Sönke Rothenberger at 21 years old and Cosmo aged nine have made as the youngest combination ever on a German team at the Olympic Games as much by instinct and what works riding jumpers as with classical dressage training…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 6, 2016–Great Britain’s William Fox-Pitt, two weeks in a coma after a head injury last fall, took the lead after the first of two days of Olympic evening dressage Saturday…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 5, 2016–The first Olympic Games in South America opened Friday night with 205 teams parading in the famous Maracana soccer stadium after the horse inspection for eventing that kicked off equestrian competition that includes dressage and…
RIO DE JANEIRO, All five Russian equestrian athletes–including two dressage riders–have been cleared by the International Olympic Committee to compete at the Games in Rio de Janeiro opening this week, the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) reported Thursday…
Three years ago, some Americans came to try a horse for sale at the stables of Sven and Gonnelien Rothenberger in Frankfurt, their son Sönke watching but not saying a word until they were leaving without making an offer…
The Olympic competition and warm-up arenas at the equestrian stadium in Deodoro, one of the major complexes of the first Games to be held in South America…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 3, 2016–“Impressive,” was the verdict Wednesday of Great Britain’s Carl Hester of the Olympic equestrian venue at Deodoro where dressage begins next week…
Mark Bellissimo, managing partner of Tryon Equestrian Partners, announced Tuesday that Tryon International Equestrian Center in North Carolina is working with the United States Equestrian Federation to keep the 2018 World Equestrian Games in North America…
German team riders and horses Kristina Bröring-Sprehe and Desperados, Isabell Werth and Weihegold and Dorothee Schneider and Showtime are No. 1, 2 and 3 in the final pre-Olympic world rankings posted Tuesday by the International Equestrian Federation FEI). Three of…
