With the Pan Am Games looming a mere two weeks away, I am starting to (maybe) get excited (just a little) about my exotic adventure to Toronto. I usually prefer my Pan Ams in spicier locales, such as Rio and Guadalajara; but until I am reincarnated as a wined, dined and (dare I say) financially incentivized member […]
Did you catch the great sport at Spruce Meadows last Saturday? Two thumbs up to CBC for providing the live coverage that gave me a sneak peak at our Pan Am Show Jumping team. Not that I have any insider information on the Pan Am teams, which are being announced en masse this coming Saturday […]
When I opened the June issue of Horse Sport the other day, the very first item that caught my eye was the news that Breyer will be creating a Valegro model to be released early next year. I was immediately excited at the prospect of a Breyer Valegro. You see, Breyer and I go back a long, long […]
Here’s the biggest news of the past month that I’ll bet you never heard: Canada is out of the Furusiyya Nations Cup final in Barcelona, thanks to the sudden, eleventh hour cancellation of the qualifier at Spruce Meadows that was to have taken place in June. Why didn’t you hear it, you wonder? Because no […]
Mr. Holler, allow me to use your own language to express my feelings: you are widerwärtig. You were invited to be a member of the ground jury at the 2015 World Cup Finals in Las Vegas, and in return for a nice all-expenses-paid trip to Sin City – where I don’t doubt you were treated like […]
Over the past couple of years, I have hammered on pretty annoyingly (to some) about the highly dubious objectivity of the FEI’s repeated use of Lord John Stevens and his company Quest in its investigations into various and sundry scandalous situations which have primarily involved Endurance. Well guess what. Turns out I had a point. […]
Just a quick post – the internet is not holding up to the enormous media traffic of tweeters, Facebook posters and bloggers like me, so I’ll just say I’m so glad I was able to get to these last two days of competition and witness the great sport between the little white fences and over […]
There are jumps in there somewhere Yesterday I had a brief chat with a German journalist who betrayed just a hint of derision at the style of delivery here in Vegas. ‘This is Vegas’, I said to him. ‘Yes, it IS Vegas,’ he replied with a faint sneer. My advice to him, should he ever […]
I’ve just discovered the cure for a belly ache. Watch Valegro. Some of you know me as a somewhat cynical, even jaded observer of equestrian sport. It continues to surprise even me that every time I see Valegro perform all the hair on my arms stands on end and I get a lump in my throat. He […]
Not having watched the GP, I’m seeing everyone for the first time today. And I have to say it’s some very impressive quality out there. All kinds of new talent too. Agnete from Denmark lit the place up early on with her delightful horse Jojo Az, but really the calibre of horse flesh and riding across the […]
