Yesterday we took Solo and another four year old off the property to school. It was very hot during the day so we took them later in the evening but even then, we were still limited by the heat and humidity. Both the youngsters behaved like stars. We

“The best laid plans o’ mice and men, gang aft agley” is a quote from Rabbie Burns the Scottish poet (if I got it right), and that just about sums up the last few days. Monday morning dawned bright and clear, and my mind, which neve

Finally at about 11.30am we had the health certificate from the vet and all that left to be done was to take them to the federal office in Kingston or Brockville and have them stamped.  Wary by this time, I had phoned ahead to the Kingston office to

Obviously if we had sparkled as expected you would all have heard about it. We sparkled without the “L”. His first warm up was like a wiggly worm. Not being stupid or terribly excited and not doing anything he has not done at home –

Next was the jumping phase. We had been led to believe this was a stadium course. We had also been under the impression that doing this class would be a nice introduction for Solo before he did a Pre Training event. We were expecting something betwee

There was more to Millbrook. The actual young event horse competition was on the Thursday. On Friday while Selena prepared for her dressage test with Peanuts, I lunged and rode Solo who was moderately well behaved. On the Saturday the cross country w

On the way to Florida looking for Solo’s winter quarter’s my computer got annihilated. I will be back on line as soon as the situation is rectified.

I keep putting off the blog entry in hopes of some nice weather to take new photos. I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon. It is way too wet to take my precious camera outside. We will all be in the indoor arena tomorrow, we ha

Last week Solo proved that he is a grown up horse. On the Tuesday and the Wednesday I rode him in the Pat Burgess Clinic – he was absolutely wonderful and managed to comply with all my requests, whether badly or well requested! He turned, he ju

This last week both Selena and I were at Virginia for the CCI**. It’s not that often throughout the year that we are both away for more than a day. Previously, Solo has often had time off while we are both gone, but he is older now and his work