Monday News and Notes
Courtesy of Samantha Clark It’s rainy and chilly today at the Kentucky Horse Park but the good news for the eventers is that the weather is expected to improve as the week progresses. Monday is
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Samantha Clark’s Opening Weekend Report
Samantha Clark, who has been a dear friend to Eventing Nation from the very beginning, was kind enough to write about her wonderful opening weekend at the WEGs. Check out Samantha’s 2010 Radio Show from
...» Read More!USEF Boekelo CCI3* Grants
Wiki Commons In some non-WEG news, four US riders are scheduled to travel to the Boekelo CCI3* in the Netherlands from October 14th to the 17th with funding from a USEF training grant. The Boekelo
...» Read More!Endurance Recap
Hello EN fans, It’s been a very long day for Endurance horses, riders, crew, and volunteers. I spent eleven hours today as part of the veterinary team, serving as horse transport at Loop 3 and
...» Read More!Endurance and Reining Reader
In terms of horse sports, reining and endurance couldn’t be more different. Nonetheless, both sports made headlines at the Kentucky Horse Park on Sunday as the hometown US reining team won gold and the US
...» Read More!Steph Rhodes-Bosch: Sunday update from the WEGs
Steph Rhodes-Bosch continues her posts as an Eventing Nation guest blogger today with an update from Team Canada’s first few days at the Kentucky Horse Park. I won’t say that I was certain Steph would
...» Read More!Hamish and Dave find riders/models at the KHP
WEGs on NBC from 12pm to 1:30pm ET
The first hour and a half of World Equestrian Games coverage on NBC runs from 12pm to 1:30pm ET today. Be sure to tune in and tell your friends to watch it. As a rule
...» Read More!A View From My Horse
This week’s A View From My Horse entry is from one of our younger readers. For her age, she is certainly learning a lot about the realities and heartbreak of having horses! Thanks to Hannah
...» Read More!Late Night WEG Reader
Giddy-up I watched part of the WEG opening ceremonies and I was impressed by the diversity of the demonstrations, but, like several EN commenters, I thought there should have been more emphasis on the horses.
...» Read More!Watch WEG Opening Ceremonies Free Online
After Some early afternooln issues, the USEF Network website seems to be back online. Click here and scroll down to the “Featured Media” tab on the right to watch the WEG opening ceremonies for free online
...» Read More!Boyd Martin’s WEG Arrival Update
I want to take a moment to thank Boyd for providing us with so many great updates throughout the WEG buildup and the competition itself. Boyd came to me with the idea of doing these
...» Read More!Opening day at the World Equestrian Games
The World Equestrian Games are officially underway with reining all day on Saturday and then the opening ceremonies Saturday night. With over 16 straight days of wall to wall horse competition, just looking at the
...» Read More!Bad news from Poplar Place
We have just gotten word that Hilda Donahue’s 17hh gelding Extravagance was put down during the CIC3* cross-country at the Poplar Place HT in Georgia. Extravagance reportedly jumped through the main Poplar water complex and
...» Read More!Video Saturday – WEG, duh
Well next Saturday, the EN gang will be bringing you all kinds of awesome WEG ridiculousness, so my goal this week is to get you pumped! Aren’t you psyched?!?! Sing it with me….”to the greatest
...» Read More!Captain Canuck is excited for late night news and notes
A few weeks ago Eventing Nation started getting reports from the Canadian training sessions about a mysterious ‘Captain Canada’ aka ‘Captain Canuck.’ Initially we thought that Captain Canuck was referring to Team Canada’s fearless leader,
...» Read More!Afternoon Update
Word is that the US team gallop on Friday morning went well. The mandatory jog following the gallop was held early Friday afternoon–all of the horses reportedly looked good and the US squad remains the
...» Read More!FAQ: WEG
FAQ: FEI WEG With WEG opening ceremonies mere hours away, it’s time to answer a few common questions you may have about what could be the largest single sporting event in the
...» Read More!Hot Move-In Friday at the KHP
Team Brazil loves the heat The weather in Kentucky has been breaking heat records this week, and Friday’s predicted high is 91 degrees. From what I hear, most of the teams are spending most of
...» Read More!Ireland’s Elizabeth Power and Kilpatrick River Withdraw from WEGs
Liz Power’s horse Kilpatrick River sustained an injury during exercise on Monday, just one day after arriving at the Kentucky Horse Park. The Irish vets treated the horse to the best of their abilities, but
...» Read More!Team Canada’s Beauties
Leading up to the WEGs, we have added a late night post to our normal Eventing Nation repertoire of three posts per day and the theme thus far has been fun photos. Tonight’s photo might
...» Read More!Working Students for Dummies
I am very excited to introduce Coren as the latest member to join the Eventing Nation team. I met Coren several months ago and I quickly realized that Coren is one of three people on
...» Read More!Boyd Martin’s Thursday US Training Camp Update
Update: After getting a couple of email inquiries, I called Boyd to ask him what “yum-cha” meant and he said it was a ‘Boyd-ism’ meaning good food. Thanks for writing this Boyd and thank you
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