For Reno resident Charlotte Jorst, cloning isn’t about the gamble of chasing championships. It’s about safety, familiarity, and the chance to ride a once-in-a-lifetime feeling all over again.
Charlotte Jorst has already proven herself a force of nature, demonstrating how a woman in her third, fourth or fifth decade can start riding, competing and become one of the leading adult amateurs of her day and discipline.
She went from lessons in her thirties — okay, a year-and-a-half of no stirrups with Guenter Seidel is a heckuva foundation — to igniting Grand Prix dressage arenas in her fifties and beyond. Along the way came the 2021 CDI3* Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle wins during Week 12 of the Global Dressage Festival, 2019 FEI Dressage Nations Cup team gold, the 2018 USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Championship, and 2015 CDIO5* Rotterdam team bronze in her first Nations Cup appearance. This, however, is not your average horse tale about mid-life mastery of timeless riding traditions. It’s more like mastering time itself. Because Charlotte has become one of the best-known, unabashed advocates for the ultimate in building consistency in your horse: cloning.
From busy showgrounds to shared trailheads, equine herpesvirus remains a persistent risk—here’s how to recognize it, contain it, and protect your horse when exposure happens.
EHV is not a rare or emerging disease. In fact, most horses are exposed to equine herpesvirus at some point in their lives. The two primary strains, EHV-1 and EHV-4, circulate widely in the horse population. EHV-4 is typically associated with respiratory illness, while EHV-1 carries more serious implications, including abortion in mares and equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM), the neurologic form that can lead to paralysis or death.
What makes EHV particularly concerning during show and travel season is not just its severity—but its subtlety.
From Saratoga’s racing economy to Fairfield County’s hunter rings, New York and Connecticut’s horse country is built on old land, high standards, working farms and a deeply practical devotion to horses.
In 2007, Claremont Riding Academy on West 89th Street closed its doors. It was the last stable in Manhattan — a century-old institution where generations of New Yorkers learned to post trot on horses that somehow lived on the Upper West Side. When it went, horse culture did not disappear. It moved outward. The barns left first. The riders followed — to Westchester, Fairfield County, Dutchess County, the Hudson Valley, Saratoga, Lake Placid and the Hamptons — creating a legible geography around New York City. Each zone represents a different answer to the same question: how far will you go to keep horses in a life built around Manhattan?
New York and Connecticut share a Northeast horse culture: old land, high standards, serious sport, working farms, hunt clubs, preserved open space and practical devotion to horses. New York is broad and muscular, with racing, Saratoga, Belmont, HITS, Old Salem, Lake Placid, the Hamptons, eventing and foxhunting. Connecticut is smaller, denser and more exacting: Fairfield County hunter rings, polished junior programs, old clubs, backcountry polo and a barn culture shaped by wealth, limited land and proximity to the city.
Polish with Purpose - How modern turnout is rewriting the dress code for comfort, safety and performance
Walk the aisles at a rated show, stand at the in-gate on a humid afternoon, or scroll through a tack-room thread late at night, and a clear pattern emerges. Equestrian turnout has not abandoned convention; it has quietly rewritten it. What was once built around appearance is now built around performance, with the expectation that it still reads as polished and correct from across the ring.
Riders still care deeply about presentation. The hunter ring rewards restraint. Dressage asks for elegance. Eventers treat cross-country kit as a working safety system. But the modern rider is no longer willing to be overheated, restricted, or under-protected simply to look correct. Instead, turnout has become a balancing act: technical innovation that disappears into a traditional silhouette.
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