After lots of traveling we arrived safely in Ocala Florida at Clayton’s beautiful farm. Huge thanks to my teammate Colleen for shipping Woody down. He enjoyed traveling with his buddy Quorry. Thanks to Anne Marie for looking after him along the way and my Mum for taking him to Quebec where he began his journey. […]

So finally we are allowed to say publicly that Selena and Woody have been picked to represent Canada in Rio. WHOOPEE!!! It has been a stressful build up to the announcement and I hope that all the drama that has taken place will not fracture the team in any way.  It’s a good team as […]

It’s all over bar the prize giving ceremony.  I watched the dressage and he was fabulous for about half the test then got a bit on his forehand after the right turn on the haunches and then he got a little crooked in his neck on the left rein canter and slowed right down.  Selena […]

This was from Anne Marie early this morning Great meadows starts today with the jog at 3pm this afternoon. I’ve been to great meadows once before in its inaugural year when it was our last run before WEG 2014. It was already a beautiful venue then but the changes they have made since are something […]

I love Summer.  I love it when it’s hot and sunny every day and your hat gets soggy after your first horse LOL.  Selena does not have this problem, she got a fabulous new hat from Charles Owen that has removable ‘inside’ which can go in the washing machine!  The hat comes with two linings […]

Everything seems to have gone into overdrive.  The activity level at the farm is in it’s usual runaway train mode.  People say to me, why don’t I take a few days off ….they have NO idea.  I am not complaining mind you, if I had to choose between this and a ‘quiet life’, there is […]

So theoretically the Olympic Eventing team was meant to be announced yesterday…but it wasn’t.  It’s stressful.  You try not to think about it or let it make any difference to the day but it’s the elephant in the corner. Friday was a rough day.  At 6.30am I thought I heard one of the paddock gates. […]

Tuesday we arrived at Bromont and the weather was lovely. Tori, Anne Marie & I unloaded into the main barn and then took the horses for a quick walk and some grass before heading to the vets for “in barns”. After that I took Zephyr on a hack around the track where you can see […]

And now it’s the day before everyone leaves for Bromont, and I do mean everyone.  There is a mass exodus this year and people are going to be fairly scarce at Balsam Hall this week.  As a result, it’s time for Benny and Rummy to have a break, not that I feel they need a […]

Bromont is sneaking up on us and we only have one gallop left before shipping, we are going to do it Saturday. Normally we would be galloping Friday and Tuesday but as we are shipping on the Tuesday, that is enough stress and the two one star horses will miss that gallop, Woody will go […]