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May 21, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Sue Lyman |Paige Cade |Kimberly Loushin
Monday evening, in his first virtual USHJA Town Hall since assuming the role of president in April, Britt McCormick took time to discuss how the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association functions and how he hopes to move the organization forward in his presidency. “One of the first things that I wanted to do is kind of look under the hood of the USHJA on the business side and just take a look at what we’re doing,” he said.
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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 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.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Lois U. Horvitz |Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin |Paige Cade
Thermal, Calif.—March 8In the second week in February, Nick Haness rode West Coast Equine Partners’ Cavaletto Loma Z in the $49,900 USHJA International Hunter Derby and things didn’t go too well. They started out strong, with “Cavaletto” finishing second in the classic round, but when he slipped on the grass field in Round 2, Haness opted to retire and save him for another day.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Kimberly Loushin |Gracie McDuffe |Paige Cade
Sometimes my team and I are really rolling, with lots of horses and humans showing and getting somewhere and grinding it out. Other times, the youngsters are all youngstering, and I didn’t book a lot of clinics in January and February because the weather usually stinks, and we’re mostly just logging miles and waiting for something to happen. This is one of those times.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Paige Cade |Laura Adriaanse |Leah Lang-Gluscic |Gracie McDuffe
I admit it. I’ve got the pony loving affliction-addiction. Gimme all the teeny, typey, dishy heads. Luckily, I have five kiddos to fulfill my pony dreams, and we own our own little barn. My vision has always been to bring along green ponies in my backyard. When I shared my dream with horse friends, they looked at me like I sprouted a second head. Their emphatic “Hells no!” responses certainly caused some self-doubt, but alas, my desire for a young pony was rooted deep.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Paige Cade |John Madden |Laura Adriaanse |Leah Lang-Gluscic
We sat in the drive-thru at Tim Hortons, waiting in queue for coffee before heading to the riding school for our daughters’ Saturday morning lessons. The year was 2021. Our family was just re-emerging from lockdown. It was a full house in the back seat of our car. My mother-in-law “Nanny” was wedged between our girls Abigail (then 9) and Jilliann (10). We had just sold our little farm months before the onset of the pandemic, so we certainly were not actively looking to buy a horse.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Laura Adriaanse |Leah Lang-Gluscic |Sarah K. Susa |Paige Cade
I’ve always asked why. I was that kid. Questions that lead to more questions are my favorite puzzles to ponder, and I received one question after the publication of my last piece that’s been turning in my mind ever since: Why don’t I buy domestically bred horses? With some exceptions, I find that many U.S.-bred horses are not of the same quality as their European counterparts. Why?
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin |Paige Cade |Laura Lemon
McQueen, the Chronicle’s 2023 Show Hunter Horse of the Year, added yet another jewel to his crown Saturday night by winning the $100,000 WCHR Peter Wetherill Palm Beach Hunter Spectacular. The victory was the first for rider Nick Haness of Temecula, California, in the headline event of the Winter Equestrian Festival’s World Championship Hunter Rider Week at Wellington International (Florida).
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Hannah Sherk |Kimberly Loushin |Paige Cade |Mollie Bailey
Riding two of her longtime partners, Jenny Karazissis picked up back-to-back wins at Desert Horse Park in Thermal, California, on Feb. 9. The rider kicked off her winning day on Big Shot, a 13-year-old Holsteiner owned by Dulcie Lou Morris, who claimed first in the $5,000 USHJA National hunt-and-go derby.
