Is Your Performance Horse Ready for 2025?

Many of us have developed our 2025 competition plans by now, and at least some of us are working towards one or more marquee events. More of us still are looking forward to a fun and low-stress year in the company of our horses. Regardless of our goals, we all try to do the best to keep our sport horses pain-free and well throughout their performance careers. It is therefore timely that The Horse magazine has published an article this month called “Promoting Longevity in Performance Horses: A Comprehensive Look at Supporting Soundness to Help Sport Horses Perform Into the Years Ahead,” by Lucile Vigouroux, MSc. Vigouroux holds a Masters of Science in equine performance, health, and welfare from Nottingham Trent University in England. Her article covers the following topics: She also reports on the recent research about the most common forms of musculoskeletal lameness in the various disciplines, as ...
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Eventing Coaches Program on the Agenda at US Eventing’s 2024 Annual Meeting

Eventing

Did you know that US Eventing has a professional education program for coaches and trainers? It does — the US Eventing Coaches Program (ECP). Did you know that there are 12 ECP certified eventing coaches in Maryland? There are. You can see who they are under the USEA heading here. Did you know that the lack of credentials for many eventing coaches came up at the US Eventing Annual Meeting last week? It did. In stark contrast to our peer nations, the U.S. has no formal certification or licensing requirement for people who make a living with horses — except veterinarians at veterinary technicians. In the U.S., anyone can say they are a “trainer” or an “instructor” or a “coach,” whether they have the knowledge or ability to those jobs, and whether they are any good at those jobs. The result is too many instances of consumer confusion, unsafe riding, ...
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Maryland-Bred OTTB Wins Training Level American Eventing Championship

Eventing

Ameristan
Maryland-bred Thoroughbred mare Ameristan took home the title in the Junior Training division at the American Eventing Championships in Kentucky yesterday!Ameristan is by Cosa Vera (KY) out of Seeking Allie (VA) (Seeking Daylight (KY)), and was foaled in Maryland on April 8, 2017. She was piloted with great enthusiasm by Tessa Geven of Cataula, Georgia. Geven has evented through the Training level with Ameristan as well as her Irish Sport Horse gelding Caheradoo Jack (Jack’s Delight x Caheradoo Echo (Clover Echo). She has also ridden up through Junior Intermediate with her imported Hanoverian dressage gelding Sir Frederico (Sandro HIT x Donnerfree (Don Frederico)). But it was her Maryland-bred mare that put her over the top this weekend. Congratulations ladies! — this post first appeared on the Maryland Horse Council’s website —
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