What a way to start day two of team dressage, with the amazing Isabell and her beautiful Bella Rose. It’s another world from yesterday to watch the likes of Isabell. Worth getting up at 5:30 am for, without a doubt. It’s only a month and a bit since Aachen, but it’s plain to see that […]
I think David Marcus needs a nickname, and I’m voting for Rainmaker. In a spooky repeat of London 2012, the skies opened up with renewed fury just as he was about to begin his test this afternoon. But if David needs a second nick name it’s got to be Nerves of Steel. The déjà vu […]
Greetings from day one of the team GP in Normandy, where the sky is crying on the ring but thankfully not in the stands, which are covered. Not that there are too many heads that need to be kept dry on the first half of the first day of team competition. The place is probably […]
Well, here we are after four years of hype and circumstance, finally watching the French put their best hosting foot forward at the 2014 WEG, aka the world’s biggest horse show. We are an hour into the opening ceremonies and all I can say is, I sure hope they have something big up their French […]
Well, really more of a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside of an enigma stuffed inside Pandora’s box placed in a safety deposit box and the key thrown overboard from a boat floating above the Mariana Trench. Honestly, I’ve been surprised more times by Princess Haya than by any single individual in twelve years of […]
I was planning to post this week with some reflections on the total exoneration of Jock Paget, but two things got in the way: Pippa Cuckson has already posted her first blog on this magazine’s website and commandingly addressed the issues on that very topic; and Princess Haya has astonished me (and probably at least […]
Hi all! I’m back from my pre-WEG chill out and am excitedly counting down the 18 or so days until departure for La France. I came back from my break all bright eyed and bushy tailed, but my post-vacay energy bubble suffered a severe blow from an FEI press release that was lying in wait […]
I know there are those of you out there who believed that the Aachen dressage this year would be more interesting than WEG, but I beg to differ. I think Aachen has been a fantastic appetite-whetter for the battles to come in just over a month. By the way, contrary to recent hype and hyperbole, […]
A friend and colleague has called me ‘hardcore’ because I got up at 4 am yesterday to watch the Dressage Nations’ Cup in Aachen. But if truth be told, I’m more insomniac than dressage obsessive. And I hope to catch as much of the GP Special of the CDIO as I can in tonight’s wee […]
Muy buenos dias! I come to you today from the loving bosom of Central America, where I have spent the last five days working with some lovely horses and their delightful riders in Guatemala and Costa Rica, making sure they have their awesomest dancing shoes on for the freestyles at this year’s Central American Games. […]
