My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
Well, actually I haven’t since the day when I caught the end of my crop in my necklace chain going over a jump and sling-shotted my favorite amethyst pendant into a huge patch of poison ivy. I had never experienced poison ivy until that event but I guess the massive dose of it that I […]
Read MoreFor the past two weeks the weather has been sweltering. Tonight, it was merely hot. I thought I might sneak in a ride after dinner. The problem wasn’t the heat, it was the deer flies. They started to swarm around my car as I left my driveway. The horses were standing in the barn when […]
Read MoreAlthough I rode many horses in my teens and early 20s, I never owned any of them. My first horse was one that I bought from the New Canaan Mounted Troop. His name was “One Too Many” or Bogie. The story was that he had been the one too many horse in his original owner’s barn. […]
Read MoreAfter Oliver Townend’s fall at Rolex, his inflatable vest was widely attributed for saving him from more serious injury. Now it seems like his helmet should be getting the credit for protecting him. According to an article on the U.K. website Horsemart: Oliver sent the Champion Ventair helmet that he was wearing at Kentucky back […]
Read MoreMy mother was scanning old photos and she sent me this one. It’s from my very first event ever, which makes it about 1983-84. I was riding a horse that I half leased for a couple of years, a 5 year old Hannovarian/TB cross called Dudley. The venue was Pleasant Hollow Farms in Coopersburg, Penn. […]
Read MoreDidn’t make it to Kentucky this year? No problem. Thanks to SmartPak you can come along on the course walk. http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=121461437864462 And if you want to watch the XC day from the comfort of your computer (given the weather report, maybe a good idea), you can watch streaming video on http://www.universalsports.com/. The cost for watching […]
Read MoreOne of the coolest things on the Internet is the wealth of educational materials. I’m not going to be heading to England any time soon to ride with (or audit) a training session with show jumping great Geoff Billington, but I don’t have to. Horse and Country TV brings it right to my laptop. I […]
Read MoreLike most good ideas, it turns out that someone has already created a top hat helmet, laying the groundwork for a commercial product. In an article on Equisearch, Jennifer Tilley writes of Megan Rust, a dressage rider who wanted to wear a top hat that also protected her head. As someone who had already suffered […]
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