One of these days, I’ll have to make the trek to Richland. I’ve put it off for years now, because I’ve just been imagining the ridiculously long drive up to Michigan from Virginia. However, in
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Yesterday I jumped Nyls for the first time in a very long time, as he had an absurd situation with his feet this summer that kept him out of work, and then getting him back
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When in need your friends will always be there. In the case when you have friends the like of Boyd Martin, Dom and Jimmie Schramm, and Ryan Wood, helping out is as simple as showing
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We’re sending tons of EN love to Mackenna Shea and her 13-year-old gelding Landioso who had colic surgery early yesterday morning. After showing signs of colic on Saturday, Mackenna took ‘Landi’ to San Luis Rey
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When I was a kid, in my pre-Eventing days, I spent more than a few dreary winter days daydreaming about competing at Spruce Meadows or Thunderbird in Canada. Sure, I could have gone to Indio
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A third place finish at Aachen for Team USA! How exciting. I am especially impressed with this outing as it seemed to come together very quickly. There are plenty of times where my friends and
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It’s cross country day at Aachen! It’s been super annoying that dressage and cross country weren’t available to watch on a live stream, but the good news is we can finally watch something. Cross country
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Allison Springer announced yesterday via her Facebook account that her barn recently experienced a big shift with Copycat Chloe leaving for a new career with a young rider. “I’m excited to announce the sale of
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Polly Gilbert sent us the above photo of Erin Renfroe’s horse De Cordova, or Andy, getting some beauty sleep while his “employees” set his studs for his upcoming Intermediate cross country run at GMHA. It’s
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I must admit, I had one of those “You know you’re a horse person when…” moments yesterday. I heard back from the mechanic about my car and just about choked when I heard what it
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We all know the frustration of seeing your horse shuffle in from turn-out missing a shoe the morning of a show. Your brain kicks in to overdrive processing things, attempting to rationalize and explain away what you
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Holy bananas, you guys. Yesterday I saw on the Facebook group “OTTB Connect” that some guy was cleaning out his late uncle’s estate and found Secretariat’s training bridle packed away in some box. He remembers that
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We just keep getting emailed amazing photos this week! This little gem was captured by eventer Michelle Weeks’ boyfriend while he was practicing with a new lens on cross country. During his photo shoot at
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The best part of this photo is, it was taken 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts on the beautiful island of Nantucket. It is an often occurrence that views like this are found while out for
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While many of us had visions of cross country schooling and perfect grid work dancing in our heads this weekend, four-star event rider and world #2 ranked endurance rider Hilda Donahue was climbing mountains (quite
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There’s something about a gorgeous expanse of green dotted with barns that just makes my heart sing. Of course, out here in California we are mostly yellow and have been for some time, but a
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Last night was loads of fun. Team Dragonfire and friends gathered at Melissa Votaw’s house for the Bada-Bing-Bada-Blenheim fundraiser. It truly was a wonderful event. It was nice to catch up with everyone after they
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I was so relieved to see yesterday that Dromolin, owned by Amy and Hailey Kates, was found in Millbrook after escaping from his stall and being lost in the wilderness for almost 24 hours. I
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I’m a little bit in agony that I’m not at Millbrook this year, as it’s definitely one of my favorite events. From my house it is about 8 and a half hours, which makes it
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Hold on tight as we are set for another busy weekend ahead with Millbrook Horse Trials in upstate New York. Many professionals are putting the finishing touches on their mounts and getting in their final
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Another busy event weekend is in the books, and by the time you read this I will hopefully have made it to my 5:45 a.m. flight. Also known as way too early. With an expletive
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My Facebook feed is FULL of pictures like these and I LOVE IT. If you can’t be there, then the next best thing is to spend an evening scrolling for what seems like an eternity,
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The F5 key on my keyboard has been taking some heavy abuse since Thursday while I attempt to keep tabs on all of my friends at Rebecca Farm. I’ve been madly refreshing scores and clicking through
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