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1 day ago | eventingnation.com | Sally Spickard

Mark your calendars! Entries are now officially open for the 2025 Maryland International CCI and Horse Trials, running June 27-29 at Loch Moy Farm in Adamstown, MD. And with $30,000 in prize money up for grabs at the FEI levels, this year’s event is promising to be the best yet. Returning this year is the USEF Eventing Young Rider Championships, bringing together top rising talent from across the country for a weekend that mixes championship-intensity competition with serious celebration.

2 days ago | eventingnation.com | Catherine Austen

By on - There’s something rather cool about completing your first Badminton when you’re the youngest rider in the field. Tom Bird, 23, has two Burghleys under his belt before this week, but now he’s done the “double B”. Cowling Hot Gossip, on whom Tom jumped clear across country with 26.8 time-faults, was the first horse Tom backed, when the horse was five and Tom was 15. Three show jumps down today for 39th place did little to dim the glow of achievement.

2 days ago | eventingnation.com | Catherine Austen

By on - Badminton’s Glentrool Trophy, awarded to “the horse and rider who have made the greatest improvement on their dressage placing” – in other words, the pair who have shot the furthest up the leaderboard, has a distinguished history. It was given to Badminton in 1992 by top British rider Lorna Clarke when she retired from eventing, in memory of her brilliant cross-country horse Glentrool, who, in 1985, rose 59 places from 72nd after dressage to finish 13th.

2 days ago | eventingnation.com | Sally Spickard

The first big test of the newer partnership of Boyd Martin and Liz Halliday’s Paris horse, Cooley Nutcracker, came this weekend as the pair contested their first CCI4*-L together at the Yanmar America Tryon International.

3 days ago | eventingnation.com | Tilly Berendt

Sunday at Badminton always feels like three different days of three very different lengths, all rolled into one: there’s the morning’s long, slow final horse inspection, which is a full-scale, high-tension competitive endeavour in its own right; a couple of hours later (and approximately four coffees) the first session of competitors, which offers up an opportunity to see what’s been built and how it’s riding over the course of an hour; and then, a couple of hours after that, the final...