Cross country day was everything it was meant to be. Selena galloped and jumped and galloped and jumped and galloped and jumped. All three horses were fantastic and they were all in fine form. King Brian (Derg Boru) was first to go. He has been hones

Dressage day was a blast. All the horses were good in the ring. There’s always something you want to improve upon, that’s the way it is with riding and horses, isn’t it? Woody needs to do a better job on his extensions at both walk and trot, Ze

Dr Hallvard Sommerseth has been suspended for a mere two years for his role in the submission of over 500 sets of bogus endurance results to the FEI.

Well the gang’s all here! Red Hills is packed to capacity. Maizey and Bizzy no longer have free range of the showgrounds and as you can see they are giving us ‘the look.’ All you dog owners know exactly what we mean. There are over 60 in the on

At 6:30 this morning, Anne Marie, Selena, two dogs (Maizey and Bizzy), three horses (Zephyr, Derg Boru and Foxwood High) set off for Tallahassee and the Red Hills event. It has been a big favourite with us since it first began and I don’t think Sel

Today was a fun day. We got done early at the barns so that we could sit around the fireplace, eat stuff and watch the Eventing Prix on Livestream. I always get terribly nervous when Selena is competing. I have been known to put my head in a bag… T

We’re down to the last two tips in my series of 9 Points of Saddle Fit. I have consolidated them because they work very much together. You really can’t have one without the other, which is something that many saddle manufacturers (especially thos

Monday is a hard day to blog if you are living here at Balsam Hall. My big excitement of the day is to go to physiotherapy…sigh. Selena, however, has a busy day every day and today is no exception. As soon as the sun was high enough to be safe, she

Sunday Marta did both her her jumping phases and Sammy did his cross country. There was sharks’ teeth on our course that were hidden in the shade. He took a good hard look at them. I growled very loudly at him and he jumped. He was very brave

Saturday was a fun day of showing. I took Sammy the dressage horse to his first event and Marta took Thunder to their first event together. Thunder and Marta put in a very good dressage test scoring a 33. She’s only had the chance to ride him a