Have you ever seen a car used as an obstacle on a show jumping course? Me neither. But if you use your imagination and snap photos from precisely the right angle, anything is possible. Check
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After the swell of Sunday show jumping excitement at a three-day event, things tend to quiet down quickly. Riders load up their horses and head home, spectators head out and vendors pack it in, leaving
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This is how we do it after cross @eventingnationpic.twitter.com/5gvWWPghaP — Jealoushe (@Jealoushe) June 8, 2014 The long weekend of competition is over, and ironically while I have searched high and low for all pictures
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As we reported yesterday, Copper Meadows hosted FEI divisions for the first time this weekend, and both the Western Underground CIC2* and the State Farm CIC* were rousing successes. In the CIC2*, Cori Davis was
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Kinda selfish, Lauren. But she couldn’t help herself, I’m sure — Lauren’s a terrific competitor and she was riding a couple of star-in-the-making horses today in Meadowbrook’s Scarlett and Landmark’s Monte Carlo. Lauren and Buck
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Watching Be Mine tackle a fence or two on the cross-country course yesterday, I thought the horse looked really nice. Watching him jump an entire show jumping course today, however, my reaction was something closer
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Everybody knows that anything can happen on Sunday morning at a three-day event and Bromont is no exception, although I’m predicting that today’s leaders will be hanging on for dear life. A few thoughts as
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The leaderboard for the CCI3* saw another shakeup today after show jumping completed, and it was Aoife Clark and Fenyas Elegance that ended up on top when all was said and done. Overnight leader Izzy
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There were a few tense moments at the inspection this morning — we were all holding our breath when Mackenna Shea’s Landioso, currently in 3rd place in the CCI3*, came out looking a bit stiff.
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The sun was shining and the birds were singing and the horses were doing what they were supposed to today at Bromont. A few parting thoughts: – It was fantastic to see so many horses
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When Lynn Symnasky sent out a casting call for “one black zip up left tall boot” on Facebook a couple weeks ago, her intentions were clear: She WAS riding at Bromont. Even if her boots
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I’m not going to lie: I’m pretty bummed that I can’t title this post “California Chrome’s Social Media Roundup” or “I JUST WITNESSED A TRIPLE CROWN WINNER AND OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TODAY”. The folks
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Hearts are breaking all over the world today as yet another Triple Crown hopeful succumbed to the demands of a five week campaign trail culminating on the Belmont Park track today. Instead, it was a
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Double-clear rounds are gold here at Bromont and Lauren Kieffer knows how to produce them. When dressage leader Ashley Adams and Da Vinci Code had a stop early on the course, the window of opportunity
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Copper Meadows, in Ramona, Ca., is hosting their spring event with their first time holding FEI divisions this weekend. The event has proven to be quite a success with a good amount of entries across
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Several riders came to Canada this week looking for a bit of redemption and many of them found it today on Derek di Grazia’s big and bold but fair course. One of them was Erin
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The cross country course, as with the show jumping, proved to be sorely influential today as the weather failed to hold up and the footing deteriorated. The organizers did the best they could, removing fences
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Be Mine might be a relative newcomer to the sport of eventing but you wouldn’t know it from his performance on the CCI1* course today. As we mentioned yesterday, the 8-year-old Rheinland Pfalzsaar gelding looks to
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The leaderboard in the CIC3* at Bramham saw quite a bit of shake up after show jumping this morning. It appears that perhaps the footing was an issue, and the PRO Twitter account reports horses
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Cross-country morning has dawned early and bright here at Bromont International. It’s going to be a beautiful day: a shade on the warm side with a high of 78 with a 10% chance of rain.
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For a North American event Bromont is a little off the grid. If you’ve noticed an absence of social media updates from your favorite riders this weekend, it’s because they can’t use the Internet on
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“Big,” “galloping,” “bold” and “fair” are the adjectives that keep surfacing when I ask riders what they think about this year’s CCI3* Bromont track. There’s a lot to do out there but the questions all
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Buck’s having an easy weekend here at Bromont — a vacation, really — with only three horses in the CCI1*, one in the CCI* and a handful of students. What are you going to do
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