United States Eventing Association

As a course designer, Morgan Rowsell is accustomed to watching hundreds of riders compete on the cross-country tracks he has created, but observing the riders on course at the Flora Lea Spring Horse Trials over Memorial Day weekend was a new experience for him.

When Alexa Lapp started working for eventer Jennie Brannigan in 2012, the plan was to help out for a month or two until Brannigan found full-time help. Lapp traveled from her home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Ocala, Florida in the winter of her Junior year of high school, having finished a substantial amount of school credit in her Freshman and Sophomore years and completing her schooling with a combination of on-campus and online courses.

This has been a year of extreme highs and lows for Millbrook, N.Y. rider and trainer Booli Selmayr, 29, who runs Fox Valley Sport Horses.

I was the typical horse crazy young girl and started riding when I was about 11 years old. My first instructor was Sharon Anthony, who received the Governor's Cup Appreciation Award at the 2016 USEA Annual Meeting and Convention.

Spokane Sport Horse Farm's Second Annual Spring event which was held from May 12-14, 2017 was very honored to host Washington residents Mary Sawyer and her longtime companion Broker's Joker, a 28-year-old black/white Paint gelding by The Stockbroker and out of Regal Rose Gold.

It's always so cliché to say "that it was love at first sight" but seeing the scrawny, gangly, hot mess of a horse that was Salisbury Knight truly was love at first sight.

Growing up on a farm in South Dakota, Darci Phelps never imaged that she’s end up galloping across a sandy cross-country course in southern California years later. 

Galway Downs International was a family affair for Linda and Terry Paine, who operate a sport horse breeding program at their own KingsWay Farm in Temecula, Calif. Three full siblings, all products of The Paine’s breeding program, were entered to compete: Gin & Juice, Happy Hour and Five O’Clock Somewhere

In 2008, a sweet-faced gelding had his 41st career start at Suffolk Downs. After three years on the track and over $40,000 in earnings, this cheeky Thoroughbred seemed to already have a lifetime’s worth of experiences.

Philippa Kate Humphreys age 33, of Rockford, MI died tragically while competing in the CCI*** competition at the Jersey Fresh International Three-Day Event on Saturday, May 14, 2016.