Team Wallace: Road to Bromont
From the Team Wallace Blog: June 4, Part II Rick Wallace, Jon Holling, and Leslie Law finally arrive in Canada! Rick sports some “Mountie Hair.” Leslie waves like the Englishman that he is. The
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Wednesday News & Notes from Horse Quencher
Karen O’Connor and Biko, owned by Richard and Vita Thompson. Image via the USEA Hall of Fame. Hearts are heavy this morning with the loss of two venerable horsemen: Richard Thompson and Jim Ligon both
...» Read More!Video: Boyd Martin chats about selection, NBC, and Luhmuhlen
Evening is a wonderful time at events, with the sun setting on the horizon after a long day, horses grazing on the lush green grass, and maybe a beer or two being cracked in the
...» Read More!Tuesday at Bromont
The helmet visors that were handed out in the rider packets are all the rage here at Bromont, especially when used without a helmet, as demonstrated by Shanon Kinsley. I strongly suggest that all of
...» Read More!Belmont Backside: Legends, Tales
Belmont, Seattle Slew, ’77 You might look in Barn 60, where six stalls are filled with Bill Turner-trained horses, the most accomplished of which, Pernice, broke his maiden in his seventeenth start last year. Or
...» Read More!Farewell Dick Thompson
Mr. Thompson and Karen O’Connor looking on as his horse, St. Barths, won at The Fork in 2010 The beautiful day here at Bromont is darkened with the sad news that longtime eventing supporter Richard
...» Read More!Macchiato Retires
Macchiato and William Fox-Pitt on their way to 6th place at Burghley, 2010. Image via Fox-Pitt Eventing Facebook. Fox-Pitt Eventing today announced the retirement of 14-year-old veteran Macchiato, victor of the 2007 Bramham and Blair
...» Read More!Waredaca HT
From Helen Casteel: Hi EN! We had a picture perfect weekend for Waredaca’s June 2-3 event in Laytonsville, MD. The DC/MD/VA area got pounded by heavy t-storms Friday and we had about
...» Read More!Team Wallace: The drive continues
From the Team Wallace Blog: June 4, A.M. Rick, Jon, and Leslie enter New York during the early hours of the morning. Although rainy, the scenery is beautiful. The three talk about the possibility
...» Read More!Olivia Culpo’s Tuesday News and Notes from Pennfield
Olivia rocking the Dubarry winter headband. Good morning Eventing Nation! Olivia Culpo is Miss USA 2012. She’s also a Smartpak model! She appeared in their Save the Date Black Friday marketing campaign. She’s a sophomore
...» Read More!Welcome to Bromont
Good evening from beautiful Bromont! It was an absolute delight to be greeted with smiles and true Canadian hospitality upon our arrival at the venue for the 1976 Montreal Olympic equestrian events. After a drive
...» Read More!Safety Flags Rule Proposal
At Jersey CCI***, Will Coleman’s horse Cool Connection suffered a horrific accident when he became impaled by the flag at a narrow fence. In the interest of improving safety, the USEF Eventing Technical Committee has
...» Read More!Video: Colorado Show Jumping
Video courtesy of the USEA. Sunshine, show jumping, blue-ribbon interviews: Here’s the USEA’s day four wrap-up of the Colorado Three-day and HT. Thanks as always to the USEA for their awesome video coverage. Go eventing.
...» Read More!It was wet at GMHA
EN reader Alice competed in her first preliminary horse trials this past weekend at GMHA, where she was the only double-clear stadium round in her division. Congrats Alice! ——————– From Alice: Hi guys! It was
...» Read More!Rick Wallace, Leslie Law, and Jon Holling travel to Bromont
The invasion of Canada continues. As our fearless EN leader John attempts to smuggle himself across the border in somebody’s tack trunk, Rick Wallace & Crew are also in the midst of their journey. As
...» Read More!Volunteering at the Colorado Horse Park
Volunteers are the lifeblood of this sport– our fun weekends simply wouldn’t happen without them! Today we are proud to share a story from Emily, who jump judged at the Colorado Horse Park this past
...» Read More!Meg Kep: Leaving the country
From Meg: This week is a big one for a lot of people. Currently eventers all over the country are packing up and fleeing towards the Canadian border. SHE is no different. Although our SHE
...» Read More!Bro/Bel’s Monday News & Notes from Success Equestrian
BROMONT? BELMONT? Some kind of conspiracy, or what? Some kind of awesome week ahead, or what? Three days? Five days? Olympic ambitions, Triple Crown? It’s all getting a little overwhelming. And it’s only Monday!
...» Read More!Remembering Icarus
This is the third and final EN tribute post to the three Pollard Eventing horses lost in the tragic May trailer accident. We are happy to reports that one of the horses from the accident,
...» Read More!Video: Mike Ryan and Dromgurrihy Blue CCI3* Tattersalls XC
[via Donegan Ryan Eventing] On Thursday we brought Mike Ryan’s course walk from the Tattersalls CCI3* in Ireland and today you can see how it rode for him aboard Dromgurrihy Blue in tha above video.
...» Read More!Video: Cross-Country from Colorado
[Videos courtesy of the USEA] [Colorado Live Scores] Check out this great recap of Saturday from Colorado including an interview with Martha McDowell. Many thanks to the USEA team including Josh Walker and Frankie Thieriot
...» Read More!Bromont Eve’s Sunday Links from Dubarry
A photo from last year’s CCI***. See the 2011 course jump-by-jump here. Good morning EN! It’s that time of year again: we can start the final countdown to Bromont today. Riders are already traveling from
...» Read More!Colleen Rutledge: Back to normal
The once-Badminton-bound Colleen Rutledge and Shiraz have re-routed to target Luhmuhlen in two weeks. Today Colleen checks in and guess what, it’s STILL raining! Be sure to check out Colleen’s website to support their trip in
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