Monthly Archives: June 2011
Sharon White — From Bromont to Burghley
In a startling twist of fate, the USEF released what I think is a very reasonable Summer Training List earlier today. My next post will be about a pig I saw flying around and I
...» Read More!Eventing Profile of the Week
Name: Britney Hensman Age: 23 Location: Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. Relationship to Eventing : Novice Rider, hoping to upgrade to Training this year! Favorite Eventing moment/story?: I never really thrived to go far in eventing until
...» Read More!Thoughts on the new training lists
Phillip has several Olympic prospect horses, but this isn’t one of them US high performance lists fascinate me. Not only because I love Team USA and want to see us dominate, but also because I
...» Read More!Could eventing possibly be going mainstream?
Hardly! Although I have been feeling rather spoilt lately with Horse and Country TV’s fantastic coverage of Badminton playing on a loop on HRTV, only interrupted by live Wimbledon coverage, and this morning….news of Alex
...» Read More!New Summer US High Performance Lists
The USEF has just released its new summer High Performance and Developing Rider training lists. As usual, the riders will get to work with Mark Phillips at training sessions at competitions throughout the summer. They
...» Read More!Could eventing possibly be going mainstream?
Hardly! Although I have been feeling rather spoilt lately with Horse and Country TV’s fantastic coverage of Badminton playing on a loop on HRTV, only interrupted by live Wimbledon coverage, and this morning….news of Alex
...» Read More!Thursday Morning News from Devoucoux
Good Morning Eventing Nation! I hope your morning is off to a grand start and that you are enjoying this second day of summer. The weather forecast (for most of the East Coast anyway) is
...» Read More!Sponsor Spotlight: Omega Alpha
Here’s a quick look back to Bromont, where we had a chance to chat with the CCI2* winner Rebecca Howard about Omega Alpha, who sponsors her as well as Eventing Nation. Omega Alpha’s business is
...» Read More!Luhmuhlen Video Relapse
Luhmuhlen has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take a quick look back at Germany’s 4* on a lazy Wednesday afternoon around Eventing Nation. In addition to the videos below, Nat and
...» Read More!Welcome to Eventing
A few weeks ago, John had the brilliant idea to start a column dedicated to the newcomers in our sport, human or equine. The idea for the series is to share a story of your
...» Read More!An update on the recovering horses
From Boyd: The Best View in the World–Between Neville’s EarsBoyd has posted an update about the horses recovering from the True Prospect Fire on his blog. As he puts it, there is good news and
...» Read More!The Chinchilla’s Wednesday News and Notes from Horse Quencher
So I have been thinking about the EN Chinchillas a lot lately. And like I have mentioned in past posts, I have a pretty curious curiosity. So I decided to do a little research. These
...» Read More!Kyle, Jessie, Rebecca, and Hawley are headed to Burghley
Team Canada is enjoy the benefits of catching the attention of Canadian high performance funding after their team silver at the World Equestrian Games last year. Canada is giving 4 riders “generous” (more than half
...» Read More!Bromont and an Update
A very cute puppy we found on XC, I think her name was Suki Hello there EN–In a bit of a twist from my normal posts, this is a recap
...» Read More!Sally O’Connor: The Guadalajara Experience
Today, I’m honored to introduce our most recent addition to the guest blogger ranks, Sally O’Connor. If you consider yourself an eventing fan and haven’t heard of her, then you probably aren’t much of an
...» Read More!Two Brothers
Jake and Jester are 11 and 12 year old Percheron/Thoroughbreds that have been members of the Lexington Mounted Police Force since 2002. By a stroke of luck they were on duty at my local park
...» Read More!Justin Bieber’s Tuesday News and Notes from Pennfield
My sister sent me a text yesterday saying she had just downloaded the Justin Bieber movie (Never Say Never). Of course, I naturally judged her. Shortly after that text I got an email containing
...» Read More!Two Brothers
Jake and Jester are 11 and 12 year old Percheron/Thoroughbreds that have been members of the Lexington Mounted Police Force since 2002. By a stroke of luck they were on duty at my local park
...» Read More!Teach me how to dougie
When Eventing Nation first started I told myself that my life wouldn’t be complete until we posted video of Nat VC dancing. That dream comes true tonight. Nat and the US crew at Luhmuhlen broke
...» Read More!Jacky Green — Longleat CIC2* Recap
Jacky Green was recommended to me as a potential EN guest writer because she is very well connected, based in the UK, a hilarious personality, and tends to write whatever comes to her mind. Jacky
...» Read More!Hollywood at Lost Hounds HT
Kelly Sult dominated at Lost Hounds Horse Trials in Edinboro, PA this weekend. She won the open intermediate with Hollywood “Reggie” on 40.0 and finished second with her new horse, Montgomery. She also won the
...» Read More!Will Faudree — Luhmuhlen Recap
I have been thinking about it all morning and I think that Will has the best two-horse combination in US eventing right now. Even though Pawlow didn’t have the best weekend at Luhmuhlen, his record
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