The Horse of Delaware Valley

Riverdee Stables' Cool Jet, trained by Jack Fisher, won the Steeplechase Eclipse Award

Details: January 24, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

PALM BEACH, Fla.--Riverdee Stable's Cool Jet (Ire), a three time winner in 2025, was announced as the Steeplechase Eclipse Award winner during the awards dinner at the Breakers Hotel on Thursday, Jan. 22.

Cool Jet leads pver last in Commonwealth Cup Cool Jet leads over last in the G! Commonwealth Cup (Photo by Tod Marks)Trained by Jack Fisher, Cool Jet won the G1 Commonwealth Stakes at the Gold Cup in May, and the G3 Mariann de Tejeda Memorial Stakes and the G3 Noel Laing Stakes at Montpelier in November.

There were eight grade one stakes in 2025, and eight different horses won.

Cool Jet was the only one of the three nominees to win more than one graded stakes, and he received 119 votes to 51 votes for Zanahiyr (Ire), the Irish invader who ran only once in the U.S. and won the G1 American Grand National at Far Hills, and 14 votes for Swore, trained by Keri Brion, who won the G1 Lonesome Glory.

Despite Cool Jet's dominant results, Sean Clancy, who manages the four man syndicate that owns Cool Jet, said of winning, "I had done by own polling, but it's hard to be confident. I was worried about Zanahiyr. But I did feel Cool Jet was deserving."

"I told Sean to watch out for Zanahiyr," said Fisher, who had had Snap Decision lose to Hewick, who had also run only once here and won at Far Hills.

Snap Decision did later win the Eclipse Award for Fisher, who now had six Eclpse Awards.

Aaron Vale won the $200,000 Grand Prix at WEC

Details: January 19, 2026; By Staff Writers

OCALA, Fla.--Aaron Vale on Carissimo 25 won the $200,000 Grand Prix CSI4* under the lights on Saturday evening, Jan. 17 at the World Equestrian Center.

Aaron Vale on Carissimo 25 Ocala Anddrew Ryback Aaron Vale on Carissimo 25 (Photo by Andrew Ryback)A field of 34 representing 13 nations competed over the course set by Anderson Lima of Mexico, with eight going clean to advance to the jump-off.

Israel’s Daniel Bluman on Corbie V.V. was the first to go in the jump-off, following his win in Thursday’s $62,500 Grand Prix Qualifier CSI4* with his other mare, Gemma W.

“It’s always hard when you have to go first in the jump-off, and you have several fast riders coming after you,” Bluman said. “My plan with ‘Corbie’ was to hold her in the beginning so I could let her go at the end. If I start a little bit too fast, then I would lose a bit of my control, but overall, she jumped amazing.”

Bluman set the time to beat with a clean round in 37.96 seconds and put pressure on the remaining contenders.

World No. 8 Nina Mallevaey of France on My Clementine was next to go, but despite leaving out strides in nearly every line, she finished just one-tenth of a second behind Bluman in 38.07 seconds.

“This is the first show back this year for My Clementine,” Mallevaey said, “I’ve been riding her for about two years now, and when she gets in the ring she’s a real fighter. It’s our first show of the year, and we didn’t miss anything!”

Candid Photos Honorable Mention by Jan Cobb

Details: January 12, 2026; By Staff Writers

Jan Cobb of Upper Black Eddy, Pa., took this photo.

This is my husband Gary Sholtis and his 18-year-old molly mule Dottie," said Cobb. "Dottie is asking for cookies."

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Candid Photos Honorable Mention by Judith Jefferis

Details: January 12, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Judith Jefferis of Kennett Square, Pa., and Clark, Wyo., took this photo, using her pet hostein cow as a novel way of getting a Christmas tree home.

"My ranch manager, Jerry Hill, riding Numbers- using Leroy as a “pack horse” to bring in his Christmas tree," saod Jefferis of her ranch manager in Wyoming.

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Candid Photos Honorable Mention from Virginia Lippincott

Details: January 10, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Now that the Candid, Action and Pets winners have been announced,we return to Candid Photos Honorable Mentions.

