Jennifer

Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France, founder of the International Olympic Committee and the generally acknowledged father of the modern Olympic Games, envisioned a field of amateur athletes for whom “the essential thing is...

  Do I feel sorry for a person with a limp, a missing limb, or some other physical challenge? Yeah, I do — until that person climbs in the saddle and proceeds to kick my able-bodied dressage-riding butt. That’s...

Just days before the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, accredited media were finally invited to take a tour of the veterinary facilities. (I take full credit for the opportunity; I think I finally wore down the...

Exaggerated flexion of a horse’s poll and neck, although surely practiced in the past, became popularized (so to speak) in dressage in the 1980s when Nicole Uphoff of Germany used it as a training technique with her horse,...

 None of the British team jumping gold medalists stood on the individual jumping medal podium today. Instead, one member each of the silver-medal Dutch team and the fourth-placed Swiss team, plus one individual competitor,...

As I reported in a previous blog post, the Canadian jumper Victor was disqualified from the 2012 Olympic team jumping competition after failing a hypersensitivity test. According to the International Equestrian Federation (FEI),...

After pulling three rails in succession early in the first of two rounds in today’s Olympic individual jumping medal final, the Netherlands’ Maikel van der Vleuten pulled up his mount, Verdi.The ten-year-old Dutch...

Now this sounds like a great way to end one’s silver-medal-winning Olympic experience: The 2012 German dressage competitors will be taking a cruise ship, not a plane, home from London.Anabel Balkenhol (the individual...

 All the complaints–about cost, ticket availability, traffic hassles, and more–evaporated in an instant when Great Britain’s Peter Charles and Vindicat brought it home in the team gold medal jump-off.Their...

As you know if you read yesterday’s press release from the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), the Canadian jumper Victor, ridden by Tiffany Foster, was disqualified after FEI hypersensitivity tests found an area of...