I think I’m glad I was busy the weekend of Badminton this year, and missed the live carnage, I mean coverage. But one doesn’t need to have witnessed it to know that something was amiss with Giuseppe Della Chiesa’s course. Here is a comparison of the event’s results this year with last year: Statistical item […]
Well clearly there are no flies on some of you out there, especially the two who posted the correct response to my geography quiz. Yes, the red clay and construction featured on Monday’s post are indeed snaps of the rapidly metamorphosing landscape of Tryon Equestrian Properties, aka Sr. B’s new dog and pony show (emphasis […]
Here’s a little challenge for those of you who, like I, wish there were an equestrian edition of Jeopardy. Your challenge today is to identify the location of the photographs below. The photos were snapped a month ago, and I’ve been told that there are now a cluster of rings and three barns, but that […]
As promised at the bottom of my At Issue column in the May Horse Sport, today I am sharing with you today the oeuvre that Akaash Maharaj produced in response to my request for input on what advice he might offer EC’s new CEO. I was unable to squash even a tiny fraction of what he had to […]
Way, way, WAY back when I was an undergrad, I flirted for two years with majoring in philosophy. I enjoyed many philosophy club meetings with like-minded argumentative nerds (remember those heady, fun-filled evenings, Margaret Boyce?) where, our tongues and imaginations loosened by cheap wine from a jug, we debated life’s answerable and (more often) unanswerable […]
Pippa Cuckson shares her thoughts on the decisions made at the FEI’s Sports Forum and Extraordinary General Assembly. We are just a few days short of the first anniversary of the Daily Telegraph article by yours-truly that revealed the enormity of doping in endurance yards owned by the in-laws of Princess Haya, president of the […]
You might not believe me, but there are rare occasions when I wish I weren’t right. The appearance of a press release titled ‘Princess Haya signals intention to stand for re-election as FEI President’ in my inbox this morning resulted in one of those unwanted moments. If you have been only dropping in on a […]
Did anyone catch the 16 minutes of infamy the Canadian horse slaughter industry garnered from Global TV’s show 16×9 last weekend? It was so awesome, and I mean that in the worst possible sense. As most of us were getting ready to greet the chocolatey and biologically impossible leavings of the Easter Bunny on Sunday […]
In the increasingly bizarre world of FEI press releases, this week we were told about a ground-breaking (pun intended, of course) footing study. Never one to shy away from self-aggrandizing, the FEI yodels across the top of its announcement that the ‘world’s most extensive equine surfaces study’ has been published. I recently mentioned the word ‘timing’ […]
It’s not every day the FEI grabs a jar of jam and spreads it all over its own face, but today is a special day. Below is another guest post from Pippa Cuckson, on the announcement today that the FEI has had a light-bulb moment when it comes to conflict of interest. The announcement, which […]
