By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Kacy Brown Leslie Law’s life forever changed in 2004. As a member of the British eventing team, Leslie won the individual gold medal and team silver at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics aboard Shear L’Eau. That fall, he met Canadian eventer Lesley Grant when he traveled to Toronto, where he

By Britney Grover Portraits by Melissa Fuller Kendall Bierer started her horsemanship journey when she was just 5 years old, with Linda Smith Faver at Happy Endings Farm. “I’ll never forget JB—he was the perfect gentleman for a beginner,” Kendall said. “From that moment, I fell in love with horses, and the passion never left.

By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Lindsey Long On an ordinary night in 2018, Irish show jumper Mark Kinsella met his now wife, Sophie, at the White Horse Bar and Grill in Wellington, Florida, and made an extraordinary connection. “It was just happenstance that we both ended up there, but we immediately connected,” Mark said. “Mark

By Kimberly Gatto Portraits by Lindsey Long Carrie Seim has loved horses and books for as long as she can remember. Decades later, Carrie has parlayed both of those passions into a career as a successful equestrian author. Her debut tween novel, “Horse Girl”—which she describes as “Black Beauty” meets “Mean Girls”—was released by Penguin

By Shya Beth June Evers knows the ups and downs of life as an illustrator and graphic designer, and is living proof that pushing through the more challenging times and not giving up one’s dreams is the pathway to living them out. Specializing in graphic design and illustration, June typically does not create custom illustration

By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Kacy Brown For nearly 30 years, when the New York Stock Exchange rang its opening bell at 9:30 a.m. it had a direct impact on Valerie Kalderon’s day. While on Wall Street, Valerie worked for Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, where she became known as “The Fixer.” Regardless of what

By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Melissa Fuller When Tessa Downey was 13 years old, she met an unlikely partner in a 17.2-hand Holsteiner gelding named HH Moonshine, aka Moo. Rather than following the “traditional path” of moving from her medium ponies, Anisette and Happily Ever After, to a large pony, she jumped straight into the