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 tha

It’s not every day I find myself in unconditional agreement with the boobalicious star of an eighties show I never watched and the model for a magazine I’ve never perused, but yesterday I found myself nodding enthusiastically while readin

The other day I went on a safari tour about 45 min away from my house. It was incredible and it was a blast to just be a kid all day and walk around and look at all these exotic animals. I love it how animals can always make you laugh and put a smile

(Parental advisory: Today’s post is rated ‘curmudgeon’ and is not recommended for anger-sensitive readers) Last Thursday, the long awaited ‘official’ Olympic team announcement was finally made at Spruce Meadows. A press

I last wrote about EC’s ex-CEO, the man I used to refer to only partly in jest as ‘our fearless leader’,  some weeks ago. After all, now that Akaash is no longer part of that well oiled bureaucratic machine known as Equine Canada,

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

OVER MY DEAD BODY Wills and Horses by Catherine Willson and Bhavin Bilimoria   A will is a document prepared during your lifetime that directs the distribution of your assets and possessions on your death. It enables you to divide your estate as

Take one crisply pressed,  fluttering Maple Leaf and run it all the way to the top of the flagpole at the EC office (which I’ve never seen, but they must have a flagpole, right?) and give a shout of joy. For EC has bestowed upon us a press rel

I have to say that Austria is one of my favourite places in Europe so far. I felt so at home with the big mountains peering down at me. I have this feeling of closeness with them around me and the fresh air. I was just in heaven as we weaved our way

Back by popular demand, the Karen Voodoo doll is being offered in a Limited London Edition, called the Cockney Karen Voodoo Doll. Every time you jab her, she cries out with exclamations of ‘crikey’, ‘blimey’, or ‘sod it&