Tuesday News and Notes

Today’s news and notes are brought to you by people in China with way too much time and money on their hands.  Please contain your amazement that our friends in China have embraced yet another bizarre trend, but dyeing dogs like wild animals is all the rage in China these days.  I suppose we can justify posting the photos as Halloween costume ideas.

Looking at the week ahead in eventing, the three major items of note in the US are the Chattahoochee CCI2*, looking ahead to the Galway CCI3*, and the departure of Remington and Anthony Patch for France.  The horses are scheduled to leave on Wednesday, and there are signs that the French strikes are waning.  The latest word is that all systems are go for the trip. 

In sad news, two US teenagers died in recreational riding incidents over the weekend.

Best of the blogs: Boyd is ready to leave for France

Totilas has arrived in Germany where he will take a vacation until his new rider is announced

Equine Canada has *proposed making helmets mandatory in the dressage warmup.  Is eventing next?

John Vancy at the Eventing Safety website has written a great article on the Mim NewEra Clip System frangible safety technology.  These jumps use a breakable clip to make rails and tables collapsible and present an alternative to frangible pins and logs.  We also appreciate the shout out from Eventing Safety last week.

Mims in action: 

In a bit of an odd media moment, the Chronicle has just posted a news article that the Pan Ams are being run as a two-star next year.  I say “odd” because, as the article says, “the decision was made at the FEI’s 2008 General Assembly.”  The news is two years old and riders have been aware of this and planning accordingly since, well…2008.  In other news, Rolex will in fact be run as a CCI4* this spring.

In international news, the world mourns the death of Paul the octopus on Tuesday.  Paul is world famous partially for his correct soccer World Cup predictions, but mostly for his EN short list predictions.  Paul died of natural causes.

Go eventing.

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