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 […]

So WEG is going to Bromont. I can’t exactly say ‘I told you so’, because I was never convinced the Bromont bid could pull it off, especially after last year’s humiliation. In case you didn’t deem it important enough to cache it away in your mental hard-drive,  Bromont was the last bidder standing but the […]

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 […]

Well clearly there are no flies on some of you out there, especially the two who posted the correct response to my geography quiz. Yes, the red clay and construction featured on Monday’s post are indeed snaps of the rapidly metamorphosing landscape of Tryon Equestrian Properties, aka Sr. B’s new dog and pony show (emphasis […]

Here’s a little challenge for those of you who, like I,  wish there were an equestrian edition of Jeopardy. Your challenge today is to identify the location of the photographs below. The photos were snapped a month ago, and I’ve been told that there are now a cluster of rings and three barns, but that […]

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 […]