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
Do I feel sorry for a person with a limp, a missing limb, or some other physical challenge? Yeah, I do — until that
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No news is generally good news–and nowhere is that more true than at the Olympic Games equestrian events. I’d much rather expend my keystrokes telling
Today’s course for the first jumping qualifier of the 2012 London Olympic Games, designed by Bob Ellis, was a whirlwind tour of London and
As anyone who’s watched NBC’s prime-time Olympic Games coverage knows, the mainstream media and many viewers love the human-interest stories behind the Games athletes. We
Boyd Martin’s mount, Otis Barbotiere, was “spun” (withdrawn in the holding box) during the second horse inspection of the 2012 Olympic eventing competition, pre-show-jumping. After
London Olympics cross-country course designer Sue Benson’s track was every bit as twisty, turny, hilly, and tight as she’d predicted. Of the 74 starters, nine
It’s a question that a lot of you have asked. Imagine our surprise at learning that most of the hay and bedding at the
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