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Everything goes by in a blur

The days are running into each other.  Sunday was great, the live stream of the jog at Rolex on Sunday morning was a welcome time waster.  It’s very hard to know that the jog is on and not watch it.  It is heart stopping when someone is sent
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Treeless Saddles

I just realized that although the whole topic of treeless saddles vs. treed saddles is a pretty controversial one, I have not until now shared my personal thoughts with you on them in this blog space. Please do understand, however, that my thoughts a
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Life, Law and Legislation

About two weeks ago in England, a prestigious writing award for young people announced their winners and published the articles they had written. Last week, the Belgian Appeal court upheld their decision that the FEI could not penalise top athletes f
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Random Thoughts on the Randomness of Rankings

Last year I had quite a few conversations with the sports desk of a national newspaper which went something like this: “Hello, can I interest you in a piece about Scott Brash winning his fourth consecutive Grand Prix?” “We’re a bit short of s
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Cross Country Day

It’s cross country morning at Rolex! There’s a certain feel to cross country morning especially at the big events. I’m very lucky to be staying on site thanks to the Camolio family, I got to know them this winter as Lee trained with
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Stressage…

Thursday was relatively quiet. I started off the day with a long a low “massage dressage” as Bruce calls it, on Woody. He felt good and relaxed, lots of swung. Anne Marie videoed so I could review. In the afternoon I had a lesson with Jac
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Professional Crisis

It is almost May and what that means for us southern equine professionals is that we can just about take a sigh of relief with the crazy winter season coming to an end. We have pretty much been at events every single weekend for the last month and ha
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Jog report from Selena at Rolex

Wednesday was a fun day. Megan Woods & Mike Campbell arrived and watched their horse Derg Boru (King Brian) work. Megan will be riding him for the rest of the week now that she’s here. King Brian and I showed Megan some of the things weR
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5 Reasons Horses Are Like Toddlers

Okay, so you all know that I live and work with horses everyday. While I don’t have any children of my own, I played a big role in raising my nephew, Liam. I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between my horses and Liam when he was a toddl
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First day at Rolex

It was a laid back day in Kentucky. Selena hacked Woody and let him take in all the scenery and did much the same with Derg Boru who is taking it all in stride. Anne Marie texted me early in the morning to say that Tim Price had said good morning to