Thursday’s News and Views from RevitaVet

Congratulations friends–if you are reading this, you are over half way through the last week of 2010.  We have a busy next few days ahead on Eventing Nation, including Abbie’s first post with her own author account, an article from a renown course designer, several posts from Annie, and of course something from yours truly if we can find room.  Coren is off the schedule this week because she is searching for a husband visiting her sister in Europe.  So, all of our North American readers can be jealous that she will experience the New Year a few hours before us.  And, to extend these musings one step farther, assuming that she celebrates the next New Year’s Eve in the US, Coren will have 5 more hours in 2011 than any of us.  Spend those extra 5 hours wisely Coren.  Now for some quick news and notes:

–Let’s start with a big thanks to Leslie at the USEA for giving EN a shout-out in her overview of her favorite eventing websites.  Click on the link to show our friends at the USEA some love and a spike in traffic.  We always appreciate links, and it’s a sure way to get a shout-out on EN.  You can love us or hate us–it’s a policy of ours to link to both posts that praise us and those that criticize us with equal regularity.

*3D3W has posted part 2 of their interview with our good friend Doug Payne

–Riding horses on the beach may be fun, but a man drowned riding through the surf in South Africa.  The man was riding with a group in ankle deep water near Capetown when he fell from the horse and was lost in the surf.  I can only imagine that he must have been injured when he fell, but reports are unclear on the details.  In addition to avoiding falling off, as lec pointed out in her post Wednesday night, you always want to be careful with your horse’s tendons in soft footing like beach sand.  Truth be told, my horses are never going near a beach.  For better or worse, I keep my rides structured within a set training program that never really includes “fun beach ride”.  As eventing programs become more and more structured, we are going to lose that element of carefree fun work that I think is an important part of developing an event horse’s mind.

–The Yorkshire Post contrasts the seasons of fellow Yorkshire riders Nicola Wilson and Oliver Townend by basically saying Nicola had a great year by winning team gold and Oliver had a bad year because he crashed at Rolex.  I’m not sure Marmaduke would agree with this analysis, but Marmaduke is probably too busy getting ready for New Year’s Eve to pay attention to the Yorkshire Post.

–A summit will be held next week in Las Vegas to try to find a solution to the growing number of ‘unwanted’ horse herds roaming in the Western US.  The summit will involve representatives from Northwest tribes, federal agencies and conservation groups, as well as wildlife advocates, and horse professionals.  The Bureau of Land Management estimates that nearly 12,000 more horses are on its lands than the range can support.  Of course, the issue of horse slaughter will be brought up and cause a big dispute.  I’m completely opposed to horse slaughter, but I have to admit that I don’t exactly have any great ideas for dealing with 12,000 surplus wild horses.  Any ideas Eventing Nation? 

That’s it for now.  Stay tuned today as we count down the last few EN posts until the New Year and bring you anything and everything of note around the eventing world.  See you soon…

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