It Isn’t Just Horses Jumping in Wellington For Phoebe Weseley, owner of River Run Farm, the grass (jumping field) has always looked greener from the other side of the road, or in this case, the canal.  “Since moving to Palm Beach Point four years ago, I have always admired the farm across the canal from […]

Kudos to your editors for “The Perfect Horse World,” the most interesting article I have read in your magazine in a long time. Your ideas were spot on: Now how do they get implemented? The money we non-professional members pay to U.S. Equestrian Federation in fees would be put to good use by solving some […]

My name is Phoebe Weseley and I own River Run Farm, LLC. I am an amateur rider who has owned my own farm for over 20 years. I grew up in Manhattan as the daughter of two doctors. When I was a teenager, my parents were in upstate NY and saw a skinny neglected Arabian […]

Kristin Frishman on the purchase of Bella Fiona. Shama Alghurain on the purchase of Holland. Kayla Walker on the purchase of Middlemarch. Special thanks to Krista Olson and Point of View Farm, Genuine Farms and Vasile Zirnoveanu.

East Dorset, Vermont – Colin Syquia of Forest Hills, NY, won the $5,000 3’3” NEHJA Hunter Derby, presented by Eastern Hay, on Thursday, July 20, during week three of the six-week Vermont Summer Festival, running through August 13 at Harold Beebe Farm in East Dorset, VT. Course designer Gerry Briggs of Smyrna, TN, designed the […]

After reading “The Information Vacuum in U.S. Breeding,” (March 7 & 14, p.26) I’d like to say, wouldn’t it be nice if we could all go to the U.S. Equestrian Federation competition results column, search a stallion or mare, and find the show record of the progeny? In this day and age that shouldn’t be […]

When Phoebe Weseley won the WIHS Adult Hunter Finals on ‘Just Ask Me’ in 2010, and had continued success in that division, she was ready to move up. A new 3’3” Amateur-Owner Division would be underway in 2012, so she set out to find a new hunter. The search started, as many do, in Florida […]

Put that altogether and what do you have? This week it’s Reserve Champion at the USEF Pony Finals, Green Medium Pony division with over 70 entries. The pony is Brighton Heartbreaker, a 6-year-old Welsh cross, and this was her ninth show ever. The rider was the talented Daisy Farish, a 13-year-old competing in her seventh […]

Jennifer Wood Media Washington, D.C. –  The 52nd annual Washington International Horse Show began today with hunter competition for professional and amateur riders, who had the first classes of their divisions and finish for championships tomorrow. In the evening session, children’s and adult hunter riders reigned the ring. After four years of competing in the […]