Well this weekend was very full of Badminton Horse Trials. We were excited to watch the North American contingent. The Apprentice just didn’t seem to have his head in the game from the start of cross country. Buck did everything he could to energiz

So yesterday was my birthday.  Who the heck wants to go on having birthdays after you are fifty.  I mean if you reach half a century, you should just be considered ‘on your second half’ and let it go at that.  It was a lovely day and t

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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