No sporting body can have rules for every bizarre eventuality. You must be able to assume that the vast majority of participants have a modicum of common sense and integrity.  Who, after all, would have thought you’d need to spell out that riders

While this question may almost range into the field of anthropomorphization (ascribing human characteristics to an animal), your horse’s ‘happiness’ or being comfortable is probably of critical interest to you as his owner and rider. You know y

I’m writing this from Richland Park, which typically marks the beginning of the fall season after a slight lull over the summer. This summer though has been anything but! After a very successful Bromont, Woody and Solo turned their attentions t

We are one week into our trip and Chorizo is happy to report he has visited almost enough chateaus to at least temporarily satisfy his culture-vulture needs. So far his hands down favourite is one called Serrant. France is one of the world’s mo

I cannot believe how quickly the summer is passing us by. It seems the older I get, the faster time goes. Does anyone else notice this? It’s almost time for back to school and if you are parents like me, it’s a stressful time with budgeting and b

I’ve been in a funk recently. It all started with what we shall politely call the “enigma that was the Canadian Eventing Team choices for the Pan Am Games” (read August’s Horse Sport editorial if you need help with that one). Then, of course,

Horses are lucky, they don’t obsess about what others think of them, but if ever a horse deserved to retire with dignity, it’s Totilas.

How appropriate to be posting my last blog before departing for France this afternoon, and to feel the powerful urge to use a French expression (or part of it, anyway) in my title for today. My sensation of déjà vu takes me back to exactly three y

I thought it was a good time to revisit this since it is an often recurring question every person on my sales team gets asked when they are working in the field with clients. “What does the red shoe mean that you have in your ads? I see it at almos

British show jumping has taken a big gamble on a 19-year-old senior team debutante in its last ditch bid to qualify for Rio. On Monday, the British squad for next week’s mega-critical European jumping championships in Aachen was named, and it incl