Olympic Dressage — Looking Toward Rio with Steffen Peters: Dancing Horses and Riders Aim for the Podium
Monday, July 25 2016
By Lauren R. Giannini Beautiful dancing horses and their riders make Grand Prix look easy, but dressage is anything but. It requires years of training and practice, incredible focus and concentration, superior core strength and skills. Horses and riders who compete at the Olympic Grand Prix level are a glorious sight to
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Always an Olympian – Kim Severson Shares Her Olympic Story
Monday, July 18 2016
By Lauren R. Giannini The Olympic sport of eventing — consisting of dressage, cross-country and show jumping — has evolved since its debut for cavalry officers and their chargers at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. What hasn’t changed is the excitement of cross-country, the biggest spectator day. For riders with stars in their eyes, the
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Molly Ashe Cawley — Life, Love, Family & Horses
Thursday, June 02 2016
By Lauren R. Giannini Portraits by Isabel J. Kurek Jumper riders are “in it to win it” with a perfect score of zero, leaving the big fences up in an exciting race against the clock. Grand Prix is the ultimate in jumpers — not every equestrian’s game, but Molly Ashe Cawley loves it. Extremely competitive
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Equine Eco Green — Recycling Will Eliminate Mountains of Manure
Tuesday, March 08 2016
By Lauren R. Giannini Shelly Moore Townsend has designed a unique and environmentally sound solution for manure management: Equine Eco Green. Her unique process of “recycling” will eliminate mountains of manure in equestrian communities like Palm Beach and Wellington. It’ll also generate income and create jobs. It’s a win-win solution to a growing problem. One
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In It To Win It — Together
Wednesday, March 02 2016
By Lauren R. Giannini Gavin Moylan is thrilled with the direction his career has taken. He’s competing a really nice jumper in international Grand Prix. His students, equine and human, are doing really well, and horse sales are strong. He’s ready. It’s all been part of his plan. “About five years ago, I changed from
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Loyal Sweet Briar Community Fights to Save College
Friday, May 29 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini “Holla Holla Holla Nothing That You Cannot Do”: Sweet Briar College’s cheer can double as a battle cry. On March 3, 2015, the 114-year-old center of women’s learning seemed to be tottering on the brink of extinction when the blunt announcement appeared on SBC’s Facebook page that Sweet Briar, located near
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Cathy Wieschhoff: On the Right Course
Thursday, May 21 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini “It’s all great,” said Cathy Wieschhoff when asked what’s new and exciting with the CW Event Team based at her Carriage Station Farm in the heart of the bluegrass in Lexington, Kentucky. “The farm is going great — my barn is full and people are knocking on the doors. I’m totally
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Loreto Natividad Strives To Be the Best
Wednesday, May 20 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini Loreto Natividad takes his passion for polo very seriously. His all-out commitment to polo is a recurring theme among members of Team USPA who all agree that whatever challenges crop up, it’s totally worth every effort to play polo. “One challenge has been maturing as an adult and understanding that polo
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Dorothy Trapp Crowell: Bluegrass Born & Bred
Thursday, May 14 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini In the final decade of the 20th century, Dorothy Trapp Crowell rode into the record books with Molokai, her off-the-track Thoroughbred horse of a lifetime. Their extraordinary partnership harvested great international success in the “long format” era of three-day eventing. The four-part endurance test covered about 20 miles and consisted of
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Horse Capital of the World
Monday, April 27 2015
Lexington and The Kentucky Horse Park By Lauren R. Giannini The Kentucky Horse Park, dedicated to horses and their relationship with humans, is nestled north of Lexington. A veritable jewel, it comprises bluegrass, rolling pastures and paddocks behind white board fencing with tree-lined lanes that wind through its 1,224 acres. In 2010, the attention of
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