Actually, what the FEI GA has given me is the exact opposite of a hangover. I woke up at 4:45 this morning, my head buzzing with a hundred different details from the past two days. Here are a few of the things that were swirling around in my overstim

Today’s post comes with a soundtrack suggestion. Remember that song by The Boss, ‘I’m Going Down’? Well that is what I hummed as I descended down, down, down from the apartment I rented (much cheaper than a hotel, no need to d

Things at the FEI GA finally spiced up at the end of a very long presentation by the Endurance Strategic Planning Group (aka ESPG). Especially when a diminutive and predictably sun-tanned little fellow named Malcolm McDonald got hold of the microphon

Now that I’m finally allowed into something, here I sit in the cathedral atmosphere of the FEI Rule Change meeting that always takes place the day before the GA. The point of this session is to acquaint the NFs with any potentially contentious

No excitement in Solo’s life until he does Plantation Field in Pennsylvania on the way home.  He is entered to go Open Training again. This is a very different course to the one he just did. Rocking Horse is very flat and Plantat

Finally Solo pulled his elegant finger out and got on with all three phases on the same day! This past weekend was his Training debut, at Rocking Horse Spring Horse Trials in Florida.  He was entered in the Open Training division and his owners,

Well February roared past without taking a break.  I had a wonderful visit in Florida and saw Solo do his 2008 debut at the Novice level at the Ocala horse park.  He did a less than spectacular dressage, but way better than the first outing

Well that was worth setting the alarm for six on a Sunday morning. What a final over there in sunny Barcelona (that’s Barthelona you know). Killer, killer course it was  today. Only four clears (plus one with a single time fault) out of 32 sta

Solo’s first show of 2008 will be ‘Ocala Winter ll’ at the Florida Horse Park on the middle weekend of February. He is six years old this year and we have greater expectations for this season. So far he has been

Solo is having a fine time in the sun and sand.  Last year Solo was ill for a day or so after each long journey.  This year we were fortunate enough to have gained some expert advice from Dr. Gayle Becker of Guelph University.  She adv