The past few days have, justifiably, been all about the Fair Hill CCI2* and CCI3*. Here are a few headlines that have fallen through the cracks but deserve recognition.
The "other" competition at FHI, and no, I am not talking about the dog agility, was the YEH East Coast Champtionship, with Kim Keeton and Accolade winning the 4yo division, and Matt Flynn and BreakThrough topping the 5yo compeition. Read more here.
Bettina Hoy's amazing horse Ringwood Cockatoo was retired at Boekelo. Ringwood Cockatoo was probably the best event horse on the planet for several years and was a technicality away from winning double-gold at the Athens Olympics. Click here for some video of Ringwood Cockatoo.
The London 2012 equestrian symbols have been released:
A top notch new training facility is being built in NZ by Frances Snead. Ms. Snead owns horses for Donna Smith (who worked with OCET before moving back to NZ in 2008), and other top NZ riders. All the horses whose names begin with "Clifton," you may have heard of some of them, come from Ms. Snead's program, Clifton Eventers. They want to win international events and they are willing to shell out the cash to do just that.
The Senate is investigating horse welfare and slaughterhouses, click here.
It looks like Red Hills is back on track for 2010. It will be interesting to see WEG hopefuls deal with the challenging course, which I think is second toughest US course in the Spring, after Kentucky.
If I missed anything important, please leave a comment. Thanks for reading.
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