RIP Ballincoola
We have sad news from England as Ballincoola, the 2005 Burghley champion with William Fox-Pitt, suffered a heart attack while warming up in the show jumping of an event year Bury St. Edmunds on Wednesday.
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Belated Happy Birthday Mark!
Very few people are cool enough to get an entire ‘happy birthday’ post from Eventing Nation, but Team USA’s fearless leader certainly qualifies. Uncle Mark turned 62 on Tuesday and celebrated a very happy birthday
...» Read More!Complete World Equestrian Games TV and Online Broadcast Schedule
Not everyone can make it to the WEGs and for those of you who can’t, there will be many television and online viewing opportunities. Universal sports has released a TV broadcast schedule that includes 8.5 hours of
...» Read More!Chelan Kozak–What’s happening right now…
By Chelan: I’m over a 3,000 miles from Ocala, Florida where the Canadian training sessions are, over 2,500 miles from Georgia where the Americans are and over 2,000 miles from the Kentucky Horse Park where
...» Read More!Need to Know Wednesday
Let’s play guess your Canadian team member Show jumping super star Aaron Vale has joined the US training sessions in Georgia to help coach the Wednesday show jumping lessons. Buck worked with Aaron a lot
...» Read More!It’s All About Everyone
A lot of my inspiration for writing these posts comes from the Chronicle of the Horse forums. Once you scroll past the “at my horse show last week, I had this incident with this TD
...» Read More!Avert your eyes
One of the interesting things about writing for Eventing Nation is that on any given day I get emailed links to many interesting and sometimes strange things, such as this picture of Doug Payne jumping
...» Read More!JER–Like Steeplechase On A Bike: Adventures in Cyclocross part 2
Even without flags, insanity in the middle Link: Part 1 By JER–Part 2 “Did you say ‘psychocross’?” This is the response I get when I invite a friend to come along with me to
...» Read More!What happened to Kirby Park Irish Jester
Australian Megan Jones tells the story of why she had to withdraw Jester from the Australian eventing team: “My plan was to send Jester with a hay bale bag with bale of wet hay so the
...» Read More!Extreme Makeover: Tipperary Liadhnan’s Show Jumping
One of the most interesting and exciting stories this year in eventing has been the resurrection of Tipperary Liadhnan’s show jumping. We all know the story of Kim and “Paddy’s” disastrous show jumping rounds this
...» Read More!Tuesday Video Break
The amazing Buzzterbrown has made a great video showing all the WEG horses he has recorded, including all of the Canadian and US horses. Buzzterbrown tells me that he’s making an updated version of the
...» Read More!Smells Like Team Spirit
I’ve never been much for “team spirit.” I wasn’t on any school teams, mostly because I was at the barn all the time. In college I watched more games at home because I preferred to
...» Read More!Keep running Henny
I have three pieces of good news. First and most importantly, Peter Atkins and HJ Hampton were added to the Australian team Monday night and are now set to ride at the World Equestrian Games.
...» Read More!JER — Like Steeplechase On A Bike: Adventures in Cyclocross
“Never go into battle without your weapons.” By JER–Part 1 It was an idea straight out of the rubbish pile. Whose rubbish it was, I have no idea, but while trolling the soul-crushing
...» Read More!Monday Video Break
Two funny Australians + video crew + complete access to the WEGs = brilliant Honestly, I think that anyone with an Australian accent makes non-Australians smile but these guys are simply fantastic. Depending on how
...» Read More!Sad news from Marlborough HT
I received several reports and inquiries Sunday evening that a horse had struggled after completing the XC at the Marlborough Horse Trials in Maryland on Sunday. I just got word from Marlborough’s organizer that Shadowfax, a
...» Read More!Steph Rhodes-Bosch Road to the WEGs, Chapter 6
Team Canada Trunks Links: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5 Hey Eventing Nation! I’m writing from day 7 at Camp Canada down here in Ocala, Florida. We have been having a
...» Read More!Relaxing at US Training Sessions
The mornings are all about work, but there’s only one way to spend those hot Georgia weekend afternoons. Go swimming.
...» Read More!Leah Lang-Gluscic, chapter 5
When we first announced Leah as a guest blogger and explained that she was quitting her job at a high-profile Investment Banking firm in exchange for trying to make a career as a professional rider,
...» Read More!A View From My Horse
Although it’s a few days late, this week’s “A View From My Horse” entry pays great tribute to September 11th, and is a very cool story as well, so I didn’t want to pass it
...» Read More!Boyd Martin’s US Training Camp Update
Boyd has generously agreed to keep Eventing Nation updated on the US Team training sessions leading up the the WEGs. For more information on Boyd’s experience or just to say ‘thanks’ to Boyd for being
...» Read More!Sad Saturday News and Notes
We have bad news from Italy today, as 22 year-old Austrian event rider Sebastian Steiner died while riding at the Montelibretti International Horse Trials. They fell at the 11th fence Saturday in Milan. The horse
...» Read More!Sport Horse Nation Recap
Sport Horse Nation is rolling right along, and we’re starting to hear about successful sales. “Thanks for all your efforts getting ________’s ad ‘out there.’ He did not sell as a result, but we did
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