The Chronicle of the Horse has been purchased by Mark Bellissimo, whose Wellington Equestrian Partners LLC owns and operates the Winter Equestrian Festival as well as the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Founded in 1937, the Chronicle of the Horse has been owned for the past 61 years by the Ohrstrom family of The Plains, […]
Zara Phillips, the Queen’s 32-year-old granddaughter, has announced that she and husband Mike Tindall are expecting their first child in the New Year. Approximately three months along, Phillips, who was a member of the silver medal winning British eventing team at the 2012 London Olympics, will continue to ride for the time being. She is […]
Are your kids already bored this summer? Have them break out the art supplies and enter Horsepower’s Fantasy Art Contest to win great prizes! Kids can draw or paint a fantasy horse of any sort for the chance to win a prize from Can-Pro. First prize is an IRH Equi-Lite Fashion helmet and second prize is […]
Dressage Canada has received a generous private donation of $500,000. Offered in annual donations of $125,000 over the next four years, the money is to be used towards the High Performance Priorities identified at the High Performance Summit held in Florida this past March. The first ever summit of its kind for Dressage Canada brought […]
It was announced on June 28th, that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has granted an application by New Mexico’s Valley Meat Co. to convert its beef processing plant into a horse slaughter house. In doing so, the company will become the first licensed to operate in this manner since Congress effectively banned horse slaughter in […]
Proud horse show dad, Bill Gates, otherwise known as the richest man in American, has purchased a home in Wellington, Florida, close to the Winter Equestrian Festival show grounds where his teenage daughter competes each winter. After spending $1.1 million in house rental fees the past two seasons, Gates decided to purchase a home in […]
Organizers of the Calgary Stampede say the show will go on “come hell or high water.” Crews are working to ready the flooded grounds for the opening of the Calgary Stampede, which president Bob Thompson says will run as scheduled, July 5-14. “We have pumped millions of gallons of water from our facilities, scraped the […]
Ian Roberts of Port Perry, ON, suffered a fractured pelvis, concussion and a large hematoma on his abdomen as the result of a fall from Faolan in the CIC3* at the Volvo Bromont CCI3* Three-Day Event on June 8th. The bay Irish sport horse gelding owned by Kelly Plitz fell after jumping fence 17, but […]
Poor weather conditions during the Nations’ Cup at the CSIO St. Gallen, Switzerland, held May 30-June 2, led to the disqualification of the German show jumping team from the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup Final in Barcelona. Due to the weather, and concerns over footing, the Organization Committee and the chefs d’equipe decided to alter the […]
Canadian eventer Anne Zander died today, May 24, 2013, after a courageous battle with cancer. Anne was a staunch supporter of the Ontario Horse Trials Association serving as a director of the association. As a competitor Anne was very successful. Starting with Dr. Broom (who was banned from the race track for being badly behaved), […]
