Hmmmm I don’t love traveling, but I like arriving. Everything went smoothly today minus the torrential downpour (ONLY over Jessica’s farm). The federal vet examined Woody and the trailer this morning early at Balsam Hall (poor girls had t

Time is flying by, and I am having a blast. The horses are handling the heat really well. A lot of horses often stop sweating and drinking in this heat, but all mine so far are doing great. I start riding early in the mornings and finish before the

This is my young horse Bounce. He just last month turned five. He has recently won an event and thus would like to put forward his declaration to Canada for the 2020 Olympic Games. He has no idea as of yet who his rider may be, as his current one thr

I was planning to post this week with some reflections on the total exoneration of Jock Paget, but two things got in the way: Pippa Cuckson has already posted her first blog on this magazine’s website and commandingly addressed the issues on th

There will be mixed feelings in the eventing community regarding the wholesale exoneration of Jock Paget and Kevin McNab for their reserpine doping offences at Burghley 2013. Many people will be feeling terrible that the pair were grounded for so lon

Hi all! I’m back from my pre-WEG chill out and am excitedly counting down the 18 or so days until departure for La France. I came back from my break all bright eyed and bushy tailed, but my post-vacay energy bubble suffered a severe blow from a

OK, Great Meadows is over, all things being equal, Woody will be getting on his flight to Europe on the eventing of the twelfth of August. Phew. It seems like it should be easy to blog on the lead up to such events, but in actual fact the process its

I know there are those of you out there who believed that the Aachen dressage this year would be more interesting than WEG, but I beg to differ. I think Aachen has been a fantastic appetite-whetter for the battles to come in just over a month. By the

A friend and colleague has called me ‘hardcore’ because I got up at 4 am yesterday to watch the Dressage Nations’ Cup in Aachen. But if truth be told, I’m more insomniac than dressage obsessive. And I hope to catch as much of

Muy buenos dias! I come to you today from the loving bosom of Central America, where I have spent the last five days working with some lovely horses and their delightful riders in Guatemala and Costa Rica, making sure they have their awesomest dancin