Friday’s run through of the int 1 went really well. I was really nervous before hand and I didn’t run through the test in advance though I had done small bits of it. In the days leading up to the show, I was working on more basi

The Summer is a rushing river that carries the whole barn along like uncontrolled flotsam and jetsam.  The weeks are spiraling rapidly towards the WEG and I keep panicking about how I am going to get the barn packed and ready to move in the few

In today’s world of blogs, Twitter, Face Book etc, it is almost overwhelming how quickly news circulates. I’ve been meaning to write about this fact for a while, because I think such unprecedented access benefits the less publicly popular

On Friday, I am heading to another schooling show to go through Vitall’s first Int 1 and I’m really looking forward to it.. finally full pirouettes! I find them so much easier to ride. Vitall has been going really well over the

I subscribe to the ‘work hard play hard’ life philosophy, and as such have just returned from two blissfully non-horsey weeks aboard our sailboat. And lest you get any thoughts of me being a richy-rich with a John Kerry-esque $7,000,000 y

You wouldn’t think a left half pass would be difficult or that making both your hands follow one another would be hard. Well, the other day my brain decided that these were very, very difficult tasks. I could not make my right hand follow the l

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qx79V-JO5g This is Selena’s dressage on Song of Songs, her one star horse from Will O Wind last weekend. All in all, the weekend was a great success. Song of Songs was third in her first one star. She had one rai

I made a trip home last week to surprise my dad for his birthday! We haven’t been together as a family for his birthday in the last three years so it was fantastic to be able to surprise him. I also visited with some friends and ran around town

There is quite a lot going on considering it’s the dog days of summer (what does that mean, anyway?). Of course that little horse show in Kentucky this fall jut might have something to do with it, but here are a few things you might not have kn

It’s that time of year again when Hastings Park Racetrack in Vancouver invites the city’s Dachshunds and their owners to be the between-race entertainment. We all know the horse racing industry is struggling to compete against other forms