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Chris Stafford talks to riders, trainers, grooms, etc. from around the world of international equestrian sport.

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S7E1 - From Triathlon to Eventing

Courtenay Tuxhorn, 44, is an amateur 3-day event rider originally from Harwood, Maryland. She grew up working and riding on a family friend’s thoroughbred farm, galloping racehorses and dabbling in the hunters and jumpers. Her life revolved around the barn until she graduated college, when the reality of an entry-level job in a big city lured her out of the saddle and in search of new sports. She took up cycling and triathlon and raced professionally with some of the best women in the world. Som...

Jan 31, 2022•39 min

S6E10: Women Making Olympic Equestrian History

Irish journalist Louise Parkes joins Chris this week to share her experience and reflections on the Tokyo Olympic Games. Louise was the pen behind the press releases for the FEI in Tokyo and watched history being made at these unusual Games. The world too enjoyed watching as German women not only won dressage and eventing gold medals but also occupied seven places in the top ten of the dressage freestyle, including the top five spots. Eventer Julia Krajewski slid into the gold medal position aft...

Aug 27, 2021•36 min

S6E9: Catherine Reddick, Strides for Equality

Life-long horsewoman and eventer, Catherine Reddick, is part of the leadership team for a new organization that was established to create equitable opportunities for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) in the horse world. Strides for Equality (SEE) was founded by a group of women in 2020 to address access and opportunities in a sport that traditionally in some countries is perceived as elite and expensive. SEE has already built a network of partnerships and created a scholarship and gr...

Aug 20, 2021•24 min

S6E8: Sydney Collier's Paralympic Journey

With just over a week to go to the start of the Paralympic Games, athletes making their way to Tokyo include the horses for the Para-dressage competitions. These are divided into five grades depending upon the nature and extent of the impairment and the level of difficulty of the test they perform is relative to their allocated grade. Sydney Collier from Ann Arbor, Michigan is a Grade I rider and part of the U.S. squad currently in quarantine in Aachen, Germany as a traveling reserve. This is th...

Aug 13, 2021•22 min

S6E7 - Olympic Review with Sara Kozumplik Murphy

Eventer and coach Sara Kozumplik Murphy joins Chris this week to review the Olympic events so far with just the team jumping medals to be contested in the closing stages of the Tokyo Games. First Sara shares her impressions of the dressage in which women occupied the top five places with Germany’s Jessica von Bedahl Wendl (TSF Dalera) taking gold ahead of the legend that is Isabell Werth. Isabell announced after that her partner Bella Rose would be retired after these games. And in the team comp...

Aug 06, 2021•39 min

S6E6: Horses Teach Us to Overcome Adversity

This week our guest is Nicole Mandracchia who, like so many riders, has had her career with horses interrupted by injuries. First it was a hole in her patellofemoral ligament followed by a tear of the hip labrum. She has become a regular blogger for The Chronicle of the Horse sharing her stories from the horse world and how she has faced surgeries to repair her injuries and free her from pain. Nicole grew up riding in New Jersey and was a working student while in school. She has groomed and barn...

Jul 30, 2021•35 min

S6E5: Where There's a Will...

Angela Oakley knows the meaning of adversity having experienced a life time of challenges with her left leg. A practicing veterinarian in Grand Prairie, Alberta some 9 hours north of Calgary, she has had to adapt from being a large animal—mostly equine—practitioners to becoming a small animal vet. Over the course of her career she has gone from being a mid calf amputee to a mid femur amputee. Angela has had so many surgical procedures she has almost lost count, it’s well north of 20 by now. Bein...

Jul 23, 2021•27 min

S6E4 - Melissa Rides Again

Mellisa Davis Warden has had what can be best described as a tumultuous couple of years. From being a happy event rider and ultra marathon runner, a wife and mother, Mellisa experienced a life changing accident that started with a badly broken leg, eventually becoming so painful and with additional complications she was driven to make the toughest of decisions… to amputate below the knee. Fast forward two years this week since the cycling accident in Berlin that changed her world and Mellisa is ...

Jul 16, 2021•1 hr

S6E3: Cyndi Jackson's Riding and Running Goals

Arizona based dressage rider and trainer Cyndi Jackson would seem to have a full time job with ten horses in training and a roster of clients to teach. This is usually enough for most equestrians in a day. However for this 43 year old wife of Philip (aka PJ) and mother of seven year old Ronin, it’s a day that starts when most people are asleep at 3am. That’s the time Cyndi will be out on the trail, not riding but running for a couple of hours. Sometimes with a running partner and sometimes alone...

Jul 08, 2021•36 min

S6E2: Ema Klugman Eyes all Her Options

U.S. based Australian Eventer Ema Klugman started to turn heads this spring riding her seasoned partner Bendigo and making herself at home in her five-star debut where the pair finished 33rd. For the 23 year old to realize just one of her life ambitions with a horse she has had since she was 14 is the dream of many horse-mad girls. Her confidence and panache were evident as she galloped across the hallowed turf of the Kentucky Horse Park in an unusual year for sport. There were no crowds to chee...

Jul 02, 2021•36 min

S6E1 - Alison Robitaille Has a New Purpose

Alison Robitaille came within two seconds of winning this year’s Upperville Jumping Classic, the $213,000 finale to the prestigious Upperville Colt & Horse Show. But it was meaningful for the local rider nonetheless since this was her home show. A native Virginian, Alison has ridden on this turf all her life. She inherited her passion for horse sports and first made her mark on the U.S. Team when she was selected for the 1998 World Equestrian Games in Rome where she was the highest placed Am...

Jun 25, 2021•16 min

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