Practical Horseman Podcast

In this episode, brought you by Cosequin Equine, seven-time Olympian Phillip Dutton discusses how the sport of eventing has evolved since his first Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 to now, his most recent Olympics, in Tokyo in 2021. He also shares his thoughts on the future of eventing here in the United States and the direction he believes the sport needs to move in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

This week’s episode, sponsored by Purina, is with Carrie Kehring, the creator of the #WeRideTogether initiative. The goal of #WeRideTogether is to target sexual misconduct and abuse in equestrian sport, including how these issues often are ignored, minimized or wrongly blamed on the victim. Carrie was inspired to start the campaign as a result of her own family’s experience with sexual misconduct...

On this week’s episode we hear from riders who competed at the inaugural Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill. Only the second five-star in the United States, top-level eventers from around the world flocked to Elkton, Maryland, in October to try their hand at the brand new three-day event. Practical Horseman's Julia Murphy and Sandy Oliynyk were at the event and talked to several of the five-star competi...

This week's episode of the Practical Horseman Podcast, sponsored by  Horse Report System , is with international eventer Buck Davidson. At the inaugural Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, Buck spoke with co-host Sandy Oliynyk about his work ethic and belief that the horse comes first, the influential horses in his career, his training philosophy and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

In this episode sponsored by Horse Week, show jumping ace Adrienne Sternlicht explains the roles that mental strength and self-discipline play in her career. Her attitude and drive, coupled with the help of her top mount, Cristalline, have propelled Adrienne into the equestrian limelight. The successful 27-year-old has represented the United States on some of the biggest stages, including the 2018...

This week’s episode is with Kayleigh Davenport. Kayleigh is one of 45 international riders selected to compete in the longest and toughest horse race in the world— the Mongol Derby. For ten days each August, the Mongol Derby recreates Ghengis Khann’s legendary postal system from the 13th century. Over the course of 10 days and 1000 kilometers, Kayleigh will trace the iconic route by traveling alon...

This week’s episode is with Erin Brown, aka, the Concrete Cowgirl. Erin is the Executive Director at the Philadelphia Urban Riding Academy (PURA)—a nonprofit organization created to preserve the life, legacy and culture of Black urban cowboys in the city of Philadelphia. Due to gentrification, many of the stables that once made up the community of Black cowboys in Philadelphia are gone....

This week's episode is with Northern California hunter/jumper trainer Ned Glynn. Glynn is a well-respected trainer in hunters, jumpers and equitation as well as the owner of Sonoma Valley Stables in Petaluma, California. Glynn shares that the foundation for his success is threefold: solid horsemanship and strong business and people skills. His training philosophy centers on creating a consistent a...

For this week's Practical Horseman Podcast, young five-star eventing phenom Caroline Martin joined us on the show. From a young age, Caroline made her mark on the world of eventing as a rising star and future asset for U.S. teams. At just 17-years-old, she was named to the USEA High Performance Training List—making her the youngest equestrian to do so. By the age of 18, Caroline had won gold at th...

Accomplished 21-year-old show jumping talent Lucy Deslauriers was just named to the short list to represent the USA at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Shortly after being selected as one of ten riders on the list, Lucy sat down to speak with Practical Horseman about her journey as an equestrian from her early riding days at a summer camp on Long Island to how she feels about being selected to t...

Liz Halliday-Sharp is a powerhouse female athlete on the international eventing scene. After nearly 20 years in England training and making her name known in the sport, she returned to the states full-time in 2020. Following a massively successful season including nine international wins and an additional 16 national wins, Liz was named the 2020 U.S. Eventing Association’s Rider of the Year, makin...

Accomplished five-star eventer and Team USA member Doug Payne   is a man of many talents—he is a well-known international competitor, trainer, judge, coach and author. In this episode, Payne talks about his journey in the sport, his biggest mentors—Jim Wofford and Annie Kursinki—and three of his horses who are qualified for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Plus, Payne shares his favorite tr...

