This is going to be my last communication with you before the New Year; we have been lucky enough to renew our relationship with Horse-Canada.com and, as such, either I or Sabine will be continuing with the blog (we may alternate a little more going forward) in 2016! I cannot believe that we have actually […]

Virtually no controversies have happened in 30 years at the London International Horse Show. But this year there was two on the last day. Blood was spotted.

Jochen is busy travelling all over the world again – he just got back from another course for the Berufsreiterverband (Association of Professional Trainers) in Germany at the end of November, then lectured at the Ingrid Klimke clinic in Caledon, and now is off in Florida visiting clients again until Dec. 23rd. So it fell […]

I am not a fan of everything the FEI does, but sympathise with them over the Global Champions League (GCL). The FEI and Global Champions Tour (GCT) have uneasily coexisted since 2006, especially after GCT forgot it wasn’t meant to clash with super-league Nations Cups. That’s when GCT had about eight shows per summer. Now […]

I was going to write this week in response to a Q&A I read in a magazine recently “Can a Wide Backed Horse Hurt my Hips?” but I will leave that topic for a future blog, since I had to share with you the story my newest Client Success Manager Sarah Ellis (see pic!) from […]

It’s no secret that redheads have sensitive skin. But the interesting thing is that chestnuts also have the most sensitive skin in the horse world. As everyone knows, the skin is the largest organ of the body. (Somehow this never seemed to make sense intuitively, because to me an organ is an organ, and skin […]

I hadn’t really intended to continue in the vein of animal rights activism that I alluded to so very briefly in my last blog, but I came across the article below online and decided that it was worth translating and sharing with you all. It had only been published in German and French, but I […]

It is Thanksgiving week here in the USA and I still haven’t really gotten used to how close together the American’s put their two turkey dinner nights, so I have adapted by changing my Christmas meal to roast beef instead. Anyhoo, the first thing I am thankful for is that my back is feeling better. […]

It may be just my vintage, but I am cringing at the thought of eventing being re-named. We are all worried about its long-term prospects within the Olympics, but I simply don’t get how a new moniker will make any difference to the sport’s popularity with either the IOC or the wider public. I am […]

I was actually going to write about another very sad case study of a horse, but I thought it would be timely to put some thoughts down about our iconic Canadian horse/trade/agricultural show instead. (So case study will be moved to next week’s entry). For those of you who have never worked the Royal – […]