A month flies by, filled with road trips and of course the usual ups and downs of competition. Our next outing after Bromont with the two Intermediate horses, Solo and Woody was the Stuart Horse Trials CIC** near Rochester New York. Selena was pumped and ready to rock. Solo was back in his old saddle and his back […]
I have been a bit remiss on the blog lately as several of you have made a point of mentioning 😉 Well, to be honest, cross country day at Badminton was such a NA fiasco that the STRUGGLE to get online at Badminton didn’t even enter our minds. All you can say at the end […]
DAY 7 Sorry everyone I have had no internet access since I arrived at Badminton so I will do my best to remember what happened and get to the good stuff. Wednesday we had a lesson with Colombo early in the morning. David rode him and said he felt good. We rode him in the […]
DAY 6 Two great people arrived today – the “boss” (aka mum) and David. I took Mr. C for a hack this morning on the hills. He took longer than yesterday to focus and stretch, but he did it no problem eventually. I love hacking through the green fields and seeing the race horses hack […]
DAY 4 Gallop day! I took Colombo out for a hack early in the morning. We trotted up the hill and went for a tour. I wanted to jump and gallop around 2:00 p.m. when my family could come and watch. Over lunchtime we went to Marlborough, which is the town just down the street. […]
Yay! Hawley, Gamal, Natalia & Ginny arrived safely today! I took Colombo for a nice trot on the hills with Stephanie and Andrew Hoy. (Yeah, good company here.) Colombo was keen to have his head up and look around. To be fair, it’s an incredible view at the top of the hill. Green landscape with […]
Travel day. Not always my favorite… mostly because I get motion sickness and the cabin pressure hurts my ears. However, this was a night flight and I was asleep before we left the tarmac. I was a bit worried about Colombo as I had received a call from Stephanie (teammate/friend) to say he didn’t want […]
We are still reeling from the incredible support our fundraiser Horses for Japan engendered. It was one of those ‘lie in bed on a Monday morning’ ideas that took over my life for a couple of weeks. I am always amazed by the huge scale of people’s generosity when something like this happens. I literally had people […]
I was watching the gut wrenching videos from Japan and thought that I need to do a something to help out. We did a sponsored musical ride for the 2008 tsunami so this time I thought of doing an online auction. This isn’t high-tech, just something I whipped together with the help of some amazing […]
I am sitting on a plane, flying back from the UK. It was a very short visit. I left on the 19th and I am flying back today, the 26th. Because of connections in the UK from my dim distant past, I was lucky enough to be invited to join Canadian company, Omega Alpha on […]
