Welcome to The Aiken Horse webpage, the online home of The Aiken Horse, a bimonthly magazine style newspaper serving the equestrian world in Aiken, SC and beyond. We have stories about horse people of all ages and disciplines, as well as stories about horses of all sizes, shapes and breeds. If it happens in the Aiken horse world, we will be there to cover it.
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Full Gallop farm offers a Hunter Trial schooling opportunity, Combined Tests, Schooling Jump rounds, or Dressage Test of choice
Progressive Show Jumping hosts Just For Fun Series Schooling Hunter/Jumper Horse Show at Highfields
Full Gallop Farm Schooling Dressage Test of Choice
Stable View hosts "Oktoberfest" FEI CCI-S 2/3/4 & USEF/USEA Horse Trials
Progressive Show Jumping hosts Hunter/Jumper Horse Show at Highfields
The Vista Schooling and Event Center has published its dates for 2022. Next up, Combined Test and Dressage on April 9.
The International event rider Tamie Smith of Temecula, CA will be teaching a clinic on the East Coast. The clinic will take place at Stable View in Aiken, SC on March 28, 29 and 30, 2022.
The biggest weekend of the fall season here in Aiken is upon us. There will be competitions and outings in at least six different disciplines, all right here in Aiken County. It’s the end of the polo season and the beginning of formal foxhunting. We also have combined driving, eventing, a hunter/jumper show, a hunter pace and barrel racing.
Alison Head as the judge. Following the clinic, Maite Bonet, who is the principle rider at the Son Martorellet Stud on the island of Menorca, will give a demonstration of Menorcan dressage, riding Zar, the only Menorcan horse in the United States.
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By Nancy Johnson, Photography by Pam Gleason Kelly Sigler Patterson never had any intention of importing and breeding horses. A professional horse trainer specializing in foundation work, she was very content running a teaching and training business at her Looking Glass Farm in Wagener. But then, about six years ago, Kelly was introduced to Menorcan…
The Best of the West Horse Sale is coming to the Aiken Training Track from October 1-2, 2021. Hand selected, top quality horses from qualified consignors. Read about the sale here.
Welcome to The Aiken Horse webpage, the online home of The Aiken Horse, a bimonthly…
Our April-May cover shows action in the Aiken Spring Steeplechase.
Our February-March cover shows Louise Hitchcock in the Hitchcock Woods, circa 1928. Mrs. Hitchcock’s name is indelibly linked to the venerable Aiken Horse Show in the Woods, celebrating its 106th anniversary this year. The show will be held April 1-3 in the Hitchcock Woods. Photo by Freudy
Our December-January 2021-2022 cover shows Santiago Lambre winning the $100,000 Split Rock Jumping Tour Grand Prix at the Aiken Horse Park this November.
Photography by Pam Gleason
Our October-November 2021 cover shows Daniel Geitner aboard Vesta de Lavardin winning the $30,000 Aiken Fall Grand Prix at the Aiken Horse Park this September.
Photography by Gary Knoll
Our August-September cover shows Doug Payne on Vandiver going down the Mt. Fuji Drop, Olympic eventing, Tokyo Olympics 2020. Photography by Shannon Brinkman.
