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 fe

Selena has been gone for most of the month of July and Solo and I are surviving.  Actually, it’s going a lot better than expected and I am thoroughly enjoying the ride on the flat.  I am not going to be jumping him and I am not going

Well Solo is in Canada and Selena and I are in the USA so his life is fairly quiet right now.  I am helping Selena drive Colombo down to training camp at David O’Connor’s farm in Ocala, Florida.  En route, we had a two day

I have a really good excuse for being so late with the blog this time.  Selena and Colombo have been named to the Olympic Team and it has been very hard to concentrate on much else on the weeks preceding the announcement.  Now that it has f

We made our annual pilgrimage to Vancouver’s Hastings Park for the wiener dog races on Sunday, and perhaps that is part of the reason this whole Chuckwagons and Thoroughbred racing situation just won’t leave my head. A commenter to my ant

If you have no idea what Chuckwagon racing is, count yourself lucky and skip today’s post. Ignorance really is bliss in this case. I consider Chuckwagon racing to be nothing more than sanctioned horse abuse. And the wheel horse that shattered a

Hysteria is sweeping the Dressage Nation! Tongues are flying everywhere, blood gushing out! Nosebands are so tight they are causing horse’s muzzles to literally fall off their faces and lifeless blue tongues are lolling as a result of relentles

I’m back! It’s a well-known fact of holidays that the hardest part is the return. And the more ‘away’ in nature the holiday, the harder the transition. Even though I’ve been to places much more far flung and exotic than

Vitall has been going super since the show. He continues to get stronger and stronger. We are still working on tweaking everything, being able to adjust the speed and frame within the movements. In the piaffe, we are working on being able to make qui

This past weekend I rode my first Grand Prix with Vitall. We did the Under 25 Young Rider GP. I was so excited after my test I almost cried. Vitall gave me such a great feeling from warm-up to the final salute. We really felt like a team in there. I