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If you don’t go to WEG, go to GDF!

No, I’m not being profane. GDF is not twitter-speek for an insult too nasty to spell out. If you a) are saving your pennies by skipping WEG and b) are a DQ or wannabe DQ, then you should head on over to the Netherlands in October for the tenth
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Busy times

The last little bit has been really busy.  My friend Sara is here visiting untill the 30th and her parents are also here for a visit. They’re like my second family so it was nice to see some familiar faces from home. Sara has a stalli
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Follow me! My WEG blog schedule

I know there are many of you who either can’t make it to WEG or decided you would say ‘no thanks’ to the grossly inflated prices that pass for Kentucky’s tourism philosophy (if you are going to charge what the market will bear
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Monty Python’s Provincial Flying Circus

Well, they’ve finally done it. Just like Thelma and Louise driving off the cliff, the six hell-no provinces officially seceded from Equine Canada this week. And that is where the similarity to T & L ends (after all, truth IS stranger than f
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Who is Captain Canada?

Even more pressing is the question: why is everyone’s blog starting to look like a CoTH forum? Last week it was RD’s blog, now it’s a guest post that Steph Rhodes-Bosch (the daughter I never had) wrote on EventingNation. In the post
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I’m all a flutter

There is just so much to write about this week! Spruce, the Canadian Eventing team announcement, Show Jumping team announcement (which I hope will be in my inbox tomorrow), Canadian dressage fund raiser, which dabbled in human trafficking….look
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Lost – then found – in Translation

Sorry for the delay, folks. The translation I was waiting for didn’t go up on Anky’s site until late yesterday afternoon. See, when I read Astrid’s announcement Sunday that Anky had dropped the law suit, I noticed she quoted from a
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Come back Tomorrow

Hi everyone – just a quick ‘hello’ to ask you to tune in tomorrow for this week’s blog. I’m waiting for something important to be translated that I want to share with you. A demain!   
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Balance

This week, Vitall really showed me how important balance is in training. This was my first lesson training with Anky again and it was good. She said that his frame looked much better which meant that I had improved some things while she was away
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Only one more selection trial to go.

Richland Park was HUGE.  I went there three years ago when they had a tornado go through and take down all the tents.  It has grown in the past three years.  It has to be one of the biggest events in America if you are just counting en