It’s Super Bowl weekend, which means the smack talking has been in full force on social media. We’re guessing much of our eventing family is rooting for the Eagles this weekend, so we’ll let Boyd Martin and his kiddos sing us to Sunday…
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News & Reading
🐎 Get some help solidifying your rides through bending lines and related distances from top show jumper Georgina Bloomberg. Together with her longtime trainer, Jimmy Doyle, Georgina walks us through a simple exercise that can help train responsiveness and stability here.
💻 We here at EN have embraced using AI — but not for creative work. The line may exist in different places for everyone, but while we’ve found AI to be supremely useful for streamlining our work, we also agree with this writeup from photography Shelley Paulson on the effect of AI-generated images and how they can adversely affect the industry. Read the piece here.
👀 Dr. Sara Gould is an attending physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and one author of a scientific paper analyzing the benefits and risks of using protective vests titled “Airbag Vests in Equestrian Sports: Is Use Associated with Harm?”. Dr Gould sat down with The Plaid Horse for a Q&A about the research and what it tells us. Read the interview here.
Sponsor Corner: Stable View
Entries are OPEN for the March Eventing Academy at Stable View (March 7-9)! This year, keeping with a new theme plan for each Eventing Academy, the March edition will feature a Spring theme. View more and enter here.
Video Break
We love this story about Tom McEwen, don’t miss it!
