As soon as she loosened the reins, Isabell Werth’s face became twisted with emotion. It was perhaps one of the most meaningful rides of her career, as she had just laid down an unbeatable test on Bella Rose, her “dream...
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For over 40 years, Blyth Tait has been an integral member of the New Zealand Eventing Team. Blyth won two gold medals at the inaugural World Equestrian Games in Stockholm in 1990, and has made many an appearance on the...
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With his World Equestrian Games debut as the New Zealand Eventing High Performance Manager, Graeme Thom is looking forward to seeing how the week plays out for his team of established veterans. Named as the High Performance Manager in 2017, the Canadian-born eventer says that this group “is the best group of people I’ve ever met in my entire life.” As for the competition, Graeme is excited to see how the new short-course format in cross-country will pan out.
"I went to the 2006 WEG in Aachen, but this is a different level as far as cross-country goes – it’s a shorter course so we’ll see how that plays out. It is going to level the playing field quite a bit. If you go back in the past 40 years, there’s only
It surprised almost no one when the German dressage team came out, dressage guns-a'blazing on day one of competition of the FEI World Equestrian Games. Germany is synonymous with dressage excellence, and even though many of the biggest stars from...
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When you think there can’t possibly be more, it seems as if Mclain Ward keeps pulling superstar mares out of his hat. There was Sapphire, then HH Azur, and now Clinta. With the looks of a unicorn and the scope...
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