Things were a touch hectic at Balsam Hall while Selena and Anne Marie were blogging from the Pan Am Games and Training Camp in Florida. Emma Rafuse and I were flying by the seat of our pants day by day. Different ‘challenges to the daily routine’ would occur, warping what was a highly tuned study […]
October 23rd Sunday, the final day of competition. We did a team jog with Dr. Ober early in the a.m. and Woody looked great! Dr. Ober said “He’s a horse for the future.” Ooooh, gives me goose bumps. All the horses looked stunning for jog thanks to our amazing grooms, Debbie and Dr. Ober. We […]
October 22nd Well, today is going to be a short blog because it’s 10:28 p.m. and I just made it to bed. Let’s start with WAY TO GO JESSICA and Pavarotti! I will write a blow by blow of each fence for Woody and I. Fence #1 was great because we hit it on the […]
October 21st I managed to eat breakfast, which is good because I couldn’t eat for the rest of the day ‘til dressage was done. I remembered all my clothes etc…phew! I sat with John and Judy Rumble (Woody’s owners) to watch all of the dressage. I only missed a few tests today. James started us […]
October 20 Today was a fun filled day. 7:00 a.m. we headed to Hipca. Anne Marie had already done all of Woody’s morning treatments, such as Omega Alpha supplements with breakfast, magnetic blanket, magnetic foot pad, ice, lazer the whole “shebang”. His braids looked amazing and so did he. I hopped on for a 10 […]
October 19th Made it to breaky again…damn I’m good. LOL! We rode early. I was first to go at 8:30 a.m. Woody was a tiny bit sick of dressage today. Everyone watching said he looked great, but I think if he could have spoken it might have been less then positive mutterings about dressage. I […]
At the airport. October 15th Horses fly out mid-morning from Ocala on a charter flight..how cool is that? Lucky grooms get to go with Dr. Ober and the horses. I always wanted to fly with the horses and see what it’s like. We (the riders, David, Debbie and I) fly out from Orlando mid-morning […]
Can you imagine packing for this trip? Two horses to PA – night temps have been as low as 8 degrees, so some warm blankets, rainsheets for turnouts. Then, on to Morven Park – hot through the day, cool enough to need ‘something’ at night, but, of course, it will have to be lighter than the […]
In the 24 hours since I wrote the last blog post, Selena has been named to the Pan Am Team. This was very unexpected and sadly comes with the withdrawal of Jordan McDonald’s ride. This must be a terrible disappointment to his whole team and all of us who have experienced both the highs and lows of […]
After Stuart we took Woody, Colombo and Solo to Richland Park. Colombo did a great dressage, was the fastest of only two clear cross-country rounds in the Advanced division, but, uncharacteristically, had four rails in the show jumping, which dropped him from second to fifth. Selena did a lot of second guessing of herself and in the […]
