…is going on this blog! That’s right folks, I’m Sin City-bound for the World Cup Finals this week. For those of you who can’t be here, I’ll do my best to bring you all the observations and opinionations you won’t find in the results and ‘official’ reports. This will be my fourth WC jumping and dressage final […]
I’m heading off for a little Easter break to do some overdue deep breathing of fresh air where the only sound is that of the noisy, silly flickers who are desperate for love. The post I had planned to write this week got a hole blown in it when, in a rare fit of forthrightness, the FEI […]
Well that’s that. In a wholly predictable, anyone-could-have-called-it manner, EC’s bylaws have fallen flat on their face. Again. It couldn’t be said they were voted down by a landslide. You can’t call a few pebbles a landslide. If all 1654 votes (1046 nays, 608 yays) had come from the province of BC alone, that would […]
Well now we know why HRH decided not to run for that third term. I applaud her decision to ‘get off the pot’ so that a heavy hand could be applied to the NF of the family she married into. In case you have been profoundly out of touch this past week, the FEI has […]
Feeling a bit uninspired about a title for today’s post, I looked up what meaning March 11th might have out there in the wider world. It’s one of the less distinguished dates on the calendar, unless of course it happens to be your birthday. Now, if you’re in the mood for a little Hump Day […]
You know that saying about there being no such thing as bad publicity? I’m not at all convinced of the verity of that claim, but I can tell you one thing that I know for absolute certain: that there IS such a thing as stupid publicity. A few weeks ago, the Huffington Post ran one […]
Wake up people! It’s D-Day. Today is your last chance to register to vote on the EC Bylaws, and Thursday the 26th (yes, that’s the day after tomorrow) the last day to actually cast your vote. I voted on Friday before posting my ‘things you need to know before you vote’ blog. I voted before […]
When I received the February 10, 2015 Equine Canada announcement that my vote was being sought on new bylaws, my first thought was that I should attempt to understand what impact these bylaws would have on me individually. When I received an announcement about the bylaw vote from Horse Council BC three days later, it […]
I’m going to be spending the next couple of days working on an online article to be published later next week on Horse-Canada.com (don’t worry, I’ll be sure to put a link here on the blog as soon as it’s up so you don’t have to go hunting). The bylaws proposed by EC have caused […]
No trip to Welly World is complete until you feel like the place has run you over like an Australian road train. It’s a kind of black magic, the way the place just demands every ounce of life out of you, from the time you arrive until you fasten your seat-belt on the flight out. […]
