It is Thanksgiving week here in the USA and I still haven’t really gotten used to how close together the American’s put their two turkey dinner nights, so I have adapted by changing my Christmas meal to roast beef instead. Anyhoo, the first thing

It may be just my vintage, but I am cringing at the thought of eventing being re-named. We are all worried about its long-term prospects within the Olympics, but I simply don’t get how a new moniker will make any difference to the sport’s popular

I was actually going to write about another very sad case study of a horse, but I thought it would be timely to put some thoughts down about our iconic Canadian horse/trade/agricultural show instead. (So case study will be moved to next week’s entr

Please allow me to share with you the response I received from EC regarding the rationale for making the Rio criteria secret  -and yes this policy is across the disciplines. Here is what I was sent: ‘The decision not to publish CET selection

I work with my friend Dr. Joanna Robson, DVM (Author of Recognizing the Horse in Pain and What You Can Do About It) occasionally and confer with her often on horse issues that arise due to poor saddle fit, so we exchange war stories. She is also one

I meant to tell you the Apathy Society cancelled its meeting due to lack of interest, but I couldn’t be bothered… How many tens of thousands of man-hours have been expended thinking up new formats for the Olympics and WEG, only to end up not far

I often come across clients who complain that their saddle has caused muscle atrophy. I think there is some misunderstanding of what exactly muscle atrophy is and how is it different from good muscle definition. When a muscle has been trained for mor

At last Florida’s summer heat and humidity is finally moderating with November on the door step. My dogs have, as a result, recovered their energy during the day and the horses can move out of the shade. The year seems to have flown by. After f

Dear EC: Perhaps you have not been following the election of our new Prime Minister (who am I kidding? You are in Ottawa, for cripe’s sake), but in the very unlikely case that you haven’t, I’d like to bring to your attention the f

I just recently came off of a ‘killer trip’ again with my most long term agent, Christiane Noelting of the Christiane Noelting Dressage Center in Vacaville, CA, where I saw 150 of our valued California clients in less than two weeks. It was – a