Solo qualified on his third Intermediate horse trial.  Not bad I suppose, but I am still a big niggled that he stopped at Grandview because he just HAD to spook. Grrrr.  He ran at Headwaters and came sixth in the OI there.  This coming

Details, details… i find they are the key difference with the European judges, they pick on all the little things compared to riding in North America. They pick on wether the transition was at the right letter, balanced, rhythm e

It isn’t really the case with show jumping, but the dressage at Aachen is like a preview of what kind of battle field we can expect two months from now in bluegrass country. The team results won’t be final until after the Special, but I d

I was working on an article about Victoria Winter’s impressive WEG-qualifying results at Blainville; since I didn’t make the trek to la belle province this year I went online to watch videos of Victoria and her American rivals who came (f

All I can say is I feel like I am living in a desert. For the last week and a half we have had record breaking heat between 25-36 degrees. We are all melting. Add to that the horse flies that are out in full force and attacking us. We

In addition to being a muckraker, I am also intrepid, according to a slightly less intrepid blogger on The Carrot (only less so because we don’t know who you are, not because you shy away from controversy, oh no!). My Oxford dictionary reveals

Yellow cards. I saw a lot of them over the past few days of watching World Cup Soccer (football to any of you out there not from the barbarian lands of NA), and you know what? They looked like they worked pretty well. The odd player kind of shoved hi

Last weekend we took a busload to a dressage show in Belleville at Misty Ayr Stables.  Selena was doing five tests on two horses and Anne Marie was doing two tests on one horse.  They won six out of seven of their tests… however…

This Aaturday went really well in Uden. This test was a real learning experience. I think Vitall and I now finally have our routine down pat and this was the first time he didn’t quit on me. The overall feeling felt great. I was able to ke

  I’m a muckraker.  Two weeks ago I was called a muckraker by someone. The term has had negative connotations in our society for some years, but I had a dim memory of learning about muckrakers during my university days, and the meanin