The Swiss Federation asked me to share their official statement of today regarding Endurance-Gate with my readers, and I have obliged by posting it over on my other blog Low-Down.  Click here to go to the Swiss statement

This morning in an email conversation with a colleague I referred to something the FEI was potentially going to do as crazy.  I stopped just short of using one of my favourite vulgarisms to add colour to that adjective – chiroptera feces  

Many moons ago, when I was but a gal of 17 and fell star struck in awe of this fabulous dressage rider I knew who I just thought was the mutts’ nuts and had everything and anything a person could ever want for – a fabulous barn, one of the best g

In an unprecedented act of innovation, Equine Canada has announced this morning a proposal to suspend the hunt for a new CEO. Instead, the considerable resources of hiring, training, retaining and firing a Chief Executive will be redirected to the cr

As I was saying in my last blog, trying to be Superwoman is tough. Over the next few weeks, I will share with you some examples of how I try, but fall short, every day. This week, I’ll talk about the challenge of being supermom. Nothing changed the

Last week I interviewed Canadian Show Jumping Team chef Mark Laskin (look for the interview in the May issue of Horse Sport). He’s the one who filled the very large shoes Torchy Millar left behind after London. Mark talked about the very gently

I hope everyone caught the results and photos that were posted on the Horse-Canada News page during the CHI Al Shaqab during the show last week. In the final Grand Prix, worth 650,000 euros, the top three placings were held by Ludger Beerbaum of Germ

This post has nothing at all to do with horses, but Qatar is such an overwhelming place and there is certainly a lot of other cool stuff to talk about. I promise there will be horses next time. Tuesday morning we were taken to a falcon farm about an

Horse Sport editor Susan Stafford-Pooley is boarding a flight to Qatar as I post the first of several installments that Susan has kindly agreed to share as she has a Very Big Adventure in Doha this coming week.  Enjoy! I was recently gazing at the

Last week, in a post-hockey-gold-coital state of euphoria, I suggested that we needed to get equestrian sports into the Winter Olympics so that Canada can do better. Well, apparently our jumpers don’t need snow and ice to kick the competition o