Swimming hole?
Or water jump? This made me laugh!
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Proceeds of photos sales to benefit True Prospect fire victims
Nico Morgan, the well-known equine photographer, has offered to donate the proceeds from the sale or licensing of any of the images he took of Boyd and Neville at Burghley last week to the funds for the fire victims. You can see his amazing images here. In fact, flip through his galleries of Burghley and […]
Read MoreJump along with Hawley Bennett-Awad on Gin & Juice
If you don’t think Burghley is in your future, here’s your chance to experience the course courtesy of Hawley Bennett-Awad’s helmet cam. This video gave me a real appreciation for the fences (some are huge and some are very narrow) and for the amount of galloping on that course. Only the truly fit need apply. […]
Read More“Henny” to stay with Peter Atkins
Eventing Nation reports that Peter Atkins has been able to buy Linda Martin’s share of HJ Hampton before the court appointed auction could take place. You can almost hear the collective big sigh of relief from all the “Henny” supporters out there who have been hoping that he would be able to stay with Peter […]
Read MoreRide along with Mark Todd
I love the proliferation of helmet cams because they let me pretend to jump xc courses that I can’t even dream about! Here you can ride along with Mark Todd at the Saumur CCI2*, held in France two weekends ago. Mark was riding Hezabrook and they finished 34th.
Read MoreMark Todd wins fourth Badminton
Mark Todd won his first Badminton Horse Trials 31 years ago. Yesterday, he won his fourth, riding NZB Land Vision in the 10-year old gelding’s first 4* event. At age 55, Todd is the oldest winner of the event. Todd, who retired from eventing in 2000 after the Sydney Olympics, returned to the sport in […]
Read MoreHorses don’t understand “potential”
For the past few days I’ve been watching another owner/rider dispute unfold on COTH. Certainly after reading about this experience, the Henny dispute and the issues over La Biosthetique Sam, I’d sure as heck think twice about buying a horse for a rider to compete. The comments on the most recent threads repeat several common […]
Read MoreThe debate over the safety of eventing continues
On November 15th Dressage Olympian Robert Dover wrote in his blog, Dover’s World, The problem for me is that I am having greater and greater difficulty as I get older, finding a way to legitimize Eventing while horses which have no choice in the matter end up getting killed for the sake of sport. His […]
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