Good Monday morning! This week’s surprise post comes all the way from Merrie Olde Englande, where the intrepid Pippa Cuckson has weighed in on the FEI’s latest WTF move, the signing on of Longines and the unceremonious dumping of Rolex. (Pippa and I share this characteristic: we both gravitate toward controversy like moths to a […]
My crystal ball repairman If you are wondering why it’s taking me so long to get my 2013 predictions up here, it’s because I just got my crystal ball back from the repair shop. I was getting nothing from it when I sat down and gazed at its opaque surface last week, so I assumed […]
Looks like that crystal ball needs some repairs after all. 2013 is already turning out to be a sizzler, and it’s only January 25th. Here are a few items I’ve been storing in my inbox to share with you this week: 1. The FEI has yanked Guadalajara’s 2015 World Cup Final hosting gig: in an […]
If you didn’t see my post from last week, you might want to take a wander back there before reading today’s, which is an update to the story I wrote about last week, a story that is getting weirder by the minute. First of all, I’d like to give my weekly ‘intrepid reporter’ kudos to […]
Well that was worth setting the alarm for six on a Sunday morning. What a final over there in sunny Barcelona (that’s Barthelona you know). Killer, killer course it was today. Only four clears (plus one with a single time fault) out of 32 starters makes it one of the toughest I can remember having […]
You know how roller coasters start with that agonizingly slow climb, followed by immense, gut-dropping acceleration? One might be tempted to see a parallel with what’s going on in the world of the FEI Prez and her husband, Sheikh Mohammed. Here is a two-day old story from The Guardian regarding an illegal drug seizure of staggering […]
Today, dear readers, a very special treat. I am delighted to share with you the ruminations of journalist extraordinaire, Pippa Cuckson. I’m even more delighted to read her post and realize that she and I are on exactly the same page when it comes to the momentous events of last week in Switzerland. Sometimes, as […]
Yes, it’s more than a month since the FEI GA began to fade in our rear view mirrors, but I still can’t get the thing out of my mind. Here are a few lingering aftertastes that no amount of brain Listerine seems to be able to dissolve: 1. Horse Welfare in Endurance – oh not […]
What an ecologically responsible organization we have! Rather than just tossing past presidents into the trash like used diapers, EC recycles them! Though for some reason CEOs, which actually cost money to train and employ, are given the Huggies treatment faster than you can say ‘potty train’. Way to solve the downward spiral of a […]
When the editor kindly offered me a guest blog about the FEI endurance conference in Lausanne on February 9, I decided to wait a day or so. I had already written five different news reports about it and wanted to crystallise some thoughts. I also wanted a few hours off to play my viola and […]
