The horse subsequently galloped towards the side of the arena, where he stopped suddenly, throwing Von Eckermann forwards, head over heels into a piece of apparatus. The rider seemed to hit the ...

By Sarah Maslin Nir As show jumping ... going over set time allowed can add a fault per second over. While speed is the goal, it can also become an obstacle: a 1,200-pound horse going too fast ...

Heath Ryan has been provisionally suspended from national and international competition after a video surfaced on social ...

To accomplish this goal, they’ve selectively bred faster and more powerful Holsteiners over ... jumping, combined driving, and other sports. Dressage. This discipline tests the horse and rider ...

Equestrian is a sport of two hearts: the rider and the horse. Although Annie Goodwin ... accident while trying to jump over a training-level obstacle. She succumbed to her injuries shortly ...

On a crisp, clear morning, a chestnut thoroughbred thundered down the dirt strip at Churchill Downs, his exercise rider ... jumping and pulling as humans bred and trained them for various purposes ...

“For show jumping, just as a rider ... up over the decades (more than 300). In his telling, he was a simple “country boy” — happy to spend a week in New York for the National Horse ...

The Badminton Horse Trials ... stamina and jumping ability. The aim is to negotiate every obstacle in the optimum time, but the jumps are huge, and to the less experienced rider, utterly terrifying.

Other horse-and-rider pairs followed ... Horses honed skills such as running, jumping and pulling as humans bred and trained them for various purposes over millennia. And the 151st Derby ...