Yesterday was a fairly quiet day with just Vaulting Finals (the very first World Cup for that discipline) and the Dressage Freestyle Final at night. I remain in awe of the vaulting athletes. Their grace, rhythm and courage are fun to watch. As with f

… the German’s have decided they like diet Coke! And regular water (not carbonated)! The same lady that told me the other day that they weren’t popular in Germany and not available for sale served me both with a smile this morning. I was th

Yesterday was a very full day! As you can imagine with a horse show with so many different competitions going on, there is always something that you should be watching.  Though the national show jumping competition featured a speed class first t

to leave something on your doorstep. It’s nothing a little soap and water won’t take care of. But seriously, I will have some Good Friday ruminations to make up for today’s rotten egg of a post. And that’s an Easter promise! &

DAY 6 Two great people arrived today – the “boss” (aka mum) and David. I took Mr. C for a hack this morning on the hills. He took longer than yesterday to focus and stretch, but he did it no problem eventually. I love hacking through th

DAY 4 Gallop day! I took Colombo out for a hack early in the morning. We trotted up the hill and went for a tour. I wanted to jump and gallop around 2:00 p.m. when my family could come and watch.  Over lunchtime we went to Marlborough, which is

Yay! Hawley, Gamal, Natalia & Ginny arrived safely today! I took Colombo for a nice trot on the hills with Stephanie and Andrew Hoy. (Yeah, good company here.) Colombo was keen to have his head up and look around. To be fair, it’s an incredible

Travel day. Not always my favorite… mostly because I get motion sickness and the cabin pressure hurts my ears.  However, this was a night flight and I was asleep before we left the tarmac.  I was a bit worried about Colombo as I had r

There is way too much of the ‘P’ word around these days for my taste – from the provinces to the FEI to Canadian elections – it’s all getting me down. And that was before I found out Donald Trump is running for US Presid

Yesterday I wrote a tribute to the memory of BC breeder Janet Oddy, who passed away last month at the age of 81. Reading the information that her son Peter had forwarded for the article took me on a trip down Memory Lane – on the back of an Ara