Postcard from Rolex 2005: Cross-Country
…penalty-free rounds today under gray skies. A small field of 35 starters shrank to 26 finishers over the 11.4-mile test that also included roads and tracks and steeplechase–possibly for the…
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Will US Eventing Make the Cut for Athens
…any further changes in the Olympic format so long as the IOC requirements remain unchanged. This means that the roads and tracks and steeplechase phases are safe for at least…
Rest In Peace–Horse Burials in the Park
…at the park). The Steeplechase Course At the finish line is the grave of Jay Trump, a legend in steeplechase circles and one of the greatest equine Cinderella stories of…
The Only Way To Get Better Is To Ride More
…more.” During the years that I rode steeplechase races, I would run 5, 6 or more miles four days a week. Unfortunately, that simple solution isn’t always practical or even…
The Next Career for Thoroughbreds
…a steeplechase trainer friend of mine, and we really did walk from barn to barn looking at horses. We found this attractive and quiet 3-year-old (prophetically named Lazy Runner), watched…
When You?re Cross-Country Schooling, Put The Jumps Together
…trailer, I brought Amani along too. The other reason I thought this could be a worthwhile experience for Amani is that Marshall has put four steeplechase fences along a galloping…
How To Save The Preliminary Three-Day Event
…in the T3DE, it makes it worthwhile to him to set up the steeplechase and roads and tracks?and get the volunteers to man those phases?even if he gets only half…
Postcard: 2008 National Show Jumping Championship
…the shows for Wellington Equestrian Partners (WEP)] ran a highly successful steeplechase at the end of November. Mark Bellissimo, WEP’s managing partner, hoped some of the 5,800 people who came…
Postcard: 2004 Fair Hill Cross-Country
…steeplechase and one without. But it was transformed into one event “without” after three times as many people entered that format as they did the longer version. Even absent the…
We Should All Be Funding Equine Medical Research
…in the near future, to develop new and improved therapies: When I was riding steeplechase races, every one of my horses, and most of the others that I rode, too,…