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 be

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 t

More breaking news from the Pan Am eventing. Jessie Phoenix has just become the first Canadian gold medalist eventer at the Pan Am games since Nick Holmes-Smith won twenty years ago in 1991! Everyone is just so proud! Now we just need to flog the COC

Medal ceremonies are just completed, and soon the individual show jumping will start. Jessie Phoenix is still leading, but with only a time penalty in hand. Cross your fingers for her and Pavarotti!

This photo was taken after a long day under the Mexican sun on cross country yesterday. Eduardo, who has been so good at making up for the shortcomings of the organizers when it comes to the media’s needs, finally dropped the medicine ball last

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 “she

A lot has happened in the last little bit. I had a great visit with my mom. She had her horsey fix and I had my “mommy” time. There is nothing better than having your mom around to share your time with. She got to meet all my friends here

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

Yesterday was a rest day so Janner and I decided to take in the folkloric charms and artisans of Tlaquepaque, a former village near Guad that has now been swallowed by the sprawl of six million people. We arrived around lunch time and agreed eating o

  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, Dav