Wow! What a shock today has been. First of all I had to take myself out of sleep mode after three blissful days of camping with my husband and girlfriends in the desert. And what sharper contrast to pristine wilderness than the world of drive-through

First off, I have a bit of bad news to share with Americans who hoped to use FEI TV to watch the World Cup from the comfort of your desks – or living rooms if you are that much of a technical wizard. I have received an unconfirmed report that it is

By this time next week Sin City will be crawling with horse lovers of all kinds, not to mention some of the world’s finest equine athletes. I’m one of those people for whom ‘once in a lifetime is plenty’ when it comes to visiting Vegas, but t

I may have got what I wanted when Anky announced last week that she would take Painted Black to Las Vegas, but not everyone is happy about the outcome. I received comments and emails on both sides of the fence, and I suspect there are more people out

Today’s grammatical grotesqueries come to you courtesy of the FEI, where the horses have ‘extended gates’, the rules become ‘reglements’ and rider’s are ‘proud on’ their horses. The press release for the final WC dressage qualifier in

Hola! Due to my travels last week, I failed to satisfy some of the regular visitors to the blog. As a result, I received some emails this week from people who wanted to know if the blog is a regular thing and if they can expect a posting on a certain

Solo did his first Prelim with Selena at the Rocking Horse Spring Horse Trials in Florida.  Selena entered him straight into the Open Prelim (as opposed to Prelim Horse which is restricted to horses in their first season of Prelim) and he was a

Today I want to talk about how amazingly under someone’s skin I managed to get last week (see the copious comments posted below my Dancing DQ blog, February 28th). I don’t intend to let this blog get overrun by an on line boxing match with Mr. Sl

Solo was wonderful at his first Prelim and is going from strength to strength.  Even with a rail he finished 12th, and his cross country was superb! It’s so nice to hear people say “What a beautiful horse” and ask us how he is

Warning: The material contained in today’s blog is rated DQ (that would be Dressage Queen, not Dairy Queen) I have just recently (this morning in fact) been apprised of the tremendous judging gaff that occurred at the WC qualifier in Mechelen, when