New Mexico State University, along with the New Mexico State Athletic Department, announced July 13 that it would discontinue sponsorship of the equestrian team, effective with the 2016-2017 season. 

Lexington, Ky.—May 7  

If you wanted to bet the odds on favorite in the Cacchione Cup, you would have picked Chase Boggio, and you’d be cashing in a win ticket.

While the Kentucky Derby festivities began in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday, Boggio was 67 miles north in Lexington’s Alltech Arena cleaning house at the IHSA National Championships. After securing the open over fences championship on Thursday, Boggio led wire to wire in the three phase USEF Cacchione Cup Friday and Saturday.

Lexington, Ky.—May 6   

In the sea of IHSA horses milling around the warm-up area, Remington is hard to miss. He’s big, he’s so dark he's almost black, and with his gorgeous white markings, he looks like romance novel cover material. "Remi" is a Shire-Thoroughbred cross, not a breed you see every day in the hunter/jumper world.

But that didn’t stop Remi from jumping a spot-on round with Emily Kowalchik to help her win the alumni over fences class. 

There isn’t an award for the busiest student at the IHSA National Championships, but if there were, it would go to Shelby Cashman. Captain of both the English and Western IHSA teams at Centenary College (N.J.), and daughter of IHSA vice president and coach of the West Point (N.Y.) team, Peter Cashman, Shelby is as diverse a rider as she is busy.

“[My parents] both coach at West Point now, and when they started there they had to teach both English and Western, so it was just part of growing up,” Shelby said. “We always did both.”

Lexington, Ky.—May 5  

Graduating from college, getting your first "big kid" job, moving up to the open level at IHSA—this period of IHSA riders' lives is all about growing up.

But IHSA National Championships open over fences national champion Chase Boggio didn’t forget where he came from when he trotted into the Alltech Arena for the work-off, moving up from second place to snag the championship. One of the first people he accepted congratulations from was his childhood trainer Christina Schlusemeyer.