TRY to describe Equitana to someone who has never been. Wikipedia says “Equitana is a trade fair organisation for equestrian sports. This...

AFTER Katy Brown notched up her fourth broken bone at the tender age of 10, her mum decided that if she couldn’t buy her daughter a safe...

RORY Hamilton, 17, was two years old when he climbed onto his sister’s pony while nobody was looking and has been riding ever since....

IN early 1957, Bert Jacobs, Eric Rundle, Joan Pearson and Mary Williamson called a meeting at Narre Warren to discuss the creation of an...

RIDERS in the northern part of Victoria have found it difficult to get to a central point to get their horses and ponies measured so an...

THE Sydney Regional Spring Show was certainly buzzing with action. Organizer Eliza Douglas said two events at the same Menangle Park...

AT just 29 years of age, Tom McDermott won his third senior Australian Showjumping title at Boneo Park last weekend. Tom, who also won in...

WESTERN Australia’s show season finished with a flourish with their Horse of the Year Show. Just over 100 horses competed, including...

IMAGINE being a talented, horse-loving teen stuck in the middle of a war. Instead of dreaming about representing your country at the...

GIVING a horse a suitable name is a lot harder than one would think. Show ponies get saddled with dreamy, reflective names, Welsh Pony...

SIMONE Pearce has risen to 24th position on the FEI Dressage Athlete Rankings, making her Australia's highest placed rider in the FEI...

BONEO Park on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is the centre of the equestrian world universe at present. It hosted the Australian...

BREEDERS from different states, let alone countries, don’t often get to line up to compete under the same judge and see how they compare....

WITH horse trials falling by the wayside in Victoria’s unseasonable spring, Victorian riders Sophie Fox, Teeghan Ashby and Belle Morrow...

THE Tasmanian horse community has been given a one-month reprieve after being cut off from the mainland following a decision by the...

ONE of Australia’s best known Warmblood studs is closing. Warrawee Stud’s Pat and Dick Ryan say the time has come to step away. “After...

THOSE of us old enough to remember Fred Wiltshire think of him with a smile. A larger-than-life, boisterous and strong-minded Irish...

THE Geelong Showjumping Club held its Spring Classic event last weekend. Despite a wet start, the sun came out and those who attended had...

AUSTRALIA’S own breed was out in force at the Moss Vale Australian Stock Horse Branch show at the Sugarloaf Equestrian Centre at...

JODIE McKeone is unstoppable. She was born into an extraordinary family of talented master saddlers and harness makers who have been...