http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qx79V-JO5g This is Selena’s dressage on Song of Songs, her one star horse from Will O Wind last weekend. All in all, the weekend was a great success. Song of Songs was third in her first one star. She had one rail in stadium and not another jump or time penalty. As she is only […]
I made a trip home last week to surprise my dad for his birthday! We haven’t been together as a family for his birthday in the last three years so it was fantastic to be able to surprise him. I also visited with some friends and ran around town doing errands so the week flew […]
There is quite a lot going on considering it’s the dog days of summer (what does that mean, anyway?). Of course that little horse show in Kentucky this fall jut might have something to do with it, but here are a few things you might not have known or noticed: Shannon Dueck is training with […]
It’s that time of year again when Hastings Park Racetrack in Vancouver invites the city’s Dachshunds and their owners to be the between-race entertainment. We all know the horse racing industry is struggling to compete against other forms of gambling that don’t require a person to get dressed and leave the house, and nowhere is […]
Solo qualified on his third Intermediate horse trial. Not bad I suppose, but I am still a big niggled that he stopped at Grandview because he just HAD to spook. Grrrr. He ran at Headwaters and came sixth in the OI there. This coming weekend he runs at his first CIC** at Will O Wind. […]
Details, details… i find they are the key difference with the European judges, they pick on all the little things compared to riding in North America. They pick on wether the transition was at the right letter, balanced, rhythm etc. I think that is why Europe dominates in the sport. The riders here don’t just think about getting around the […]
It isn’t really the case with show jumping, but the dressage at Aachen is like a preview of what kind of battle field we can expect two months from now in bluegrass country. The team results won’t be final until after the Special, but I did a little math to see what the results would […]
I was working on an article about Victoria Winter’s impressive WEG-qualifying results at Blainville; since I didn’t make the trek to la belle province this year I went online to watch videos of Victoria and her American rivals who came (finally) across the world’s longest unguarded border in their own hunt for WEG qualifying scores. […]
All I can say is I feel like I am living in a desert. For the last week and a half we have had record breaking heat between 25-36 degrees. We are all melting. Add to that the horse flies that are out in full force and attacking us. We have been soaking the horses in fly spray. […]
In addition to being a muckraker, I am also intrepid, according to a slightly less intrepid blogger on The Carrot (only less so because we don’t know who you are, not because you shy away from controversy, oh no!). My Oxford dictionary reveals that intrepid means fearless or very brave. I’ll take it! I believe […]
