About Paper Horse

Paper Horse is an independent online publication produced by Paper Horse Media LLC, a company launched in 2024 by Sarah Eakin.

Sarah has a long career as a sports journalist, specializing in equestrian disciplines writing for the major equestrian publications worldwide such as Dressage Today, Horse and Hound, Country Life, the Chronicle of the Horse, the Aiken Horse, Equus as well as national newspapers including The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail covering everything from Hickstead Show Jumping to Badminton Horse Trials in the UK to World Cup Dressage in Las Vegas and the Winter Equestrian Festival in the USA.

Born in Surrey, England, she started riding when she was 3 years old and grew up in Pony Club, competing in dressage – including the Pony Club dressage championships at Hickstead – show jumping, eventing and polo, winning the ‘Fluffies’ polo tournament at Cowdray Park Polo Club on a team with her brothers and newly-appointed Hurlingham Polo Association Chairman, Will Lucas. She also hunted regularly and rode out for her mother, who trained national hunt racehorses. She continued to ride and play polo and was married to professional polo player Gary Eakin with whom she has a son, James.

Paper Horse is a pop-up online magazine designed to deliver news, features and interviews from the barns, the sidelines, the in-gate, the polo fields, the showgrounds, the dressage arena and beyond.