Solo was SO well behaved at his first FEI event that he was unrecognisable.  We arrived on the Wednesday around mid day.  Selena tacked up Solo while I laid 8 bags of shavings into the stall provided – I mention this because when we moved Solo we had to buy more shavings and it is […]

Glen Oro and Ottawa are behind us and we leave for Bromont in about an hour. Glen Oro was good.  He was a bit spooked in the dressage ring (as usual) and didn’t do as good a dressage as the week before but no big arguments, just spooking and being silly every chance he gets….sigh.  […]

Solo is looking and feeling good.  He is living out at night with his buddy ‘Dudley Do Right’ and comes in during the day to be worked.  The bugs have been low and the weather has been mostly fine, all the horses are thriving but Solo seems to be thriving more than most!  He is […]

Solo has been steadily improving in all aspects of his work.  It’s not that he has suddenly become an angel and never stands up and waves to the crowd, it’s more that he and Selena both know that it’s a waste of time now, more out of habit and for effect, rather than his really […]

Solo did his first Prelim with Selena at the Rocking Horse Spring Horse Trials in Florida.  Selena entered him straight into the Open Prelim (as opposed to Prelim Horse which is restricted to horses in their first season of Prelim) and he was a star right from the beginning. He worked in well for the […]

Solo was wonderful at his first Prelim and is going from strength to strength.  Even with a rail he finished 12th, and his cross country was superb! It’s so nice to hear people say “What a beautiful horse” and ask us how he is bred and where he came from.  Everywhere he goes he is […]

Solo did his first competition of the year today.  He did the open training division of the Rocking Horse Advanced HT which ran today.  He was still showing attitude through the week and Selena was discouraged that she was not getting all she felt the horse has to give.  She had talked to Bruce yesterday […]

The next day turned out to be wet…very wet.  The rain came down in torrents and working the horses was a misery.  They all hacked out and that was the end of their day.   At 2pm the following day, Solo and Selena were ready to go for round two at Bruce’s.  Solo was a […]

Next day, 2pm exactly (Bruce is a stickler for time keeping) we were ready with a less than enthusiastic Solo who had an “oh no, not this again” look on his face.  But today he was to be ridden by Selena.  No jumping, since he had done that the day before, but all the same […]