Hello everyone! I hope that this holiday season is filled with good food, good drink, and good times for you, your family and friends, and especially the animals. I’ll be doing my annual best and worst of the year wrap up just after New Year

The last weekend before Christmas is coming up. Am I ready? No, of course not. But we did have a great Christmas party last weekend, so the Christmas spirit is up and dancing. The weather of course was appalling. Our annual bash, expecting 60 people

Have you heard about EC’s Special Reverse Advent Calendar? When you open a door, instead of receiving a little gift you find that something has been taken away. Yesterday we opened the cute little cardboard double doors with elves on them and f

Last week I received a couple of press releases from the FEI that, even by their standards, were a bit on the strange side.  The oddest was probably the one with the headline that announced that a new ‘FEI TV on the Go’ app had been laun

It seems that as soon as eventing season is over, it’s clinic season here at O’Hanlon Eventing. Selena and I have always done lots of clinics in the winter. Selena started being asked to give clinics when she was 14. She has been giving t

At the end of the competitive year, it’s all “after Fair Hill” – we will get that done “after Fair Hill”. However, just BEFORE Fair Hill we finally finished all our fencing. Thanks to Matt Kidney, Dick Bayly, Mike

How did we go from Fair Hill to the end of November? I have a lot of catching up to do. First of all, Fair Hill itself. It wasn’t our best ever three day. Solo retired on course after getting het up (excited) and not staying straight enough for

Since the FEI never hesitates to correct me when I make a factual error on my blogs, I thought I would return the favour, and offer them a free geography lesson in today’s post. Dear FEI: Kentucky is not a city. It’s a state. In your pres

As my good friend and regular blog reader Jenn W. said to someone last week, if there was anything worse than letting me into the Olympic Qualification meetings at the FEI GA last week, it was NOT letting me into the meeting.  You might have seen my

As many of you know, I am on my way to the pristine, EU-resistant soil of Switzerland to attend the 2013 FEI General Assembly this week. If there is any single session of the three day talk-fest of especial relevance to Canada and to people in other