Way, way, WAY back when I was an undergrad, I flirted for two years with majoring in philosophy. I enjoyed many philosophy club meetings with like-minded argumentative nerds (remember those heady, fun-filled evenings, Margaret Boyce?) where, our tongues and imaginations loosened by cheap wine from a jug, we debated life’s answerable and (more often) unanswerable […]
Did anyone catch the 16 minutes of infamy the Canadian horse slaughter industry garnered from Global TV’s show 16×9 last weekend? It was so awesome, and I mean that in the worst possible sense. As most of us were getting ready to greet the chocolatey and biologically impossible leavings of the Easter Bunny on Sunday […]
In the increasingly bizarre world of FEI press releases, this week we were told about a ground-breaking (pun intended, of course) footing study. Never one to shy away from self-aggrandizing, the FEI yodels across the top of its announcement that the ‘world’s most extensive equine surfaces study’ has been published. I recently mentioned the word ‘timing’ […]
The Swiss Federation asked me to share their official statement of today regarding Endurance-Gate with my readers, and I have obliged by posting it over on my other blog Low-Down. Click here to go to the Swiss statement
This morning in an email conversation with a colleague I referred to something the FEI was potentially going to do as crazy. I stopped just short of using one of my favourite vulgarisms to add colour to that adjective – chiroptera feces – and then my colleague replied to me with that exact phrase. Our […]
In an unprecedented act of innovation, Equine Canada has announced this morning a proposal to suspend the hunt for a new CEO. Instead, the considerable resources of hiring, training, retaining and firing a Chief Executive will be redirected to the creation of a brand new department, called the Crisis Department. This new addition to EC’s […]
Last week I interviewed Canadian Show Jumping Team chef Mark Laskin (look for the interview in the May issue of Horse Sport). He’s the one who filled the very large shoes Torchy Millar left behind after London. Mark talked about the very gently-sloped, two-year-long hand-over of the reins from Torchy to him. He commended Jump […]
I hope everyone caught the results and photos that were posted on the Horse-Canada News page during the CHI Al Shaqab during the show last week. In the final Grand Prix, worth 650,000 euros, the top three placings were held by Ludger Beerbaum of Germany with Chiara 222, and Belgian riders Gregory Wathelet with Sea […]
This post has nothing at all to do with horses, but Qatar is such an overwhelming place and there is certainly a lot of other cool stuff to talk about. I promise there will be horses next time. Tuesday morning we were taken to a falcon farm about an hour from Doha (hunting with falcons […]
Horse Sport editor Susan Stafford-Pooley is boarding a flight to Qatar as I post the first of several installments that Susan has kindly agreed to share as she has a Very Big Adventure in Doha this coming week. Enjoy! I was recently gazing at the vast winter wasteland outside my window, the long, cold winter stretching […]
