Interviews

The drinks were flowing and the mid-afternoon Friday party at the USEA Annual Meeting and Convention was in full swing today at the Year End Awards Luncheon, hosted by Max Corcoran and Jim Wolf. This year’s USEA Annual Meeting is hosted in the positively lovely Savannah, GA, and while I’ll have to book another trip…

It’s often said that four-leaf clovers bring good luck, and Valerie Vizcarrondo Pride is particularly adept at finding them. The Maryland-based FEI five-star rider, trainer and “S” judge—and owner/operator of the aptly-named Blue Clover Eventing—is chasing dreams and creating her own luck as she excels in the grueling sport of eventing. “I guess if I…

By Katherine O. Rizzo (first published in the October 2022 Equiery) Often while spectating at large international competitions such as the Washington International Horse Show (October 24-30 at Prince George’s Equestrian Center, Upper Marlboro) and the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill (October 13-16 at Fair Hill Special Events Zone, Fair Hill), one can be…

Photo by Abby Powell Valerie Pride at the MARS Bromont CCI – June, 2022 Eventing Nation (published June 11, 2022) Overnight leaders Sara Kozumplik took a tumble from Rubens d’Ysieux — the result, Sara wrote later on, of trying to add an additional stride and prompting Rubens to slide down onto his hocks to pat…

Behind The Stall Door With: Favian by Erin Harty (first published in the January 6, 2022 Chronicle of the Horse) Click To Read

Valerie Pride & the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill by Katherine O. Rizzo (first published in the December 2021 Equiery) Click To Read

In 2016 the USEA established two educational scholarships in memory of the late Roger Haller to address the urgent need of training new officials who can serve at the highest levels of the sport. Increasing the pool of eventing officials was one of the reasons Haller devoted so much of his time to addressing the…

USEA PODCAST FEATURING VALERIE and a successful fall 2015 season for the one, the only, Willie Wiggins! Click here so you can listen to the entire interivew and get the behind the scene’s on Alex Peterson’s horse of a lifetime…and why she is going to have to fight Valerie to get him back 😉