THE Olympic Games creed says: “The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight; the essential thing is not to have won, but...

WINTER Woollies shows are marvellous little events that pop up just like mushrooms all around the country. They are identified by hairy...

A SLIGHT 14 year-old-girl and a 14.3hh Riding Pony are not a pair you would expect to see sailing around the two-star cross country...

THE Tatura Dressage Club has held its second competition as a standalone group. It is one of many horse clubs around the state that is...

THE Victorian Young Rider and Development Squad in dressage is one of the success stories in equestrian sport. Catering for dressage...

A WARNING to safeguard horses against mosquito-borne diseases may seem out of place in the depths of winter but unusually wet conditions...

JOHN Patterson, known Australia-wide simply as Patto, is in hospital with a broken hip. The family of the much-loved former Clerk of the...

WHEN Stacie Robinson bought the little black and white Shetland Pony Lynvale Lodge Barbaro from the Vicary family she didn’t realise what...

IT’S not called endurance for nothing. Long hours in the saddle over testing terrain and in all weathers is challenging but tends to...

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...