An accomplished international five-star event rider, Courtney Cooper is also well known for her domestic and consignment horse-sales program at her C Square Farm. In this episode, she talks about what you need to know if you’re planning to buy a horse from how to begin to how to try out a horse to what to consider in the bill of sale. She shares many details that will give you the b...

Irish eventer Tim Bourke grew up in Ireland and inherited his love of horses from his grandmother. He achieved an A-rating in Pony Club and later attended Gurteen College for equine studies and business. Upon graduation, Tim traveled to the United States to work for Bruce Davidson for two years, and later he worked for eventer Sharon White for about six years.  With his wife Marley Stone...

Ron Danta showed on the Illinois hunter/jumper circuit in the 1960s before heading south. He eventually landed in Camden, South Carolina, merging his training business with hunter rider, trainer and judge Danny Robertshaw. Several horses whom Ron trained were U.S. Equestrian Federation Horses of the Year, and he’s won over 20 hunter championships at top A-rated shows. For several years, he ch...

Katie Monahan Prudent’s stellar career in the hunter/jumper world began as a Junior with wins in both the AHSA National Hunter Seat Medal Final and the ASPCA Maclay National Championship followed by multiple championships in the hunter ring before she emerged as an international jumper star. A member of the 1986 gold-medal World Championship show-jumping team, she has won almost every major g...

Australian native Ryan Wood started competing in eventing at 8 years old. He completed his first CCI***** at Adelaide when he was 19 years old and continued to compete successfully throughout Australia, garnering top placings at Melbourne CCI****, Sydney CCI**** and Warwick CIC-W****. In 2008, Ryan moved to the United States and started working for Bruce Davidson before moving to Phillip Dutt...

Named an inductee to the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame in 2020, John French has won countless championship titles at prestigious shows around the United States. He’s a four-time winner of the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association World Championship Hunter Rider Professional Finals and he won the inaugural $100,000 ASG Software Solutions/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship riding Rumba...

Award-winning photojournalist Nancy Jaffer edited the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation’s book  Riding for the Team: Inspirational Stories of the USA’s Medal-Winning Equestrians and Their Horses . The book chronicles the lives of those who dreamed about competing for their country and “made it,” sharing inspirational stories from the eight equestrian disciplines of show jumping, dressage,...

After a self-funded successful Junior career, California hunter rider Nick Haness started his own training and sales business, Hunterbrook Farms in 2009. The next several years were filled with multiple top placings in the hunter divisions including back-to-back wins in the 2012 and 2013 WCHR Handy Hunter Challenge and the championship in the 2016 First Year Green divisions at the Devon Horse...

Based in Wellington, Florida, Geoff Teall has been involved in the horse industry for more than 40 years. He started out at age 8 foxhunting in upstate New York, learning from Mike Kelly and Gordon Wright. As a young professional, Geoff joined forces with many successful young trainers including Missy Clark and Kip Rosenthal. During this time, his student Laura Bowden won the 1991 AHSA National Hu...

Sarah Maslin Nir is a staff reporter for the  New York Times  and author of the book,  Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal , published in August 2020. Sarah describes her book as “a reported look at obsession”—the world’s obsession with horses as well as her own. Through solid reporting, Sarah allows readers to live vicariously through her first-hand...

Eric Navet represented France at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics after being partnered with J’t’adore just three months earlier. After that, he and his homebred Quito de Baussy enjoyed several years at the top of the sport. They earned individual and team gold at the 1990 World Equestrian Games, team gold at the 1991 European Championships, team bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and te...

Third-generation equestrian Hannah Isop teaches and trains at her family’s Harkaway Farm, in North Salem, New York, with her aunt, Tracy Freels, and her mother, Susie Isop, who manages the barn. Her grandparents, Jeri and Bob Freels, were both horse trainers. Hannah has earned top placings in many hunter and jumper divisions, including several wins in national and international hunter derbies, sec...

Finding and developing good sporthorses has been Don Stewart’s forte for 45 years in the business. During that time, he’s proven his expertise by winning innumerable championships as a rider and a coach at all the major shows, including Devon, the Pennsylvania National, the Washington International and at the National. As a rider, Don’s list of accomplishments is long and distinguished with many A...