Another great day. A little old volcano was not enough to stop any of the riders getting to Rolex. Some came in little planes that had to route around the mountains and along the coast and took forever. Ollie had his $3000 dollar taxi ride from Paris to Madrid. British owners lent private planes, and […]
Today was our first full day at Rolex. We drove up from Ocala yesterday and arrive here around 10pm. As the horses are ‘on their way home’ from Ocala to Canada (just a little stopover in Kentucky….) we have two extra horses with us. One of these is our good friend Solo and he is […]
Rolex is one of those things that is always ‘in the future’. I think it’s because you start thinking about it and getting excited about it, way earlier than any other North American event. It rates once more on the upcoming annual list of goals and events, almost as soon as we drive the horses […]
Here I am, sitting in Paneera Bread waiting to see when our truck will be ready to drive us back to Canada. Last week the ‘check engine’ light came on and Selena hot footed it to the Ford dealership. They gave it back to her the same day but an hour into our 10 hour […]
It was very exciting to be asked to represent the sport of Eventing at Can Am, and Selena and I were both looking forward to it. It was also fun to have Selena at home for a weekend since we don’t get to see each other much in the winter. The drive to London seemed […]
The weeks and weekends fly. I can hardly believe it’s almost time to start bringing everybody home from Ocala. Things have heated up SO much there that Selena does not have a minute to type a single word. So I will do all reporting from both sides of the border. So where were we… Colombo didn’t […]
One of my duties in the frozen wastes is to put together the ongoing videos of our horses and to format them and put them up on YouTube. I really enjoy watching the videos, and this year I have encouraged Selena to try to take video of as much as she can, it’s almost like […]
I had spoken to David at training camp and he said “we might not run Colombo cross country at RH2” because he is an older horse and has already been very successful there. Saving his legs for the WEG’s and all. Dressage warm up felt great. He was moving forward nicely and most important (for him) […]
The competition season in Ocala is reaching fever pitch. Everything seems to go slowly and be very civilised in our base in Florida until the end of January, from then on it’s bedlam. Horses going to all kinds of shows at all kinds of different levels, training camps, clinics, lessons, xc schooling – it seems […]
Well as if I didn’t get wet enough on the Tuesday before the show… Friday’s dressage was a monsoon. The rain was pounding sideways and the temperature was five degrees. It was miserable like this all day, the rain never gave up for a second. All my horses were very good about it. Poor Solo went last […]
