Katrina Sadis, age 15, piloted the German Riding Pony to the title of 2014 USEF National Pony Rider Champion. (more…)
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SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Secretariat’s Belmont
As the decades wear on, our hopes for a modern Triple Crown victory grow dimmer. Watching Secretariat’s 31-length triumph in 1973, it’s impossible not to wonder: Could this ever happen again? (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: 2014 Shetland Pony Steeplechase at Devon
Specifically this week’s honor goes to pony Leo the Magnificent who, despite losing its rider somewhere along the way, managed to nearly win the race. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Jen Alfano & Jersey Boy
This pair’s winning round in Saturday’s $10,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at Old Salem Farm was poetry in motion. (more…)
SpectraVET Classic Performance of the Week: Sunday Silence vs. Easy Goer in the 1989 Preakness
Racing editor Heather Benson looks back at an epic showdown between two of racing’s fiercest arch-rivals. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Rosie Napravnik & Untapable
It was girl power x 2 in the Kentucky Derby’s sister race, the Kentucky Oaks, with Rosie racking up her second Oaks win in three years. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Dan James & Smart Little Elan
Dan James of Double Dan Horsemanship fame brought the audience to its feet on Saturday with his winning performance in the 2014 Kentucky Reining Cup Freestyle Championships. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Charlotte Dujardin & Valegro
Great Britain’s double Olympic gold medal winning duo broke their own world record to win the FEI World Cup Grand Prix in Lyon over the weekend. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Lauren Barwick
This demonstration by dressage paralympian Lauren Barwick at a recent Parelli Natural Horsemanship “Future of HorseManShip Tour” stop in Perry, Ga., is guaranteed to inspire. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: California Chrome in the Santa Anita Derby
The Cali-bred chestnut demolished the field on Saturday, winning the $1 million race by 5 1/4 lengths. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Peter Pletcher & Luxe
Take a note from this elegant pair, who won the $30,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby at Pin Oak over the weekend. (more…)
SpectraVET Perfomance of the Week: Chester Weber
Weber earned his 11th USEF National Four-in-Hand Championship over the weekend at the 2014 Live Oak International CDE. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Caroline Roffman and Her Highness
This pair might not have won last weekend’s Global Dressage Festival Grand Prix Freestyle, but their girl-powered soundtrack won my heart. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Game On Dude & Mike Smith
It was a showdown between three old rivals at the 2014 Santa Anita Handicap on Saturday, but the veteran 7-year-old got his due in the end. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Nicola Philippaerts
Incredibly tight inside turns, lightning-fast bursts of speed and an extremely careful horse produced a World Cup qualifier win for this young Belgian in Gothenburg, Sweden on Sunday. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Juan Matute, Jr. and Don Diego Ymas
This 16-year-old Spanish dressage phenom took silver at the 2014 Wellington Nations Cup CD103* last week. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Tori vs. Tori
We’ve already established that 16-year-old hunter/eq superstar Tori Colvin is a total freak of nature. Let’s advance that theory. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Ben Maher and Cella
The latest in the Chronicle of the Horse’s cool new series of split-screen jump-off videos shows Ben Maher chasing down victory, literally, on Saturday night in Wellington. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: FTI Consulting Great Charity Challenge
Every single fence these showjumpers cleared last weekend helped abused, abandoned and neglected kids. (more…)
SpectraVET Classic Performance of the Week: 1986 Eventing World Championships
Kate Samuels posted this video on Eventing Nation last week. Filled with thrills and spills, it’s too much fun not to pass along! (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: USEF 2013 National Horse of the Year, Brunello
A perfect hunter round, like this one from the 2013 USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship, is poetry in motion. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: USEF International Horse of the Year, Simon
When the USEF handed out its year-end awards last weekend, it came has no surprise that this show jumping phenom took top honors. (more…)
SpectraVET Classic Performance of the Week: Showjumping in the ’60s
Check out this fun vintage video featuring a young Beethoven, who would go on to win gold at the World Championships at La Boule in 1970. (more…)
SpectraVET Performance of the Week: Andrew Nicholson and Quimbo
When the USEF Network counted down its most-watched videos of 2013 last week, this Rolex cross-country run topped the list. (more…)
SpectraVET Classic Performance of the Week: Dorothy Crowell & Molokai
Last week the eventing world lost one of its great horses from the long format era. Molokai, here’s to you. (more…)