St. Patrick’s Day Derby at Willow Run
The Equiventures St. Patrick’s Day Jumping Derby was held at Willow Run today, on a day that for some represents an excuse to drink terrible heavy beer and for others to remember one of the
...» Read More!Monthly Archives: March 2011
Working Student Diaries, part 13
This is part 13 of Jenny’s adventure as a working student and EN guest blogger. Jenny has ambitiously decided to spend the next year as a working student in Lexington, Kentucky. In this post, Jenny’s
...» Read More!VIDEO: Bromont Love
It’s video break time on Eventing Nation. Today we have a cool promotional video from Canada’s Bromont 3-Day in June. The video was sent to us by Boyd Martin and Peter Barry. If there was
...» Read More!Bostons Angel, you beauty!
Congratulations to Bostons Angel who was a winner at the legendary Cheltenham Festival yesterday. Thanks to the Daily Telegraph for the picture, courtesy of PA Owned by my cousin Elder Scouller and bred by his
...» Read More!Long Format’s Thursday News and Notes
Greetings Eventing Nation. I plan to spend this morning enjoying the last few hours before my bracket gets busted. For the second straight day in a row we return to the Area II website, this
...» Read More!Who-hoo’s there? (groan!)
It is a sad fact of modern day life that despite email, texts, phones, Ipad 2’s, (!) etc etc, it seems we still can’t find enough time to spend with our close friends, even those that
...» Read More!An organizer’s perspective, part 1
I have written this countless times before, but it’s worth repeating again: a big part of positive change is understanding everyone’s perspective. Eventing has an incredible number of important role players and we need to
...» Read More!Mark Todd is Entered at Rolex
Wiki Commons The Rolex entry list has grown to 22 names and the higgest recent addition is Mark Todd and Major Milestone. Mark Todd and Major Milestone finished 11th at Burghley last year so they
...» Read More!Aiken Training Session Times
Mark Phillips and the USEF are back in Aiken this week for the latest round of training session at Three Runs Plantation. Here’s a quick look at the schedules as published on the USEF Facebook
...» Read More!That post event feeling
My body and my brain is confused. Sunday started with a very early wake up alarm. On Saturday night I was sitting with EN John and some of the wonderful Canadian riders at the Red
...» Read More!March Madness’ Wednesday News and Notes from Horse Quencher
It’s that time of year again. Kids stop going to school, people stop working, and commerce in the US generally grinds to a halt as everyone turns their attention to the single elimination college basketball
...» Read More!Good News for Parker
It’s a really fun thing to be able to report good news, and I am happy to report that Madison Park had a bone scan today that went well and all seems good. The bone
...» Read More!Your Quick Afternoon Notes
It has been a quiet Tuesday around Eventing Nation but here are a few links to stories we are keeping our eyes on: Jackie of Regarding Horses went behind the scenes with Horses in the
...» Read More!South African Eventing’s Long List
We don’t spend a lot of time writing about South African eventing here on Eventing Nation and it is truly our loss. Our friends at the southern tip of the world have taken the lead
...» Read More!Video Break: Red Hills Postcard
It’s hard to find an event around the US that gets more support from the local city than Red Hills. Whether it was the police officers volunteering on their Saturday to drive the spectator shuttles,
...» Read More!Tuesday Morning Reader from Pennfield
The stiletto ‘clackers’ are now ‘clompers’ Good Morning Eventing Nation! Can you believe we are already halfway through March? It always seems that the winter off-season months drag on forever and then spring, summer, and
...» Read More!Review–The Harwich Eventer Bridle from SmartPak
We all know a good bridle when we see one, but what specific qualities make an eventing bridle good or bad? This simple question left me puzzled for a few minutes when SmartPak, recently asked
...» Read More!It aint over till…
Well, yes, I suppose Red Hills IS over, but wait, there’s more! I managed to catch a few quick words with Course Designer Hugh Lochore’s dad Hamish yesterday, and have only managed to get to
...» Read More!USEA Show Jumping Recap Video
From Josh Walker at the USEA: Go eventing.
...» Read More!Cross Country? Try Skijoring
With all the excitement flying around recently about coach selection, I decided it was time for a post about everyone’s favorite thing aka the most ridiculous topics google skills can dig up (this is a
...» Read More!Monday Video Break: Helmet Cam
The helmet cam is from Doug Payne and Running Order, who were 6th at the Red Hills CIC3*. From watching them all weekend, they were one of the most impressive pairs and I can tell
...» Read More!Japan’s Monday News and Notes from Ecogold
I was speaking with Buck Sunday afternoon and I asked him what he thought of his weekend. He made the point that even though he had a tough day Saturday, it wasn’t that bad of
...» Read More!Red Hills CIC 3* Show-Jumping
I think we’ve all heard by now that Alison Springer and Arthur clinched the win by jumping clear this afternoon. They were popular winners, and to top off a dream weekend for Alison she also
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