Today’s rant, which should be read while listening to the strains of Elvis (see video below), comes to you from the very bottom of the barrel. Even though it’s a coincidence and I only realized the appropriateness of my title and choice of music accompaniment as I started to write this very sentence, it is […]

I am now a quarter of a year into my two-time blogging, here on Straight-Up and on Horse Sport International’s site with Low-Down. It may seem at times that my blogs flow like so much verbal diarrhea, but in reality the image is more one of the constipated mathematician who works it out with a pencil, […]

The place of my birth, mentioned in my post of a few hours ago, is already receiving some attention. To pre-empt anyone out there who might be tempted to harbor doubts as to the verity of my claim that a) I was born at all (and therefore am not a puppet) and b) I was […]

puppet: /ˈpʌpɪt/noun: a movable model of a person or animal that is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it ~ Oxford English Dictionary It has come to my attention, both directly and through the Chinese Whisper Game style of communication, that people in some quarters think I am a puppet. […]

It’s not every day Canada gets to claim credit for a winner of one of the world’s great horse races, but the Maple Leaf is stamped all over I’ll Have Another’s victory in Kentucky last week. I didn’t get to watch the race live because I was busy making a living at my ‘other’ career […]

Or maybe that should read ‘whoa bellie’, as in Bellissimo.  A plague of locusts does seem to be descending upon Signor B. I can’t make a first hand report on the visuals at the new dressage facility, aka Equestrian Village (without the village, since that has not been approved just yet), but I have heard […]

I know it’s probable that if you come to this blog you also check my Can-Con blog Straight-Up on a regular basis, but in case you don’t and are disappointed that I haven’t yet posted an update on the yellow-tape situation at the GDF in Welly World, there is a new post on Straight-Up that […]

I’ve always hated Wednesday, even though it has the cutest nickname of all the days of the week. I know ‘hump day’ is meant to say, ‘Hey! We’re half way there!’ But to me it has always meant ‘we’re only half way there.’ My aversion to Wednesday hasn’t made  sense for years because I work […]

There were a lot of international horsey things going on this past weekend, none of which occupied my waking hours. The first thing I didn’t do was watch Rolex on live streaming. I think  seeing Mandiba fall off the bank and break his ribs at Badminton last year might have put me off watching online […]

Look out DQ Canada! There’s a new sheriff in town and she means business! Yes, as communicated in a giddy-with-excitement press release two weeks ago, Sarah Bradley has been imported from the world of Eventing to sit in the Chair of DCB through the remainder of 2012.  The release takes its jubilation so far that it […]