I have just received an official statement from Yvonne Losos de Muñiz in which she explains the reasons for her retirement from dressage competition. I know you don’t need an introduction to who Yvonne is, and chances are you have already learned either first or second hand about her indisputable talent, integrity and generosity to […]

Remember how when we came across someone we really thought was really awesome we used to say ‘I wish I could clone him/her’? Well, provided that the him or her in question is a non-human animal, now you can. Yes, cloning is everywhere around us. If you ate the flesh of an animal at a […]

That’s the Global Dressage Forum I’m referring to, not the Global Dressage Festival. It’s a bit unfortunate that the dressage circuit in Welly World has the same initials, since it would be easy to confuse the two things, which really have nothing to do with each other. In fact the Global Dressage Forum, hereafter to […]

As this post proves, I did not burn up like a piece of space junk upon entering Vancouver’s atmosphere, though the jet lag has been epic. Even Chorizo has it – demanding breakfast at 2 am, falling deeply asleep for hours in the afternoon as if it were midnight. Today I made it to 5 […]

Well, strictly speaking, in a physical sense I am still in France and not at my desk at home where most of my thinking gets done. Goodness knows I haven’t done a whole lot of anything cerebral for the past few weeks. But now that I am in Paris and no longer in rural France […]

Chorizo is popular here, which is excellent for his self esteem. He is welcome everywhere: bars, restaurant patios, beaches, even shops. And he’s not alone. There are dogs everywhere here. The Corsicans hunt wild pigs and boar with dogs, and every village has a goodly number of hound-like creatures skulking around. There are plenty of […]

Hello, me again, the filler, yes, Karen’s still away – don’t worry, she is back soon. I’m going to talk about money. There’s been a lot of chat in the media over here in the UK about how equestrianism isn’t Really that posh. In defense of the disciplines – and in a groveling attempt to […]

As expected, the deeper I burrow into the mountains and beaches of Corsica, the more London fades in my rear view mirror. It took a surprisingly long time to settle into the mind-vacancy this holiday deserves (I’ll blame EC for getting me wound up tighter than a tangled fishing line); but I am pleased to […]

Did you vote? I did, but I must confess it was a struggle. When the first sight that greets you as you open your eyes in the morning is something like that in the image below, it’s tough to channel all that beauty into unsavoury thoughts about EC’s many and mutliplying failings. If you didn’t […]

Greetings from London town. So Karen has nipped off on hols, but foolishly left her log-in details here with me in Blighty. Ergo, I’m taking the liberty of blogging in her absence. She also accidentally left Harriet (remember – the rubber horse head). Well I say “left”, I may in fact have borrowed Hazza and […]