Promoting Dressage

Jan 14, 2025 | chronofhorse.com | Juliana Chapman |Lauren Sprieser |Christina Keim |Promoting Dressage

The new year started off with a bang for Christian Simonson, whose new partner Indian Rock arrived stateside in the first week of 2025. Competed to 11th place in the freestyle at the Paris Olympic Games by Dutch rider Emmelie Scholtens, “Rocky” (Apache—Crisjena, Vivaldi) is the newest addition to Simonson’s string, owned by Heidi Humphries of Zen Elite Equestrian. “He’s so special, it’s hard to describe,” 22-year-old Simonson said. “He’s one of the most special horses I’ve ever interacted with.

Jan 9, 2025 | chronofhorse.com | Melissa Wright |Lauren Sprieser |Christina Keim |Promoting Dressage

Tight Lines carried Olympic eventer Will Coleman to multiple championships during the height of the gray gelding’s competitive days. Their accomplishments together included representing the United States at the 2018 World Equestrian Games (North Carolina), winning the national three- and four-star championships at Fair Hill International in 2015 and 2017, when he was 8 and 10, respectively, and completing six five-stars, including a fifth-placed finish at the 2021 Mars Maryland CCI5*.

Jan 8, 2025 | chronofhorse.com | Christina Keim |Promoting Dressage |Sue Weakley |Jamie Sindell

My human is just … a lot. She means well, and she tries hard, but she has a lot of room for improvement. Take, for example, her approach to my management this fall. I won two regional championships and one national championship for us, after which she (wisely) gave me a richly deserved vacation. But her idea of vacation and my idea of vacation are very different. I think vacation should be about doing your favorite things, which for me is hacking and stretching and running away with her.

Jan 5, 2025 | chronofhorse.com | Sue Weakley |Lindsay Berreth |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Promoting Dressage

For over 25 years, the Rattner family’s DevonWood Equestrian Centre in Sherwood, Oregon, has served the Pacific Northwest both as a full-service boarding facility and as home to countless educational and competition opportunities for regional equestrians. Built from the ground up on 40 acres in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Justin and Ginny Rattner in 1998, the couple wanted to establish a venue where equestrians could gather to learn and enjoy their horses.