Between FEI TV committing an epic fail with the European Champs coverage and my busy week writing legitimate articles, I have yet to see most of the GPS and freestyles from last weekend. What I HAVE managed to do, though, is notice how all-over-the-map the judges were, particularly in the freestyles. Here are a few […]
(NB: Today’s post will consist entirely of cliches) Raise the flag for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, who won team gold over previous Dressage Captains of the Universe Germany and Holland! Lower the boom on FEI TV, which crashed and burned this morning, leaving thousands (surely thousands, no?) of salivating dressage […]
While the Horse-Canada.com website (and this blog) were getting a face lift, the PR machine at Equine Canada squeaked out a little bomb of a press release which announced that EC has mended its fences with the hell no provinces and soon all the sheep will be safely back in the fold. Say what? After […]
Hi everyone. I know some of you are sad about the lack of a post in the last few days, but I promise to have something up shortly! Summer hours, you know…
A month flies by, filled with road trips and of course the usual ups and downs of competition. Our next outing after Bromont with the two Intermediate horses, Solo and Woody was the Stuart Horse Trials CIC** near Rochester New York. Selena was pumped and ready to rock. Solo was back in his old saddle and his back […]
Just when I thought I was about to finally drag myself away from the topic of TB racing/Chuckers, a couple of days ago I was forwarded a scan of the cover of the latest Equine Canada Magazine by someone who concluded it was a ‘must see’ for me, especially considering my recent posts. Guess what […]
Pop Art and Vitall have become “fellow Canadian” friends. Ashley is over here training for the Hickstead CDI in England and training for the remainder of the summer. I must say, it’s been nice having fellow team mates here. Aachen was Incredible! Sadly my camera died, but I think everyone knows what Aachen looks like… Huge Arena. […]
We made our annual pilgrimage to Vancouver’s Hastings Park for the wiener dog races on Sunday, and perhaps that is part of the reason this whole Chuckwagons and Thoroughbred racing situation just won’t leave my head. A commenter to my anti-Chuckwagon rant of last week posted a link to Diane Francis’ article in Saturday’s Financial […]
If you have no idea what Chuckwagon racing is, count yourself lucky and skip today’s post. Ignorance really is bliss in this case. I consider Chuckwagon racing to be nothing more than sanctioned horse abuse. And the wheel horse that shattered a hind leg on the first night of this year’s Calgary Stampede would probably […]
Vitall has been going super since the show. He continues to get stronger and stronger. We are still working on tweaking everything, being able to adjust the speed and frame within the movements. In the piaffe, we are working on being able to make quicker smaller steps. His trot is completely changing. It is an […]
