Well it’s rained…A LOT! There was a little sun while the Canadian team trained today with Clayton. 🙂 Team jog at 8:00 a.m. was horribly soggy. 🙁 There was a 9:15 a.m. last warm up area ring familiarization for 20 minutes today. Ther

What a way to spend your birthday, posting a personal best, and at the World Championships no less. I think Belinda was the first rider of the morning to improve on her GP score. Everyone before her had failed to do so; in fact, I think all but one h

Someone PLEASE turn down the music in here. The background music they normally play during dressage to cancel out random noise that bothers the horse, and to lull the borderline interested into a light snooze, is being played at near rock concert vol

Competitors who have never even subconsciously contemplated rule-breaking will be subjected to the type of surveillance one normally associates with electronically-tagged bank robbers out on parole, when the WEG endurance ride sets off from Sartilly

Was a very busy day! I hacked and did a little flat with the Woodster. He felt really good after his gallop the day before. Not tired or stiff, just happy. 🙂 I packed up all my stuff and AM packed all Woody’s gear. The vet came to finalize t

The morning was fairly uneventful. Had a team meeting about logistics for tomorrow’s trip to France. 🙂 In the afternoon, we shipped the horses 30 minutes down the road to Bradbury Castle for a gallop on all-weather terrain. Was four furlongs

Today we started a little earlier so we could get away on time for show jumping at Rectory farm. What a great venue – super footing and lovely colored jumps. Course was all set we just had to raise it to scary height. 😉 Jessica and Peter went fi

I was rattling off a list of judging sins that I’ve witnessed today to my colleague and pal Pamela Young, and she cleverly dubbed my rant the Sin Bin. So here are a few judging sins I’ve observed today, in no particular order: Parzival: T

What a way to start day two of team dressage, with the amazing Isabell and her beautiful Bella Rose. It’s another world from yesterday to watch the likes of Isabell. Worth getting up at 5:30 am for, without a doubt.  It’s only a month an

I think David Marcus needs a nickname, and I’m voting for Rainmaker. In a spooky repeat of London 2012, the skies opened up with renewed fury just as he was about to begin his test this afternoon. But if David needs a second nick name it’