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Sep 5, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Eliza Sydnor Romm |Sarah K. Susa |Sara Lieser
I was one of the 19.5 million viewers who tuned in for the men’s basketball gold medal final at the Paris Olympic Games. As I watched Team USA step atop the podium to cement their victory over France, the camera panned to the U.S. coaching staff clapping in unison from the sidelines.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Jamie Sindell |Hannah Sherk |Sarah K. Susa |Sara Lieser
“You look like you’re knitting a sweater!” Pretty sure in riding (especially dressage) that is one harsh insult, intended to invoke the image of someone who is overly busy—hands pulling left, right, left, right. It’s certainly not something we want. But as a rider, you do need to be creative with the contact, to communicate something to your horse. When I was a teenager, I had the wonderful opportunity to be a working student for Lilo Fore.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Sarah K. Susa |Sara Lieser |Brit Vegas |Jamie Sindell
My oldest child is 14. No longer the little girl who needed and wanted me so much, now she’s a teenager jockeying for her independence. She’s an incredible human, but at times it feels difficult to connect with her, to reel her back in when she’s pushing me away. Thankfully, our mutual love for horses—a passion we’ve shared since she was a toddler—remains unchanged.
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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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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 5, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Brit Vegas |Mollie Bailey |Lisa Slade |Sara Lieser
Following the announcement of the U.S. Olympic Eventing Team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Chef d’Equipe Bobby Costello said that the high intensity weeks leading up to the July 27–29 event are his “favorite time.” “I think anybody that has Olympic aspirations, as far as an athlete goes, thrives in times like these,” Costello said.
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May 29, 2024 | 
chronofhorse.com | Mollie Bailey |Lisa Slade |Sara Lieser |Hannah Sherk
Welcome back to Capture The Magic’s journey to the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover. I was so hopeful this update was going to include how we have successfully made it back to competition ring since arriving home to Nebraska from our winter training base in Aiken, South Carolina. Unfortunately, life has jumped right in and added a few curve balls making it a bit tricker for “Houdini” and I to leave the farm.
