Please excuse the forthcoming expletive, but a truck load of German shit has hit the proverbial fan. Thursday was quite a day in the ongoing doping drama. An item hit my inbox that morning which got my immediate attention. It was an FEI press release

Solo is looking and feeling good.  He is living out at night with his buddy ‘Dudley Do Right’ and comes in during the day to be worked.  The bugs have been low and the weather has been mostly fine, all the horses are thriving bu

It seems incredible, but since I can’t find any WEG team selection criteria on the USET’s unfriendly site (or anywhere else using Almighty Google), it looks like Canada is nicely on top of the game, at least where dressage is concerned. The WEG s

After all the excitement (and tragedy) at Vegas and then Rolex the next week, it’s pretty quiet out there in the public domain of equestrian sport – unless you are either UK-based or rich and freewheeling enough to have attended Badminton this we

Solo has been steadily improving in all aspects of his work.  It’s not that he has suddenly become an angel and never stands up and waves to the crowd, it’s more that he and Selena both know that it’s a waste of time now, more

With this post I bid farewell to the Vegas experience, not only for this year, but probably for the indefinite future. WC show jumping has been awarded to European venues through 2013. I think it highly unlikely that Vegas would bid for dressage only

If you read my post about the comment that was left on my WC freestyle entry (The Roof is off the T&M), then please read the following. If you never saw it, then I’m glad  because I am not very happy about what happened. The perso

Don’t worry, I am far from finished talking about the WC. There is still jumping to discuss, especially the irony of Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum looking all misty in a cowboy hat while the German anthem played on her home soil of the USA. Check

For those of you who didn’t come to Vegas this year, I have some bad news for you. You missed what might have been the best freestyle competition in the history of dressage. No joke. It was stupendous and I get goose bumps writing about it, even at

Well, to you folks who stayed home this time, you are missing some great action. And they have great clothes this time, with no line ups because numbers are definitely down. The buzz about Steffen winning yesterday is still louder than a concert by K