Someone who likes to call herself Dressage Diva (and who apparently is not familiar with my well-publicized hatred of anonymous bitching) thinks I am talking out of school regarding WW III in Welly World. Perhaps through the last several weeks’

Greetings from the warm and breezy World of Welly, where I am once again enjoying the colourful antics of the local population. Yesterday was the municipal election, and what a doozie it was. You think the republican primaries are a slag-fest? Those

Sing it! Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf FEI, the FEI the FEI, Who’s afraid of the FEI, the FEI, yes I! It’s a bit ridiculous when you think about it. Journalists should not be afraid of the international organizations that admini

I am absolutely over-the-moon excited to report that this brand new blog has already attracted the attention of the FEI. Yes, it’s because I wrote something that they feel compelled to correct, but still. I don’t mind standing corrected,

You could say it’s a very old fashioned concept, first espoused in the form of ‘woe to the conquered’ in the works of Homer in the eighth century B.C.; but the belief that whoever is in power is the one who dictates the law is appar

Today Jordan McDonald died. Today Jordan McDonald died after a rotational fall on cross country leaving behind, amongst others, a wife, Shandiss, who had been his sweetheart since the time they were teens. I met Jordan over 10 years ago in Florida, w

This past weekend was sad and black for the eventing world. We are all numb with the loss of Jordan McDonald and Benjamin Winter. Our thoughts and hearts are with their families and friends. We had our own personal pain to deal with on Saturday when

I wish to express my deepest condolences to the family and many friends of Jordan McDonald. If the horse community in Canada is a small one, where there is never more than a degree or two of separation among us, the eventing community is like a nucle

What a first day of work for Eva Havaris! Her shadow had barely darkened the doorstep before she faced her first order of business: to provide a quote for what is one of the biggest announcements in Canadian equestrian sport history.  Before her cha

If you are from the native English-speaking world, you don’t need to be told about D-Day, particularly not this week.  And if you happen to have tickets for the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy this August, you will have ample opportuni