Well Solo is in Canada and Selena and I are in the USA so his life is fairly quiet right now.  I am helping Selena drive Colombo down to training camp at David O’Connor’s farm in Ocala, Florida.  En route, we had a two day stop with Bruce Davidson at Chesterland Farm in Pennsylvania and yesterday […]

I have a really good excuse for being so late with the blog this time.  Selena and Colombo have been named to the Olympic Team and it has been very hard to concentrate on much else on the weeks preceding the announcement.  Now that it has finally happened, it’s all go, go, go.  Selena will […]

This weekend Solo is at Checkmate in the Training division.  He is looking good and feeling well.  The only part of his body that I am still not completely happy with is the base of his neck.  He still has it a bit lumpy and overdeveloped although the muscle above is forming nicely.  Hopefully the […]

Oh dear, this time the blog is so far behind that people think we have finished Solo’s training….fat chance!   I have been on the road since giving a clinic in Michigan on the first weekend of April.  Since then I have been shipping horses all over North America it seems.  Solo and his two buddies […]

No excitement in Solo’s life until he does Plantation Field in Pennsylvania on the way home.  He is entered to go Open Training again. This is a very different course to the one he just did. Rocking Horse is very flat and Plantation Field is all about hills. It will require more obedience and adjustability to go clear […]

Finally Solo pulled his elegant finger out and got on with all three phases on the same day! This past weekend was his Training debut, at Rocking Horse Spring Horse Trials in Florida.  He was entered in the Open Training division and his owners, Sean and Geraldine Dennis had driven all the way from Toronto […]

Well February roared past without taking a break.  I had a wonderful visit in Florida and saw Solo do his 2008 debut at the Novice level at the Ocala horse park.  He did a less than spectacular dressage, but way better than the first outing of 2007.  He didn’t visibly argue in the ring but […]

Solo’s first show of 2008 will be ‘Ocala Winter ll’ at the Florida Horse Park on the middle weekend of February. He is six years old this year and we have greater expectations for this season. So far he has been to Bruce Davidson’s “Chesterland South” to school; he hopped cheerfully over everything. Yesterday he went to Rocking Horse Winter ll, not […]

Solo is having a fine time in the sun and sand.  Last year Solo was ill for a day or so after each long journey.  This year we were fortunate enough to have gained some expert advice from Dr. Gayle Becker of Guelph University.  She advised us to change our electrolytes, the ones we were […]

Solo has been busy but I have been without a computer – I am typing this on a borrowed machine.  When did my life get so computer dependent?  I feel as though I am missing a limb.  ‘They’…..said one to two weeks and  then ‘they’ would give me an estimate….waaagghhh. Since I last reported, Solo […]