla Mortensen
It’s not exactly a new experience for seven-time Olympian Phillip Dutton to win an upper-level event, but the CCI4*-S at TerraNova—which served as the third qualifier in the inaugural year of the US Equestrian Open series—was a big day, even for him. Dutton won with Azure, and he also took second on Quasi Cool, giving him an early lead in the series, which builds toward a fall 2025 final offering $250,000 in total prize money.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Nicole Mandracchia |Laura Lemon |Molly Sorge |Jennifer Wood
Following the 2017 passing of equestrian legend Bill Steinkraus, a story resurfaced of a “lucky” dollar bill that changed hands between three of the most renowned show jumping athletes in history. The dollar bill started its path to glory in the pocket of Steinkraus, who rode Snowbound to the individual Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Nicole Mandracchia |Molly Sorge |Rose Keller |Aaron Vale
Amateur jumper rider Amy Shafmaster spends most of her time juggling her schedule around riding five show horses, competing in the high amateur jumpers and running her family business. And even for a woman charged with regularly making sure countless pounds of lobster make it from the waters off New Hampshire to the dinner tables of China within a few days, the logistics of riding, working and motherhood can be daunting at times. “Riding helps keep me young,” said the 52-year-old.
