The Sunday Jog-Up: Tips from a Groom
Do you ever stare in awe at the sleek shiny horses, the glistening brass, perfect braids, and dazzling white marks at a CCI trot up? Do you ever wonder how they get that way? (LOTS
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Triple Crown will have to wait another year
Lookin At Lucky and jockey Martin Garcia won the Preakness for trainer Bob Baffert. First Dud finished second, Jackson Bend third. Super Saver wasn’t so lucky. Props to commenter The859 for picking Lookin At Lucky
...» Read More!Comeback Saturday at Chattahoochee
Link: Chattahoohee Live Scores The story so far in Georgia are the comeback performances. Canadian team hopeful Jessica Phoenix is returning from having a baby right before The Fork. They tried to time the birth
...» Read More!Don’t forget
NBC will air its Rolex broadcast today from 3:00-4:30pm EST, immediately preceding coverage of the Preakness. I’m not sure who I like to win the Preakness, but I’m betting on Cool Mountain to win in
...» Read More!Visionaire’s five-star Friday evening notes
Visionaire is riding at Chattahoochee Hills this weekend and passed along a few photos from the competition to share with Eventing Nation. The XC schedule was reworked because of high temperatures predicted for Saturday–the advanced
...» Read More!WEG Short List
The USEF has released a partial short list for WEG selection with 11 pairs listed. Additional horse/rider combinations may be named to the Short List after the final selection trial held at Luhmuhlen CCI4* June
...» Read More!What’s hot and what’s not in the UK
lec, a regular EN contributor and UK resident has kindly sent in some thoughts on eventing trends in the UK. I had no idea what a couple of these things were so I included some
...» Read More!Mandatory reading: events this weekend
Eventing Nation has the coolest fans ever. This screenshot was submitted by clb, and she references my This Doesn’t Sound Like Golfing At All post. —- Meanwhile, the spring is turning to summer across Eventing Nation despite
...» Read More!Living a Charmed Life: 10 Questions with Jim Wofford
James C. Wofford, or as many of us know him, Jimmy, has represented the US at the Olympics three times, winning two team silver and one individual silver medal. He is a member of the
...» Read More!Lower-Level Event Rider Profile
It’s Reader Appreciation month, so we’re here to bring you more LL Rider Profiles! These have been a big hit, and I love meeting our EN audience. I’m still sorting through many of them, but if you would like to
...» Read More!Riding a fine line
In the the latest developments of the FEI’s attempt to police hyperflexion, the FEI has sent out a press release trying to clarify acceptable neck positions in the warmup that are definied in the new
...» Read More!More friends make us happy
May is indeed reader appreciation month here on Eventing Nation, and I want to say thanks to all of our incredible readers. Eventing Nation has the most intelligent, informed, involved, and insider audience anywhere online—if
...» Read More!NWEC event report and much more from Chelan
Well folks, Chelan Kozak has sent me another email, and against my better judgement with pleasure I’m going to post it. Somebody go find JER. But I have learned! This week I made a couple of
...» Read More!Reader Appreciation Month
Courtesy of HC First off, I want to say a huge “YOU’RE WELCOME!!” to all the thank-you’s we have received after the Rolex/Derby/Badminton bonanza. Your kind words really keep us going, and it’s nice to
...» Read More!Your take: making eventing fans
-For the next 5 minutes, lets pretend we want to. After getting home from Jersey, one vet emailed me and suggested that we ask Eventing Nation about how to improve public interest in eventing. I
...» Read More!Jersey report
Perspective is not what I was looking for when I went into the start box at Jersey Fresh on Saturday. I was shooting for the clear round. I was determined to reach my goal and
...» Read More!It’s official
We have known this for a while, but the USEF just put out a press release that the mandatory outing will be held in conjunction with the AEC’s at Chattahoochee, September 9-12. “All Short Listed
...» Read More!Are You Smarter Than A Pony Clubber?
Visionaire and I were recently discussing funny Pony Club stories and the oddball rules that usually caused them when she decided that this would make a great blog, and so Are You Smarter Than A
...» Read More!Ringwood Magister is excited for Monday afternoon Jersey notes
(1) With only two rider falls and no major injuries, the Jersey courses all rode safely. To learn from this success, the question to ask is why was this weekend so safe? Here are a
...» Read More!How did your event go this weekend?
WIth back-to-back-to-back weekends of Rolex, Badminton, and Jersey, we have had a chance to experience some of the biggest events of the year. Yet, much of Eventing Nation was competing this weekend at other events
...» Read More!CCI3*-Tiana Coudray wins big
CCI3* Results 1. Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister +4 45.6 2. Phillip Dutton and Inmidair +0 58.0 3. Colin Davidson and Draco +8 64.2 4. Sharon White and Rafferty’s Rules +8 65.8 5. Kate Brown
...» Read More!CIC3*-Phillip and TruLuck WIN
Phillip accepting his ribbon at Jersey CIC3* Results 1. Phillip Dutton and TruLuck +7 65.4 2. Peter Barry and Kilrodan Abbott +10 73.4 3. Ashley Kehoe and Mazetto +5 77.6 4. Jennifer Simmons and JB’s
...» Read More!CCI2*-Jennie Brannigan and Cambalda WIN
Jennie and Cambalda just after finishing their winning ride Final CCI2* Results: 1. Jennie Brannigan and Cambalda +0 44.3 2. Doug Payne and Happy Valley +0 50.0 3. Joelle Baskerville and Malibu +0 56.0 4.
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