There are so many very good photos that there is no particular order to these Honorable Mention Photos.

Almost all have been separated by venues, subject and photographers only, not by how good they were judged to be.

A few of them could easily have been winners.

This first Candid Honorable Mention was sent in by Virginia Lippincott.

The picture here was taken of Nancy Marcinko at Liberty Archery Clinic at Turn Key Equestrian in in Quakertown, Pa.

In the clinic archers were shooting arrows to at least 4 targets while trotting on horseback.

This photo was taken by an unknown/unnamed bystander.

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Pets Photos third place winner is Laura Hirth

Details: January 9, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Laura Hirth of Harleysville, Pa. placed third in Pets with this photo of her OTB thoroughbred Petey and her Australian shepherd.

"They look like they're talking to each other," said Hirth.

"I've had Petey for four years, and I trail ride him," said Hirth. "He loves dogs. I have six Australian shepherds. Ryder is an elite trick dog. He did tricks like opening a gate, getting my boots and riding a skateboard for the competiton. He also did agility."

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Pets Photo second place winner is Cheryl Allerton

Details: January 8, 2026; By Staff Writers

Cheryl Allerton of Douglassville, Pa. took this photo of her dog and cat, Echo and Clover, that she entitled "Line Dancing."

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Pet Photos first place winner is Carol Dicicco

Details: January 7, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Carol Dicicco of Chalfonr, Pa., won first place in Pets Photos with this photo of a herd of horses.

"This was taken on a ranch in Colorado," said Dicicco. "The wranglers were chasing them in to eat breakfast.That's dust hanging over them."

"This was a huge property," she said. "I would call it a vacation ranch, as it had a lot of activities like fly fishing along among with riding."

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Action Photos second place winner is Andi Bates

Details: January 5, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Andi Bates of Glen Mills, Pa., took this photo of a game at the Brandywine Polo Club in Kennett Square, Pa.

"I started going to polo games about two years ago," said Bates. "This was the last game of the season. This photo is of riders from two different teams fighting for the ball." action polo 4 riders Bates

Action Photos first place winner is Dianne Rose

Details: January 5, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Dianne Rose of Yardley, Pa. won Action Photos with this photo of a pair of dogs jumping in unison.

"The photo is of the 4-year-old border collie Night Cap and the 18-month-Shetland sheepdog Daiquiri practicing for team agility (if it was a competition class) in Yardley," said Rose. "They're my sister Janet's dogs, and she got them each when they were about 8 weeks old."

"Janet's been competing in agility competitions for a long time," said Rose. "The border collie has his first degree and is working on his next degree. The sheepdog has just starting competing. The border collie also does herding competitions."

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Candid photos third place winner is Bill Vendetta

Details: January 3, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Bill Vendetta of Cochranville, Pa., placed third in Candid photos with this picture of his nephew Logan feeding a horse a carrot.

"My nephew Logan is 4," said Vendettta. "He was visiting with his father. He'd never met any horses before, so he was a little apprehensive, but we assured him it was okay, and that the horse would just take the carrot and not his fingers."

"The horse is Bullet, one of my Pair Pleasure Driving pair," said Vendetta. "He is paired with Bandid in competition."

Candid Boy carrot horse Venditta

Candid Photo First Place winner is Walt Szybowski

Details: January 1, 2026; By SARA CAVANAGH

Walt Szybowski of Hawley, Pa. won the Candid Photo with this great photo of a deer eating a snack from the lips of his wife Heidi.

"We have a farm in the Poconos," said Szybowski. "We have all rescues, horses, cows, pigs and dogs. We love our rescues."

"This is a sweet deer," he said. "He's been around Heidi for about three years. We have deer all around, but we named him Special. He'd follow Heidi when she was mucking out stalls. When we were sitting on the porch, he's come up, We'd able to pet him."

"I was sitting right next to my wife when Special came up, and I took this picture," said Szybowski.

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Details: December 29, 2025; By Staff Writers

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