Skyler Norris Comes Full Circle with Advanced Debut at Ocala
For Skyler Norris, the Florida Horse Park in Ocala is more than just another competition venue. It’s where she first discovered the thrill of eventing as a little girl and where she’s spent countless weekends competing, learning, and chasing her dreams.
USEA Foundation Sponsors New Emergency Response Training Video Series for the Equestrian Community
The United States Eventing Association (USEA) Foundation is excited to share that The Game Plan: Emergency Response in Equestrian Sports, a new free educational video series designed to improve emergency preparedness and response in both eventing and throughout the equestrian community, ...
Moriah Orms and the Power of Patience
A few weeks ago at the Tryon International Horse Trials (Mill Spring, North Carolina), Moriah Orms headed out on Clayton Fredericks’ influential CCI4*-L cross-country course knowing it would demand accuracy and confidence. Riding Shanaclough Quality Clover—her 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse geldin...
Borton Comes Full Circle at The Event at TerraNova CCI1*-S
It was a full-circle moment for Addison Borton when she competed in the CCI1*-S at The Event at TerraNova, held March 26-29 in Myakka City, Florida. Just 11 years old, Borton rode Way Too Marvelous BSR to fourth-place finish in her first international event—three years after her first ever USEA-r...
Alec Lochore and the Art of Building an Olympic Cross-Country Course
When Alec Lochore first walked the grounds of Santa Anita Park as a prospective Olympic venue, he wasn’t imagining himself as the designer of the 2028 Olympic cross-country course. “I’d been to the venue before,” Lochore said. “I understood the challenges the course designer was going to face, bu...
Thinking Big Picture with RevitaVet USEA Young Rider of the Year Meg Pellegrini
For Meg Pellegrini, 2024 was a year of transition. She’d started to train with Olympian Will Coleman and his wife, Katie Coleman, as she was eyeing the upper levels of the sport and admits she was struggling at the Intermediate level. But by the end of the year, a top-10 finish at the CCI3*-L at ...
In Memoriam: Sandra McDonald (1962-2026)
The USEA is saddened to hear of the passing of our 2022 Ironmaster Award recipient Sandra McDonald (Aiken, South Carolina). She was 63.
Leslie Law and Lesley Grant-Law: Same Names, Same Love for Eventing
Leslie Law’s life forever changed in 2004. As a member of the British eventing team, Leslie won the individual gold medal and team silver at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics aboard Shear L’Eau. That fall, he met Canadian eventer Lesley Grant when he traveled to Toronto, where he participated in a ...

























