The Good Witch’s Thursday News from Devoucoux
Jennifer and The Good Witch (Pooh) at Galway Downs *** in November 2011. Photo by Samantha Clark. I gotta dedicate today’s news and notes to The Good Witch. What a mare. When I read this
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Good Witch Retires
One of the best American mares in recent times, The Good Witch is finally hanging up her studs and retiring from international competition. With Jennifer Wooten-Dafoe, “Pooh” enjoyed a long, successful Advanced career spanning the
...» Read More!Getting Ready for Rolex
Rolex XC Course Designer Derek Di Grazia in his native, sunny California It’s certainly true we can never count on the weather for anything here in Kentucky, but the fact that Rolex CCI**** cross-country course
...» Read More!A cat amongst the pigeons Part 2 – Team USA
Thank you EN for engaging, in a nice way on the first part of this story, Team Canada. Lots of banter, I really appreciate it. I do want to clear up one misconception before we
...» Read More!Rolex Changed My Life
It was 1997, I was 12, I had my mom’s camera and used up seven rolls of Kodak film; I was captivated for life. I’m sure most of us remember our first trip to Rolex,
...» Read More!Leap Day’s Wednesday News and Notes from Horse Quencher
The Cottesmore Leap, photo courtesy of Nico Morgan Good Morning Eventing Nation! Welcome to Wednesday. It’s that time of the week (at least for all of those that competed over the past weekend) that you’ve
...» Read More!Check out P Dutty’s new ride at Pine Top
When Woodburn passed away last summer there was a big question in my mind as to who would emerge as Phillip Dutton’s top Olympic prospect. ESJ broke the news late last year that Jim and
...» Read More!RRTP Recap by Mary Getsey Bernier
EN would like to thank Mary Getsey Bernier for her report on the Retired Racehorse Training Project Challenge. Three trainers worked with off-track thoroughbreds for five weeks, displaying their progress at the Pennsylvania Horse Expo
...» Read More!And the Oscar goes to…
You guys are so good! Yes, it was Karen O’Connor in the driving seat, giving Nate Chambers a ride at the recent Rocking Horse Winter II Horse Trials. Nate, shown here at Galway Downs last
...» Read More!Eventing Nation Presents Rolex Cross Country Course Walks for a Just World
One of the new fences on the Rolex CCI**** cross-country course this year – want to walk it with a pro? For a good cause? (Not Leo!) We are so proud and happy to announce
...» Read More!Meet our newest guest blogger: Shannon Lilley
EN is proud to announce our most recent addition to the guest blogger stable, Shannon Lilley. With Ballingowan Pizzaz, Shannon represented the USA at the 2011 Pan Ams, helping win the team gold medal. From
...» Read More!Tuesday News from Pennfield
Traitor! Good Morning Eventing Nation! Well the EN Server face lift didn’t quite get finished last night, so we’ll just have to live with one more day of Movable Type. MT and I haven’t been
...» Read More!And the Oscar goes to…
You guys are so good! Yes, it was Karen O’Connor in the driving seat, giving Nate Chambers a ride at the recent Rocking Horse Winter II Horse Trials. Nate, shown here at Galway Downs last
...» Read More!Armageddon is coming, or EN is changing servers
I am excited to tell you that this is the last ever Eventing Nation post until the next Eventing Nation post. After months of hard work, EN will be switching servers and blogging platforms later
...» Read More!Videos from Montelibretti CCI***
Many thanks to EN tipster Marina, for sending us the link to www.horselive.it and sharing the videos of the top finishers at Montelibretti. For your enjoyment: Karin Donckers and Charizard in dressage Andrew Hoy and
...» Read More!Ronald Zabala wins Campo de Mayo CIC***
After a wonderfully generous weekend of reporting from Italy, Austin Ligon was kind enough to send us the results of Campo de Mayo CIC***, with some insightful commentary on how it plays into the individual
...» Read More!Quiz Time
I wish I’d had the foresight, or connections to have an Oscar related Quiz for you this week, but sadly the weekend, and the Awards snuck up on me so quickly we almost didn’t have
...» Read More!Hugh Lochore – Exciting Plans
As part of our “Getting Ready for Rolex” feature, I talked to Hugh Lochore last week, the cross country designer at the Red Hills International Horse Trials after his latest walk around the course with a few
...» Read More!Monday News and Notes from Success Equestrian
Greetings sports fans! It was a weekend where Ocala residents got to feel smug about their superior weather (but then remembered that they live in Ocala), Olympic tickets were booked, a pony motored around an
...» Read More!Show jumping at Montelibretti CCI***
EN would like to thank Austin Ligon for sharing his account of the CCI*** in Italy this weekend. Since I’m not even sure where Montelibretti is, and I struggled mightily trying to navigate the Italian
...» Read More!Weekend Quiz Time
I wish I’d had the foresight, or connections to have an Oscar related Quiz for you this weekend, but sadly the weekend, and the Awards snuck up on me so quickly we almost didn’t have
...» Read More!More results from this weekend
Pine Top hasn’t quite finished yet — Training cross-country scores aren’t final– but we’ll catch you up on the intermediate and preliminary results. [Full Results List] OI-1 1. Boyd Martin — Remington XXV 29.22. Will
...» Read More!Helmet cam from Ballindenisk CIC***
Many thanks to Patricia Ryan for forwarding this to us! Enjoy the video of Michael Ryan and Ballylynch Adventure as they tackle the CIC*** course at Ballindenisk. Mike and Ballylynch Adventure finished in 8th place.
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