In Stride

In Stride with Sinead Halpin Maynard offers intimate talks with equestrians at the top of their sport. Brought to you by Ride iQ (Ride-iQ.com).✨Download the Ride iQ app to access more exclusive podcasts and 100s of listen-while-you-ride audio lessons. Start your free trial: Ride-iQ.com

In Stride is a sports podcast hosted by Ride iQ, with 248 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Alizée Froment: From Grand Prix Dressage to Liberty, Teaching Horses to Manage Their Own Emotions

  Aug 14, 20261h 22m

  This Week on In Stride Sinead Halpin-Maynard sits down with Alizée Froment to talk about her path from Grand Prix dressage to liberty training, and how she teaches horses to recognize tension in their bodies and find their own way out of it. Meet the Guest: Alizée Froment Alizée Froment is a French liberty trainer, performer, and author who competed internationally in dressage up to Grand Prix level and trained the French National Pony Dressage Team. In 2011 she made her international Grand Prix debut aboard her stallion Mistral du Coussoul, competing at that level for years before retiring him from competition in 2018. Since 2009, Froment has performed neck rope liberty demonstrations for hundreds of thousands of spectators around the world. She now works with sport horses sent to her for emotional and behavioral struggles, runs her own liberty and education programs, and has developed courses with fellow trainer Tristan Tucker on his TRT platform. She is the author of The Horses Who Made Me, released in 2024. In This Episode, Sinead and Alizée Discuss: How she reads the physical tension behind a horse's fear, anger, or frustration, and teaches them to release it themselves instead of shutting the emotion down Her horses' daily bodywork routine, including stretching, massage, and natural therapies like clay and essential oils, and how it feeds directly into her training decisions each day The moment she stopped chasing performance in competition and started training for the horse in front of her Why she believes horse welfare debates need more listening and less judgment Episode Sponsor Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide Created by equine veterinarian Dr. Erica Lacher, the Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide app helps horse owners recognize the signs of a true emergency, know when to call the vet, and understand what to do while help is on the way. Download from the App Store or Google Play at EquineEmergencyApp.com In Stride Is Brought to You by Ride iQ Ride iQ helps everyday riders ride with more clarity, confidence, and purpose through on-demand audio lessons from world-class coaches. Members also get: Weekly live Q&As with equestrian experts Exclusive podcast episodes Dressage test prep resources A supportive learning community Start your free 14-day trial at Ride-iQ.com

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  Linsay Rosser Sumpter: Championing Equality and Opportunity for Women in Rodeo

  Aug 7, 20261h 16m

  This Week on In Stride Sinead Halpin-Maynard sits down with Linsay Rosser Sumpter to trace the history of women in rodeo, the fight for equal opportunity and pay, and how a rodeo family legacy turned into a role leading the sport's biggest platform for cowgirls. Meet the Guest: Linsay Rosser Sumpter Linsay Rosser Sumpter is the Commissioner of Premier Women's Rodeo (PWR), the rebrand of the Women's Rodeo World Championship she has led since its founding in 2020. She grew up in a multi-generational rodeo family that produced rodeos for nearly 80 years, competed collegiately as a breakaway roper on scholarship, and spent more than 15 seasons as a college rodeo coach in Colorado. Under her leadership, PWR has paid out over $5 million to female rodeo athletes and secured a new media partnership with Scripps Sports to broadcast the sport nationally. In 2024, she received the Western Sports Foundation's Grit Award for her advocacy on behalf of women in rodeo. In This Episode, Sinead and Linsay Discuss: The history of women in rodeo, from early trick riders to the tragedy that pushed them out of the arena for decades How Premier Women's Rodeo grew out of a push for equal pay and equal opportunity across every rodeo discipline What it took to step out of competition and into the commissioner's chair to build a platform for the next generation The family legacy of stock contracting and rodeo producing that shaped her from childhood Episode Sponsor Connaway & Associates The friendly and knowledgeable team at Connaway & Associates brings together more than 30 years of experience to offer a wide range of insurance services, including horse insurance, farm insurance, and liability insurance. Visit www.connaway.net or call 501-868-8084 to explore your options. Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide Created by equine veterinarian Dr. Erica Lacher, the Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide app helps horse owners recognize the signs of a true emergency, know when to call the vet, and understand what to do while help is on the way. Download from the App Store or Google Play at EquineEmergencyApp.com In Stride Is Brought to You by Ride iQ Ride iQ helps everyday riders ride with more clarity, confidence, and purpose through on-demand audio lessons from world-class coaches. Members also get: Weekly live Q&As with equestrian experts Exclusive podcast episodes Dressage test prep resources A supportive learning community Start your free 14-day trial at Ride-iQ.com

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  Laura Bruner: Making the Barn the Classroom, Not the Reward

