Remember this adorable poster from the seventies? I feel just like that kitten right about now. It doesn’t seem to matter whether I’m actually in Welly World or sitting here at home in my microscopic office-off-the-kitchen. I just can’t keep up.  And I’ve tried. Hard. To. Keep. Up. But this latest twist in the plot […]

I’m on my way home now via Texas to do some non-writing biz, and am very much looking forward to some quiet time in the real world of my own home to recover from my travels (a bit of etymology for you: ‘travel’ originates from the word ‘travail’ which of course means ‘work’ or ‘labor’). […]

This place does me in every time. I’m exhausted after just ten days in Welly World. I used to wonder why the dressage crowd down here always seemed so scatter brained, and after a few years of visiting the place at the height of the season,  I now understand the reason. It’s Welly World that’s […]

Some rather un-tropical weather can be partly blamed for the lack of turn out for last night’s CDI-W Freestyle at the Global Dressage Festival. Only the mortification of my companion kept me from wearing a big toque  to the show to catch the last few freestyles of the evening. Canada was the dominating force out […]

I’ve been soaking up the sun of Welly World for a full week now, and thought I ought to report on all the Canadian action down here. There has been a lot. The WDM Palm Beach had more Canadians than ever before, with four entries, which made up more than 25% of the total this […]

I think I might finally be getting somewhere near the middle of the teeter totter. Yesterday I was received with both grace and openness by Michael Stone and Mark Bellissimo at the WEF grounds, where I was taken on a tour by golf cart and then car of the WEF and Global Dressage Festival venues […]

If you haven’t seen the comments posted on my two WDM freestyle blogs, you might want to check those out before reading on. I feel compelled to respond to the remarks left by several readers. First of all, to Leueen, my sincere apologies if you took my line about old ladies personally. There WERE quite […]

Thank goodness for the second half of the WDM freestyle competition. I don’t believe in DQ gods, so my prayer of last night’s post was made with absolutely no faith that an omniscient entity would intervene on my (and the horses’) behalf. No, the gods don’t make people ride well. I would like to express […]

We are in the half way break of the freestyles at the Masters, and I am pleading with the DQ gods to improve on the first half – by A LOT. I’m not going to name names because I don’t need more enemies in Dressage Land – but I just saw a set of riders […]

I’m sitting here at the Jim Brandon Center, waiting for the rather tiny GP Special of the WDM Palm Beach to get going. Between the flu (Edward Gal), scratching pre-jog (Aussie debutante Nicholas Fyffe),  and bloody spur marks (Tina Konyot) there’s been rather a lot of drop off at this year’s event. Right up until […]