The Horse Council BC Awards Gala was held on March 8, 2014 to celebrate the athletes, coaches, horses, volunteers and all around amazing people

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-sloped, two-year-long hand-over of the reins from Torchy to him. He commended Jump […]

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 Germany with Chiara 222, and Belgian riders Gregory Wathelet with Sea […]

Canadian eventing athletes commenced the international season last weekend competing at the CIC3*/2*/1* Red Hills International Horse Trials held in Tallahassee, FL. USA. Heavy rains on Thursday’s opening day may have caused some competitors to tweak their riding style but that wasn’t enough to stop 2012 Olympian Jessica Phoenix of Cannington, ON, from taking the […]

Canadian eventer Dasha Ivandaeva takes the plunge, with authority

Starting two-year-olds

Organizers of the 2015 Pan American Games have announced that Will O’Wind Farm in Mono, Ontario will serve as the cross-country venue for the Games on July 18, 2015. “More than 50 of the top riders from the Americas and Caribbean are coming to the Town of Mono for this exciting event,” said Saäd Rafi, […]

Happy 2014, Year of the Horse, everyone! I have all kinds of expectations and predictions for the coming year that I’m preparing to share with you,  but I would be doing 2013 a disservice if I didn’t give it a proper send off with my annual ‘best, worst, and ugliest’ list. So here we go […]

Dressage Canada is pleased to announce the 2013 recipients of the Dressage Canada Bursary Program. Each year, the Dressage Canada Development Committee provides one senior and two junior dressage riders with a bursary of $2,500 to help encourage the accomplishment of personal goals as they relate to the sport of dressage. The 2013 senior recipient […]

All the big boys are back in full work, which means the barn is running full out in the horrible weather we are having. I cannot wait until all the competition horses have headed south and can be assured of working every day. We have given up ‘a day off for the horses,’ since we […]