Articles

Ordinary Jump Poles Make Extraordinary Training Tools, Gabriella Valsecchi
I’ve worked with cavalletti all my life, starting with hunters when I was a child. I had a very creative British instructor, Judy Whiting. She had us kids doing every kind of cavalletti and pole combination she could think of so her students and their mounts would be flexible when negotiating jump courses. It was great fun and our show results of numerous blues reflected its effectiveness.

French Appeal in the Super Bowl for Hunter Riders, Diana DeRosa
“Horses like John French,” remarked Jack Towell of Camden, S.C., one of five judges who scored French as the 2000 Chronicle of the Horse Professional World Championship Hunter Rider on Oct. 6. French finished with a high-point total of 360.80. The championship was sponsored by Carol and Gordon Stillwell, of Stillwell Hansen, Inc., was presented by the American Hunter Jumper Foundation and hosted during the Capital Challenge Horse Show at the Prince George’s Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Md.

Prince Charming: A Personal Look at David O'Connor, Rita Juanita Mock
For equestrian sports, such as three-day eventing, to gain the mass following that, for example, football and movies enjoy, it needs more charismatic personalities like 2000 Olympic Individual Eventing Gold Medallist, David O’Connor.

Read an interview with Next Day Jumps' Dan Swofford, featured in Ride! Magazine's June issue