From Heather Reimer of GermanEventing.de: All the riders were in good form today having had a great time at the team party last night where France won the Magnum bottle of Veuve Cliquot for their

Neville Bardos smells the crisp English air Getting to a three-day, particularly a four-star like Burghley, is the process of dodging the thousands of things that can can go wrong and derail your quest while

Welcome to the start of one of the busiest weeks of the year.  Neville and Exponential literally just landed in England, the rest of the Burghley horses are shipping out over the next couple days,

The last training fence at Great Vista On the home front, it is a busy Sunday of eventing as 6 USEA horse trials are finishing today.  In Washington, the Caber Farms intermediate cross-country caused some

Photo credit, with permission Jan Sutherland/FEI No I am not having some flashbacks to Sydney, nor am I ignoring the current event in France, Haras du Pin. Follow my logic for a second. The FEI

The start of the novice and beginner novice courses at Great Vista You might call this weekend the calm before the storm here in the US with Richland, then Burghley, and then the AECs over

  Photo via Maddie and Debbie Kanda What a fun weekend! Otter Creek really upped their competitor party by adding karaoke this year. Of course, there was table dancing as well. Go partying. It was

Photo by Jennifer Kan Bardsley via Bec Braitling What do you think USEA president Brian Sabo is thinking as Bec Braitling, Andrea Baxter, and Tamie Smith poultice TD Andy Bowles’ car? We try not to

Check out helmet cam video of Hawley and Five O’Clock Somewhere in the open intermediate at The Event at Woodside in California on Saturday.  Hawley and Five O’Clock Somewhere are currently short listed for the

Well hello! Otter Creek cross country once again was amazing! If you haven’t been, or even if you have, plan for rain. Without fail it comes in the afternoon. 🙂 Mark Warner has his eye

From now until the end of November we won’t have a light weekend of eventing here in the US.  We have an action packed weekend with several events that are close to my heart, so

The GMHA novice and training three-days wrapped up today in Vermont.  The long format has found a great and hopefully permanent home at novice and training level.  The long format isn’t just a history lesson,

A ‘view’ from the beautiful South Woodstock, VT countryside I will never get used to cross-country on a Wednesday.  It’s common to have one day events on weekdays in England, and even necessary considering the

Well, hello there Eventing Nation! You may have been wondering where I’ve been as of late. Coren gave it away, I was doing anything but preparing for my Pony Club B rating and learning how

First of all, I want to apologise for all the things I didn’t get to this weekend – there were some requests, and some of my own stuff that I tried to do, and I

Jessica Mongeau was kind enough to send us a few photos from Saturday at Millbrook including photos of the EN jump.  Jessica told me that her main motivation was to watch Peter and Henny, but

Last year when I rode at Millbrook I had a stupid fall at the coffin, but if memory serves every other advanced competitor finished the course.  Today the course caused more problems despite the quality

Prada moves into the lead in Advanced Section 1 Thank heavens for William Fox-Pitt, and not only because he, along with Rodney Powell,  managed to break the Antipodean stranglehold on the Gatcombe leaderboard in both

I bumped into Tiana, who did a nice dressage test on Ringwood Magister for 35.4, leaving her in equal 14th place after the dressage, despite an error of course.  See what you think, but I

Thank goodness Madison Park’s connections have finally found him a quality jockey in Riley Carter Red Hills is facing shut down if they don’t find $100,000 in new funding, Denny Emerson is coming home, Samantha

With the Eagles’ recent off season moves, this year’s bet between Jon Holling and Buck might go differentlyBuck Davidson and Carl Segal’s Ballynoecastle RM stepped their game up, as we like to say here on

Although today, Friday, is a quieter day here at The Festival of British Eventing, it’s already all systems go. Mark Todd has just taken the four year old Burghley Young Event Horse Qualifier on the

If Neville’s recovery from fighting to his life after the True Prospect fire just two months ago to kicking ass at the Millbrook horse trials today doesn’t bring a smile to your face then I