At 6:30 this morning, Anne Marie, Selena, two dogs (Maizey and Bizzy), three horses (Zephyr, Derg Boru and Foxwood High) set off for Tallahassee and the Red Hills event. It has been a big favourite with us since it first began and I don’t think Selena has ever missed a year riding there. The first […]

Today was a fun day. We got done early at the barns so that we could sit around the fireplace, eat stuff and watch the Eventing Prix on Livestream. I always get terribly nervous when Selena is competing. I have been known to put my head in a bag… The only ‘big’ thing I ever […]

Monday is a hard day to blog if you are living here at Balsam Hall. My big excitement of the day is to go to physiotherapy…sigh. Selena, however, has a busy day every day and today is no exception. As soon as the sun was high enough to be safe, she took Zephyr cross country […]

Sunday Marta did both her her jumping phases and Sammy did his cross country. There was sharks’ teeth on our course that were hidden in the shade. He took a good hard look at them. I growled very loudly at him and he jumped. He was very brave at the water and ditch. We made time […]

Saturday was a fun day of showing. I took Sammy the dressage horse to his first event and Marta took Thunder to their first event together. Thunder and Marta put in a very good dressage test scoring a 33. She’s only had the chance to ride him a handful of times during visits to Canada […]

King Brian did his Intermediate with Selena today. He has already gone Intermediate with his actress owner, Megan Woods. Megan is very busy on the ‘Nashville’ film set this Winter and Selena has been lucky enough to be offered the ride. He is a lovely Irish boy as you can see in the photo. The […]

Woody had a dressage lesson with Bruce Davidson today. Bruce has been teaching Selena since she was nine and rode a big fat (amazing) Quarter Horse called Toby. He has helped her from she was pre-training through to four star. He knows Selena and her horses very well and that makes him a huge part […]

Yesterday afternoon and evening was meant to be a big super snow/ice/freezing rain storm which fizzled out into a dusting of snow on a dusting of ice. Nothing in the least bit exciting. The horses were able to go out in the paddocks although we left an empty paddock between groups as the only place […]

It’s March already. The four months that Selena spends in the USA is halfway through. The months fly by, and very shortly it will all be about Rio, followed shortly thereafter by the Retired Racehorse Makeover Project. I am super excited about both. I have a passion for young horses and Thoroughbreds are my favourite […]

Today was cross country practice for Marta and Thunder. After all, it’s a leap day so we felt we needed to do some leaping. It’s the first time they have been able to do ‘real’ cross country together. They had a great time as you can see, and Thunder loved it. It’s very satisfying when […]