Road to the AEC: Adriane Brownlee's Returned to Eventing with a Special Paint Mare
“Thanks, but we’re not looking for another horse right now.” Every horse owner knows exactly where those words will lead…to purchasing another horse! My horse purchase happened on my 21st birthday after looking for a hay supplier in January because we had run out. (The perfect time to ...
Road to the AEC: All That Glitters' Pony Power Brings Jenny McCann Back to Eventing
“I don’t know what to do with this pony!” I lamented, to my husband. It was October 2024, and I was frustrated, with no plan nor direction. “I have tried to sell her, but she’s not what people want for their kids right now.” She was just supposed to be a quick training project while I searched fo...
Road to the AEC: I’m Not Giving Up on My Dream, Just Changing the Path
My road to the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds looks a bit different this year than it has in previous years. My name is Diana Craven, and I am a 21-year-old three-day event rider.
Road to the AEC: Margo Goldfarb Balances Graduate School and Intermediate Eventing With Her Connemara Cross
I am heading to the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds on my 8-year-old Connemara/Thoroughbred cross Ridgetop Pirate Blue.
Road to the AEC: Eden Miller Makes the Switch to Eventing with a Special Partner
I’d like to preface my story by saying that I have been a 30-year hunter/jumper rider and trainer. I run a large training and lesson farm in Monroe, Georgia, and up until April of 2024, I would have considered myself a hunter/jumper through and through, and let me just say my world has been flipp...
Road to the AEC: Becky Crocket Reunites with a Special Homebred
My story began in July of 1995 when my parents bought my dream horse, B.B. Babauska, “Babs,” from Bruce Davidson when I was 17 years old. She was part of Bruce’s homebred program and related to the great JJ Babu.
Road to the AEC: An Intercollegiate Championship Triumph Sets Katie Mendes Up for AEC Success
Until this past May, qualifying for the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds let alone actually making plans to compete, seemed like a far-off dream. Going into this show season the AEC was a goal I had set in the back of my mind but maybe only said out loud a few times...
Road to the AEC: Telford Has Her Swan Song with a Special OTTB
As a young girl growing up in Connecticut, I had ponies and horses and was an active 4-Her. My family didn’t have a lot of money so my riding was primarily limited to 4-H and small sanctioned hunter shows. I was very fortunate that my parents supported my passion and my father, as a carpenter, bu...
Road to the AEC: Chalman and 'War Horse' Classic Greeley Are Headed to Kentucky
I have been working towards my goal of qualifying for AEC for quite some time now. I made the switch from hunters to eventing about eight years ago because I loved the adrenaline rush of cross-country. Although my family wasn’t able to buy a horse that had “been there, done that,” they have shown...
The Road to the AEC: Special Reserve Has Half the Sight But Twice the Passion of Most Event Horses
I am heading to the USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds on my 10-year-old thoroughbred Special Reserve (The Visualizer x Deco Jazz). "Chip" is special to me in so many ways but particularly because three years ago he lost total vision in his left eye. I bought him from...