  Jul 31, 20261h 23m

  This Week on In Stride Sinead Halpin-Maynard sits down with Laura Bruner to talk about the education gap she saw across 25 plus years in the horse world and the college preparatory academy she built to close it. Meet the Guest: Laura Bruner Laura Bruner is the founder and executive director of Equis Amare College Preparatory Academy (EACPA), a nonprofit college prep high school for equestrian students opening in Penn Valley, California this fall. She spent 20 years on the Hunter/Jumper A circuit, training under Olympians Peter Breakwell and Miguel Leal, and has started more than 350 horses over her 25 plus year career. Laura built EACPA to close the education gap she saw across the industry, pairing core academics with hands-on horsemanship and industry credentialing. Equis Amare College Preparatory Academy "Every horse, every student has a story... The question is: what part of that story do you want to be?” If you want to learn more about EACPA, check it out here. In This Episode, Sinead and Laura Discuss: Why Laura built a bridge between the "real world" of school and the "real world" of the barn instead of asking students to choose one How EACPA's no phone policy protects the soul to soul connection between horse and rider Turning the horse industry's biggest staffing problem, professionals doing 17 jobs with no time to train the next generation, into a pipeline of educated working students Why the "bombproof horse" doesn't exist, and how a fundamental level of education protects parents and clients from costly mistakes Episode Sponsors Connaway & Associates The friendly and knowledgeable team at Connaway & Associates brings together more than 30 years of experience to offer a wide range of insurance services, including horse insurance, farm insurance, and liability insurance. Visit www.connaway.net or call 501-868-8084 to explore your options. Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide Created by equine veterinarian Dr. Erica Lacher, the Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide app helps horse owners recognize the signs of a true emergency, know when to call the vet, and understand what to do while help is on the way. Download from the App Store or Google Play at EquineEmergencyApp.com In Stride Is Brought to You by Ride iQ Ride iQ helps everyday riders ride with more clarity, confidence, and purpose through on-demand audio lessons from world-class coaches. Members also get: Weekly live Q&As with equestrian experts Exclusive podcast episodes Dressage test prep resources A supportive learning community Start your free 14-day trial at Ride-iQ.com

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  Booli Selmayr: Treating Yourself Like an Athlete, On and Off the Horse

  Jul 17, 20261h 27m

  This Week on In Stride Sinead Halpin-Maynard sits down with professional event rider Booli Selmayr to talk about the grief that first sent her out for a run, the injury that nearly ended everything, and why she believes "treating yourself like an athlete" is the missing piece for riders at every level. Meet the Guest: Booli Selmayr Booli Selmayr is a professional event rider and trainer based at Fox Race Farm in Millbrook, New York, where she runs Fox Valley Sport Horses, now celebrating its 10-year anniversary. She came up through Pony Club and fox hunting before completing her first CCI5* at 34, aboard her longtime partner Millfield Lancando at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. She has since built a reputation for pairing serious horsemanship with serious athletic training as a runner, CrossFit athlete, and creator of the "Ride the Pace" cross-country clinic. In This Episode, Sinead and Booli Discuss: Why losing her best friend to cancer, and later another close friend, first sent her out for a run, and how that grew into a full lifestyle Why treating yourself like an athlete, whether that means tracking your food or fueling properly for competition, matters just as much as time in the tack Her "against, on, and with the horse" framework for rider balance, and why real strength, not just being light, makes horses safer and more secure Building Fox Valley Sport Horses from a mostly fox-hunting string into a full eventing program over 10 years, and the confidence it took to bet on herself Episode Sponsor Connaway & Associates The friendly and knowledgeable team at Connaway & Associates brings together more than 30 years of experience to offer a wide range of insurance services, including horse insurance, farm insurance, and liability insurance. Visit www.connaway.net or call 501-868-8084 to explore your options. Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide Created by equine veterinarian Dr. Erica Lacher, the Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide app helps horse owners recognize the signs of a true emergency, know when to call the vet, and understand what to do while help is on the way. Download from the App Store or Google Play at EquineEmergencyApp.com In Stride Is Brought to You by Ride iQ Ride iQ helps everyday riders ride with more clarity, confidence, and purpose through on-demand audio lessons from world-class coaches. Members also get: Weekly live Q&As with equestrian experts Exclusive podcast episodes Dressage test prep resources A supportive learning community Start your free 14-day trial at Ride-iQ.com

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  Alec Lochore: Reinvention, Responsibility, and Designing the LA 2028 Cross-Country Course

  Jul 10, 20261h 19m

  This Week on In Stride Sinead Halpin-Maynard talks with Alec Lochore, who is serving as the official cross-country course designer for eventing at the LA 2028 Olympics for the first time in his career, about what the Games mean to the sport and how he ended up designing its biggest stage. Meet the Guest: Alec Lochore Alec Lochore is a veteran eventing official who has worked the Olympics in Beijing, London, Rio, and Tokyo in various technical and management roles. Raised in a horse family in Scotland, he competed through five-star level before shifting into event organizing, co-founding Musketeer with his brother Hugh, a business that has since run more than 150 events, including Blair Castle and now Scone Palace. In This Episode, Sinead and Alec Discuss: What makes the Olympics a singular stage for a niche sport, and how Alec ended up as LA28's cross-country course designer His design philosophy, including building in options at varying difficulty and honoring what an MER (Minimum Eligibility Requirement) is actually meant to certify Behind-the-scenes details on building the Santa Anita cross-country track, from turf challenges to licensing restrictions on course "theming" The shared responsibility between course designers, riders, and officials for horse welfare, and his advice for lower-level riders on reading what a course is asking Episode Sponsor Connaway & Associates The friendly and knowledgeable team at Connaway & Associates brings together more than 30 years of experience to offer a wide range of insurance services, including horse insurance, farm insurance, and liability insurance. Visit www.connaway.net or call 501-868-8084 to explore your options. Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide Created by equine veterinarian Dr. Erica Lacher, the Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide app helps horse owners recognize the signs of a true emergency, know when to call the vet, and understand what to do while help is on the way. Download from the App Store or Google Play at EquineEmergencyApp.com In Stride Is Brought to You by Ride iQ Ride iQ helps everyday riders ride with more clarity, confidence, and purpose through on-demand audio lessons from world-class coaches. Members also get: Weekly live Q&As with equestrian experts Exclusive podcast episodes Dressage test prep resources A supportive learning community Start your free 14-day trial at Ride-iQ.com

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