Upperville Horse Show Returns with a Buzz

168th UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW After being canceled last year to uphold COVID-19 protocols, the oldest horse show in the United States is back in ...

96th Running of the Virginia Gold Cup Races

96th Running of the Virginia Gold Cup Races Photos by John Nelson The 96th Running of the Virginia Gold Cup Races was held on Saturday, May 29th, 2021...

The Hunting Horn: It’s Not A Fox Hunt Without One

Written by Shayda Windle If it’s true what they say about a fox hunt not being one without a horn, then “The Hunting Horn: What to Know and How to Know It” ...

Local Health Coaches Reveal Their Top 10 Tips

Written by Shayda Windle | Photos by Jennifer Gray  With the New Year upon us, we are all searching for ways to improve our everyday lives, especially ...

Cubbing Season 2020

Photos by Joanne Maisano Blue Ridge Hunt Blue Ridge Huntsman, Graham BustonBlue Ridge HuntBlue Ridge HoundsBarb BattertonShannon Venezia Snickersville...

Remembering Marion “Joe” Smoak (July 8, 1916 – May 4, 2020)

Written by Dulcy B. Hooper To do justice to the life of Marion “Joe” Smoak would take a book . . . or two. As described by his daughter, Mary Frances Walde,...

New Education Center on National Mall To Provide Unique Visitor Experience, Modern Home for Horses

The Trust for the National Mall breaks ground to build new state-of-the-art facility for mounted patrols serving historic park

How Fox Hunting Saves the Land We Love

Learn how conservation groups, landowners, and fox hunts work together in Northern Virginia Written by Heidi Baumstark | Photos by Joanne Maisano   ...

Then & There: Hockey on Horseback – The Early Years of Polo in England

By Richard Hooper Under the heading of HOCKEY, a correspondent to the April 16, 1870, issue of “The Field,” a weekly English journal that billed itself as “...

Virginia Gold Cup 2020

Photos from the day by Joanne Maisano On Saturday, June 27 at Great Meadows, in The Plains, Virginia, the 95th Virginia Gold Cup ran with no spectators for ...