IT’S called by several names – working equitation, xtreme equitation, three-phase equitation – but they are all variations of a...

MOST Standardbreds used to face an uncertain future at the end of their racing days, but how things have changed. The numbers of...

COMMENT IT LOOKS like the horse-riding element of the pentathlon is finished after the first test event of the new format without...

THE World Equestrian Festival at Aachen, Germany, does it so well. So much to see, so much to do at an event where the best in the world...

THE NSW Interschools event was cancelled two days into competition because the state was again experiencing flooding in several areas...

THE much-loved head of the Pony Club Association, Kay Irving, is remembered by Victorian pony clubbers through the annual Pony Club...

DENILIQUIN is a large town in the fertile southern Riverina region of south-central NSW. It lies on the Edward River (a branch of the...

THE Ovens Valley Classical Riders Club’s best laid plans for their Winter Woollies Show nearly didn’t happen. Not once but twice. Plans...

WINNING a ribbon at a show is always fun, but the biggest thrill of all is to take home one of David Calbert’s magnificent floral...

DRESSAGE is a major equestrian sport in Australia, but it wasn’t always so. The first competition was held at Royal Melbourne Show in...

GO to any horse event and you will see dogs. Beady-eyed cattle dogs guarding trucks, Labradors sharing ice-creams with toddlers, Jack...

LET’S hear it for the girls. In showjumping, Lauren Balcomb and Verdini D' Houtveld Z took out the $140,000 1.50m grand prix at the CSI3*...

THE dressage and showjumping grand finals for this year’s Victorian Equestrian Interschools Series have been held over two days at...

A KEEN group of Tasmanians has travelled to the mainland to complete an eventing circuit around Victoria to qualify both riders and their...

DUNOLLY Horse Activity Club is one of the many groups all over the country that are finally getting back into action after the long...

AUSTRALIA’S para-equestrian athletes are beginning to put the necessary scores in for a team place at the FEI World Championships. Both...

EQUESTRIAN Australia has announced the Australian team for the invitation-only CDIO5* Nations Cup competition at the CHIO Aachen...

FOR many, Darwin and the Top End is a bit of mystery. Included in the many things that southerners don’t realise about the place is that...

THE Australia-wide rule to prevent the removal of whiskers from horses’ noses and eyebrows comes in to effect from July 1. There has been...

QUALIFYING for a competition like the Melbourne Three-Day-Event is 90 per cent of the challenge. Not dissimilar to any major event,...