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• Posted Thursday Reader from Devoucoux
  Description: Did you guys hear about the horse that got stuck in the giant tire? No, seriously. Rowdy the horse from West Virginia somehow managed to get himself inside a gigantic tire and completely stuck. Firefighters had to be called to the scene and extract this idiotic strange horse from his rubbery cage. Horse Nation obviously snatched ...
• Posted Four U.S. Riders in Top 30 of HSBC FEI International Rankings
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  Buck & Reggie this year at The Fork CIC3* Now that we are about halfway through the Eventing season for 2013 I thought it would be fun to look at the updated FEI HSBC International Rankings, and see how the US is stacking up against the rest of the world. Unsurprisingly, Andrew Nicholson is still firmly ...

• Posted Wednesday Video from Kentucky Performance Products: Working Equitation Speed Test
  Description: Haven't heard of the Working Equitation Speed Test? Yeah, me neither until a few days ago. Turns out this is a whole subset of equestrian endeavors that I didn't even know existed. Apparently, Working Equitation is a discipline intended to preserve and develop equestrian skills related to handling and sorting cattle. The principles of WE have been ...
• Posted Thursday News & Notes from Devoucoux
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  Lizzie Snow and Coal Creek at jogs yesterday (photo by Jenni Autry) Good morning, Eventing Nation! Today begins the first day of the last 3-day of the spring season, Bromont! Two divisions will begin Dressage tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. promptly, and we have both Samantha and Jenni on the scene covering every possible angle, and ...

• Posted Vote for Will Faudree: USOC Male Athlete of the Month!
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  Will Faudree and Pawlow at Rolex this spring Will Faudree has had an excellent spring, starting his season by quietly winning both the Pine Top Advanced and Southern Pines Advanced with Andromaque, finishing in the top three almost every time out with Pawlow to culminate in a nice 6th place finish with Ernie at Rolex, ...

• Posted Wednesday Video from Kentucky Performance Products: Road to Bromont Part II
  Description: Team Wallace is well known for their videography skills, both with the popular videos of Elisa training her mustangs, and the infamous clip of Jon Holling streaking after winning Bromont CCI3* last year. Jon is heading back up to Canada again this year, but with a different mount. Do you think he can pull off ...
• Posted The Importance of Down Time
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  A field of nose-length grass to gallop through? Yes, please. Now that the weather has finally turned into disgusting, hot, humid, bug-filled summer days, I've been doing a lot of hacking. I probably do more hacking than most people in general, as I have access to over 2,000 acres of paths and coops and gates ...

• Posted Saturday Video from Horse Nation: Prancercise Your Heart Out
  Description: Horse Nation has done it again....and found the next viral video for horse people. This time, it's an absurd exercise routine called "Prancercizing". This is real life, folks. From HN:

  Prancercise, “a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse’s gait,” was invented in 1989 but never caught on–until NOW.

  I’ll leave ...

• Posted Thursday Reader from Devoucoux
  Description: Happy Thursday Eventing Nation! Today, I will spend all day outside riding about 8 horses, and the forecast says...average temperatures of 95. This translates to several things: drinking so much water that I physically cannot fit any more in my belly, looking like a tomato with a helmet for at least six hours straight, participating ...
• Posted Wednesday Video Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Texas Ollie
  Description: Every once in a while, I run across a video on the internet that I have not yet remotely explored and it turns out to be absolutely fabulous. Today, I'm bringing you a charming little old man named Texas Ollie, and he is a wonderful horse trainer. His horses have a great array of tricks ...