Just hangin’ out on a spring day. Photo by Anne Chapin.
Nothing I love more than hanging out riding a three-year-old bareback on a spring day. This lovely chap will be four later this year, so I’ve just been helping him out once or twice a week this winter, which is a great way to slowly work on building your relationship with a horse without overwhelming them mentally or physically. He already had a great start, and he has an excellent brain, so my work was set up for me, but it’s still fun to play around with a trusting relationship on a young horse!
U.S. Weekend Preview
Chattahoochee Hills H.T. (Fairburn, GA) [Website] [Entries] [Volunteer] [Scoring]
Galway Downs International H.T (Temecula, CA) [Website] [Entries] [Ride Times] [Volunteer][Scoring]
Jumping Branch Farm H.T (Aiken, SC) [Website] [Entries] [Volunteer] [Scoring]
Morven Park Spring H.T. (Leesburg, VA) [Website] [Entries] [Volunteer] [Scoring]
The Event at TerraNova (Myakka City, FL) [Website] [Entries] [Ride Times] [Volunteer] [Scoring]
News From Around the Globe:
A group of 20 event riders got a glimpse of Andreas Dibowski’s training philosophy recently at Tryon. Andreas recently visited the Tryon International Equestrian Center during the American Trakehner Association Convention to teach show-jumping and cross-country lessons to horses and riders from Beginner Novice to the Advanced level. The lessons included coursework utilizing combinations, related distances and turning exercises. You might not be surprised to hear that his favorite English word is “forward”. [Andreas Dibowski’s Training Scheme]
You might have heard the name Stormy Daniels recently in the news, but did you know she’s an Eventer too? Girl, she started with a weird little $500 off-track-thoroughbred mare that was entirely unsuitable too! Nobody in her family rode, but she was obsessed with horses from a very young age, and now enjoys owning eight horses, and competing at Training level. [Behind the Storm]
Best of Blogs: Jan Byyny Says You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks After All
Tamie Smith had nothing if not a banner 2022 year. From horse trials in her home state of California where she prepared herself and her horses to take on the best in the nation and around the world to five-star events overseas where she represented the United States on some of eventing’s biggest stages, Tamie Smith had a remarkable season and finished 2022 as the Bates USEA Lady Rider of the Year for the second year in a row. Domestically in 2022, Tamie competed in 16 events, starting and ending her season on her home turf at Galway Downs in Temecula, California, something that she believes is significant to her development and identity as an eventer. [Tamie Takes Leading Lady Rider of the Year Again]
Sponsor Corner: The Stable View $60,000 FEI 4* Horse Trials are a week away! Get ready to enjoy a weekend of top-notch eventing with this throwback video to Phillip Dutton and Z’s 2019 winning ride through the 4*-S water complex at Stable View.
Phillip Dutton and Z are your CCI 4* -S winners! Through the FITS water complex!
Posted by Stable View on Saturday, September 28, 2019
