After our fairly decent off-farm Novice CT debut in November, I was feeling good about moving up to a Novice three-phase for 2016. Bright and early on January 1st, we headed over to Go With
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In case you’re new to the story, I’m dealing with a multitude of #saddefitissues and working to find a solution for myself and my horses. You can read the first two installments in the saddle
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The University of South Carolina-Columbia decided to grab the reins and add another eventing club in the southeast region. Riders at USC acknowledge the importance of riding programs for future and current students. The creation
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After a mountain of research, and a lot of issues with my horses (you can read the backstory here), saddle fitting day was upon us. My local County Saddlery representative, Allison Meyer, made the trek
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Some people who are going through a midlife crisis splurge on a sportscar, take up skydiving or have an affair with the mailman. Since I am a 10-year-old horse crazy girl trapped in a 34-year-old
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Poplar Place Farm and I have recently become frienemies. I love the facility itself, head trainer Werner Geven and his wife Marjolein are amazing people, and Kris the Sugar Cube Lady is wonderful. However, I’ve
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It is 5 am. The sound of your alarm will go off. You think to yourself, “there is no way it is already time to get my carcass out of bed.” Your tiny human is
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Republished from EN’s sister site, Jumper Nation. When horrible things happen in our world, it can be hard to keep the simple, beautiful life I have in the horse world in perspective. While I think
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Many Area I riders spent the weekend of June 11-12 competing at Valinor Farm H.T. in Plymouth, Massachusetts, helping the event celebrate its 10 year anniversary! Split between two days, riders competed in divisions from
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JJ has been on stall rest since he came up lame at our last event. We had the vet out to check him several times. She X-rayed, she ultrasounded, and she gave an unconfirmed diagnosis:
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Kaitlin Hartford, a 16-year-old eventer from Callahan, Florida, is blogging about her journey to competing in this year’s Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover with her OTTB Family Foundation, better known as Sven. This past week has been a hectic one,
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June 4 and 5th brought many Area I riders up to beautiful Woodstock, Vermont, for the Green Mountain Horse Association (GMHA) June Horse Trials. This event is an absolute favorite with us because of the
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Kaitlin Harford, a 16-year-old eventer from Callahan, Florida, is blogging about her journey to competing in this year’s Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover with her OTTB Family Foundation, better known as Sven. We came back from the Rocking Horse schooling
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Between my three horses, I’m working opposite ends of the spectrum. Garth and Deszi are prepping to move up to Intermediate soon, and Monty just completed his first beginner novice at GMHA. Given “Big Kid’s”
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Dr. Joyce Harman of Harmany Equine Clinic wraps up her four-part series on equine Lyme disease with a discussion of holistic treatment options. If you’ve read Parts I-III (catch up by clicking the #LYME DISEASE
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What a weekend at the Virginia Horse Center. Garth and Deszi were entered in the CCI*, as a stepping stone to qualifications to greater goals later this season. But, when it comes to horses, plans often
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Driving a car is one thing, but driving a horse trailer, loaded with precious animals, is on a completely different level. It’s terrifying, and feels much, much different than driving a car. You have to
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Kaitlin Harford, a 16-year-old eventer from Callahan, Florida, is blogging about her journey to competing in this year’s Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover with her OTTB Family Foundation, better known as Sven. Click here, here and here to read her first three blogs
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By now you’ve learned what Lyme disease is in Part I and how it’s diagnosed in Part II, but now it’s time to learn about treatment options. Dr. Joyce Harman’s Lyme disease series continues. Treatment
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What is a Course Designer? What role do they play? In all levels of equestrian sport that involves obstacles, there is somebody, somewhere that says, “OK, put that jump over there, and this jump
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My journey to becoming a show secretary started with a push, and is growing into getting offers beyond my dreams. Firstly, I give the upmost credit to all event show teams. The people BEHIND the
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With Michael Jung’s recent Grand Slam win, and the Olympics coming up right around the corner, the eventing world is incredibly busy. The world’s top riders are in the spotlight, highlighting their journeys to the
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All dogs must be on a leash.#DogsofEN A photo posted by Marsha Spencer (@laces47) on Apr 22, 2016 at 1:36pm PDT The things that you will need to teach your dog not to pull on
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