By Britney Grover  It’s hard to get Tony Sgarlata to talk about himself—much easier, in fact, to get him talking about horses, his dogs or the people in his life. That doesn’t mean he and his career aren’t worth celebrating. Tony is an accomplished rider, and in the course of 20 years of running his

By Margie Sugarman What do Marie Claire, Anne Hathaway, Megan Fox, Kate Bosworth, Lindsay Lohan, Blake Lively, Madonna and maybe your horse have in common? Cowlicks and whorls. These terms come from a rather interesting definition: They are nouns that refer to a shape or pattern that is spiral or circular in form. When it

By Rob Jacobs As competitive equestrians, we may go through phases of winning and having success so routinely that it may become expected. When this is the case, it’s likely more challenging to comprehend a horse show that was unexpectedly less successful than one is accustomed to. In the world of horses, there are so

By Liz Halliday During the first week of October, the U.S. eventing team gathered at Loch Moy Farm in Maryland for the mandatory final outing ahead of the 2023 Pan American Games. The event offered a unique and invaluable preparation for the upcoming Games, held in Santiago, Chile, and while competition certainly ran through the

By Tafra Donberger Portraits by Kristie Scholten Taylor Manning was a very determined 11-year-old with a plan when she called her parents into their family living room one afternoon. Unbeknownst to them, she had decided she wanted to ride horses and had researched everything she might need to know about the sport. She was so

By Britney Grover Portraits by Johanna Henjes Peighton Deitz is 16 years old, a junior in high school preparing for riding in college, and the owner and operator of Grey Horse Equestrian Belt Co. She started making her own belts when she couldn’t find any she liked well enough at shows to pay the high

By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Maddy Falkowitz It’s been said, “Home is the starting place of love, hope and dreams.” When Madison Aguilar first stepped foot on the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) campus to attend the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) Zone Championships in 2014, she felt a sense of belonging that only