MEET DAVID BOTANA Meet 16-year-old David Botana, a Grade I international Para Dressage rider. He competes on the US Para Dressage Team with his partner Locksley, the 17-year-old Trakehner stallion owned by Margaret Stevens and campaigned by Susanne Hamilton in ...
United States Dressage Centers of Excellence A conversation with USEF Director of Para Dressage, Laureen Johnson What are Centers of Excellence (COEs)? About three years ago, Will Connell, who is from Great Britain and is now our sport director, suggested ...
—Jessica Ehlert It’s no secret that the Palm Beach Equestrian Center is a favorite venue for elite equestrian competitors. More than 7,000 horses—with a collected net value of over half a billion dollars—arrive in Wellington, Florida each January to embark ...
—Jessica Ehlert When I groomed for a few of Joe Fargis’s clients at WEF in 2012, I was given the job of doing his daily whiteboard maybe a handful of times. The first time, he stood next to me holding ...
— Jessica Ehlert We can speculate why the equine industry’s been slow to adopt new technologies: perhaps it’s our fragmented market deeply divided by disciplines (did you know Western Dressage is a thing?) or maybe it’s our deeply ingrained traditions ...
Georgina Bloomberg is one of the EQUUS Foundation’s original #EQUUStars. Longtime supporter of animal welfare and longtime friend of the vegan boot’s impetus, Valerie Angeli, we caught up with Georgina to get her take on the final product. EQ AM: ...
Clementine Goutal is an EQUUS Foundation #EQUUStar and a member of the Der Dau vegan boot line’s research and development team. EQ AM: How did you get involved with the EQUUS Foundation? Clementine: I’m a partner at Upper Echelon Academy ...
—Carina Roselli All horses, even champions of the racetrack and the show ring, are only one unlucky sale away from abuse, neglect, and slaughter. Tens of thousands of horses become “at-risk” each year. In 2018 alone, over 81,000 horses were ...
Top U.S. show jumper, Georgina Bloomberg, sponsors U.S. Paralympic rider, Sydney Collier. Georgina has been supporting her in her bid to represent the United States at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. One way she showed her support was by procuring ...
EQuine AMerica had a conversation with FEI dressage rider Olivia Lagoy-Weltz in the lead up to the World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. Olivia was selected as the Traveling Alternate for the US Dressage Team. We asked her about herself, her ...