I had planned to chronicle the first four weeks/first four shows of our season, and this weekend should have been number three. Selena had planned an eventing debut at ‘Rocking Horse,’ at the Novice level, for ‘Rosein’, our beautiful sale horse. She is an Irish Draft X Hanoverian, not a mix I have ever come […]

On their second outing the boys really pulled their socks up. Rocky and Woody were moved up to Advanced at Pine Top this past weekend. Solo had to stay at the OI level after having taken issue with the corners at Rocking Horse. They all finished top placed Canadians in their respective divisions. After having […]

The season has finally begun for O’Hanlon Eventing. On Friday last, Selena rode Bellany Rock, Foxwood High and A First Romance in the open intermediate at Rocking Horse in Florida. Dressage first, they were all great. We were particularly pleased with Solo (A First Romance) who put in a really solid performance to get a […]

Another year is over here at O’Hanlon Eventing, with Christmas behind us…just…everything now revolves around the timing of Selena’s trek South as the first training camp with the new trainer, Clayton Fredericks is February first, meaning the horses need to be down there at least a week ahead, weather gods permitting. With the year ending […]

It’s not often that I blog again this quickly, but O’Hanlon Eventing has a very exciting announcement, and where better to announce but here! As of yesterday, ‘Bellany Rock’, Jean Rablat’s lovely Irish Advanced eventer has been given to Selena to ride. Jean made the arrangements with the help of Arthur Tateishi from Eventing Canada […]

The Royal is over, Christmas is coming and most barns are experiencing a small lull in the clamour. Our barn seems to go flat out from December the first until Eventing night at the Royal, then finally, two or three weeks of calm. Our own personal ‘calm’ is filled to the brim with winterizing, cleaning, […]

Things have been moderately quiet since Bromont, the only big excitements being an outing to Richland. Before Richland, Selena took Solo and Woody (aka Foxwood High) to Bruce Davidson’s for a tune up then onwards to Michigan, we certainly put the miles on our trailer. Richland was a good outing, they both ran Advanced, first […]

It’s a hot hard summer here in Ontario at the moment.  We are entering all sorts of upcoming events with the full knowledge that if we don’t get rain we won’t be running any of the upper level horses much.  Only the qualifiers that they absolutely have to run at.  I imagine the event organisers […]

Bromont didn’t quite go as hoped.  It’s hard to say why.  Colombo has only eliminated Selena twice in six years and unfortunately Bromont was one of them.  It may have been the grueling schedule he had followed this Spring, five three star in four months!  We had hoped that the selector might not run the […]

Now it is all focus on Bromont.  Selena is riding Foxwood High in the two star.  This will probably be his last two star outing and she is looking forward to it.  He competed at Grandview in the Open Intermediate, we are pretty sure he finished second but as Selena had to leave early to […]