Another week has whipped by. Three of the horses competed at Will O Wind, all were wonderful.  It was our three sales horses and I hope they will all upgrade successfully at Grandview this coming weekend making them eminently saleable.  It&

I am so very proud of Solo.  He did his first Intermediate at Wit’s End in a blizzard (no kidding) and was fantastic.  He did a really good dressage test with just one change of lead in his counter canter when he got a bit prancy.&nbs

The power came back on and I have a few minutes to kill before we do one last souvenir shopping spree on the way to the airport, so here are several more photos of our Costa Rican adventure.   In the land where even the fence posts grow leaves,

Costa Rica is so beautiful it makes me sick. And I’m not talking metaphorically. I have been to this delightfully colourful, clean, safe and wildlife-jam-packed country three times over the past three years; on each occasion I have been immedia

This week has been very quiet. It’s back to fall here, pouring rain for almost a week strait, and I have had to pull out my down jackets again. A big change from 25* from the previous weeks. Just means I get all my laundry and cleanin

After Rolex there has been some let down time in terms of Colombo and the feverish preparation for a four star, plus a lowering of the general agitation and suppressed excitement that the run up to Rolex generates throughout the whole team.  Sel

It felt like the Anky Pony Club on Friday morning with all of us running around gathering our gear, preparing the truck, hanging hay nets, adding shavings etc… We had Anky’s head groom Wilica’s mom drive us which was nice. She

FORWARD, FORWARD, FORWARD Through the weekend and today that is all Vitall and I have been working on in our lessons. I’m working on keeping him forward and short. Every time I ask him to stay forward/active he goes forward a few strides then s

What, two blogs in a day you ask? I’m making up for being late this week, and also  stock piling reading material because next week I am going to Costa Rica to work on freestyles and then to have a few days in the fabulous natural surround

There will be no M’s in today’s post. No, not when there is such incredible good news to report from our eventers at Rolex. It is almost certainly the best result ever for Canada – I’d nearly bet money on it and as you know I