Today’s post starts with a couple of handy hints to the Canadian Eventing High Performance folks. To the riders: if you want to get on a team, you have to fill out this silly little document called a declaration form, and probably (but I’m not sure since the Canadian Eventing website never bothered posting its […]

Well, the WEG team announcements are flowing fast and furious now.  One of the most anticipated of the lot in Canada is, of course, the Dressage Team. When they set the score cut off at 70% there were more than a few people, myself included, who expected that to mean no team at all in […]

I am delighted to share with you today the insightful reflections of UK journalist extraordinaire Pippa Cuckson, who has much to say about this year’s Badminton, and the recent tragic deaths of Canadian Jordan McDonald and Benjamin Winter of Germany.   I’m even more delighted to be the first to reveal the news that Pippa […]

FEI PRESS RELEASE Vancouver (CAN)  June 19, 2014 FEI Launches New Product Line In its never-ending quest to appear to be upholding the principles of horse welfare and fair play, the FEI has today announced two exciting new products. Developed by former members of Lance Armstrong’s private support team, these products are an indispensable aid […]

I wish to express my deepest condolences to the family and many friends of Jordan McDonald. If the horse community in Canada is a small one, where there is never more than a degree or two of separation among us, the eventing community is like a nuclear family within it. Jordan’s death is not only […]

What a first day of work for Eva Havaris! Her shadow had barely darkened the doorstep before she faced her first order of business: to provide a quote for what is one of the biggest announcements in Canadian equestrian sport history.  Before her chair was even warm, EC’s new CEO had already had an awesome […]

If you are from the native English-speaking world, you don’t need to be told about D-Day, particularly not this week.  And if you happen to have tickets for the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy this August, you will have ample opportunity to continue the learning of the Normandy landings up close and personal. Caen […]

Wow. Would you look at that. I wouldn’t have thought it possible to imagine such an incredibly wide range of personalities and backgrounds for a single job  (the CEO of EC), but there it is. The EC Board found someone who has, at least on paper, almost nothing in common with her two predecessors. Far […]

I think I’m glad I was busy the weekend of Badminton this year, and missed the live carnage, I mean coverage. But one doesn’t need to have witnessed it to know that something was amiss with Giuseppe Della Chiesa’s course. Here is a comparison of the event’s results this year with last year: Statistical item […]

As promised at the bottom of my At Issue column in the May Horse Sport, today I am sharing with you today the oeuvre that Akaash Maharaj produced in response to my request for input on what advice he might offer EC’s new CEO.  I was unable to squash even a tiny fraction of what he had to […]