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 time for a great article promoting the long format events at Southern Eighths Farm. I have never been to Southern Eighths, but I am a big fan of the long format especially as an educational experience. I think every rider from pros to amateurs should set a goal to do a long format at least once a year. It’s hard for me to imagine that soon there might be training listed riders who haven’t done a long format. [Area II Website]
Now for your news and notes:
In a story that warms the cockles of my cross-discipline loving heart, John and Beezie Madden purchased Artesian, a graduate of the U.S. Eventing Association Young Event Horse program as a jumper prospect. [COTH]
The Chronicle also published a report yesterday from the open forum last week at Red Hills [COTH]
As you might expect, the process continues to wind its way through the USEF. In these situations, everyone on the committees usually signs confidentiality agreements to protect the privacy of the process. As we have known for a long time, the Search Committee will make a recommendation to Eligible Athletes and the High Performance Committee. The Eligible Athletes can consider any applicants they want and they will make a recommendation to the High Performance as well, who will then make a recommendation to Mr. John Long. The USEF might or might not make anything more about the process public.
Paul Tapner is still looking for a working student on the Horse and Hound classifieds. Speaking of classifieds, I need to thank all of the readers who suggested that we add a classifieds site to EN. It took me a few months last summer to follow the requests and build the site, but I’m really glad that I finally did. SHN is a great forum for people to find great horses, jobs, saddles, and everything else. A million thanks to Leslie for the fabulous job she does running SHN for us.
Equestrian groups might be rejoinig Equine Canada [Horse Newfoundland]
James Alliston writes about life on the west coast [PRO blog]
Best of the Blogs: Sinead barely mentions being entered at Rolex (!)
And boom goes the dynamite:
That’s all for now. Check back throughout the day for all of your eventing news and ridiculous commentary. Stay tuned and go eventing.
