As usual, those 5 hours I spent sleeping were busy ones in the eventing community around the world.  Here are a few quick links to stories we are keeping an eye on today in Eventing

Two weeks ago Samantha Clark reported on Eventing Nation and her blog that Blyth Tait is moving to England and making a comeback.  Today, Blyth made his comeback official with an Equestrian NZ press release

Like my fashion sense, this picture has nothing to do with anything but I like it I’d like to wish a big EN ‘get well soon’ to Jennie Brannigan, who broke her collar bone on

Welcome to March Eventing Nation. I’m not as disciplined as Annie, or perhaps I am just more nocturnal, but it seems like I keep getting started on the news and notes later and later at

Three of Paul Tapner’s horses miraculously survived with only scratches when a lorry drove into the back of his horsebox Sunday morning.  Paul’s horsebox had broken down on the side of the road on the

Good Morning Eventing Nation! John usually handles the Monday morning post but this week he has bestowed the honor to me. I wasn’t at Pine Top over the weekend, but from what I’ve heard it

The schedule has been released for this week’s round of Aiken training sessions.  As usual, the training sessions will be held at Three Runs Plantation and auditing is open to the public for free.  From

Pictured: Udonna and Marilyn, Photocred: the amazing Kate Samuels, who is a Dveloping B List rider After completing dressage and show jumping on Saturday, the Pine Top preliminary and intermediate competitors will head out on

Have you ever wondered what the plural form of ‘Lynx’ is? Good Morning Eventing Nation! The advanced competitors at Pine Top will be moving out of center stage as today marks the start of the

The Badminton blog has a great post from Dominic about the Mark Todd’s road to Badminton.  The good news for all of us Mark Todd fans is that he has two fabulous horses on the

The only USEA event this weekend is a big one–Pine Top in Thompson, GA.  Pine Top combines good footing and the perfect date to attract almost all of the top east coast horses to the

This morning, PRO held a conference call in response to Monday’s post about Sinead’s blog entry.  The meeting was held at 8:30am.  Here is the email from yesterday afternoon announcing the conference call from Samantha

Good Morning Eventing Nation! I wish I could add ‘Win a Free iPad’ to this morning’s title like the title of John’s post yesterday, but I guess we can only give away Apple technology every

The decision was made recently to retire one of the best event horses in the world.  Phillip wrote about Connaught’s retirement on his first Rolex blog, and I recently spoke with with him about his

Steve Jobs’ homepage is Eventing Nation February on Eventing Nation is now officially named ‘Reader Appreciation Month.’  In the past few weeks we have given away a free Point Two, $330 in Ecogold saddle pads,

A UK newspaper ‘The Independent’ has posted a report from an inquest at the Cheltanham Coroner’s Court regarding a rotational fall that resulted in the death of 15 year-old Jade South in October of 2008. 

Good morning Eventing Nation and happy Presidents Day.  For our US readers, Presidents Day was originally known as ‘Washington’s Birthday’ to honor the birthday of our first president.  However, as with anything our government attempts,

As Annie linked to this morning, the USEF High Performance Facebook page has published the schedules for the Aiken training sessions Monday and Tuesday of this week at Three Runs Plantation.  This series is the

The schedule for the London Olympics next year has now been released. However, if you have deep pockets and fancy attending as the owner of a Three Day Event Horse with a real shot at

Good Morning Eventing Nation! John’s tolerance for central Florida is about two days maximum, and with the conclusion of the Advanced division at Rocking Horse yesterday, he has ‘peaced out’ this morning and resumed life

To get your Saturday started with some good news, Jan Byyny is leading the Open Prelim A division at Paradise Horse Trials after the dressage on Friday.  I said it a few weeks ago when

As a quick note, new Australian Performance Director Prue Barrett chats with our friends at the Horse Radio Network this week.  Rolex Director of Competition, Christina Gray, also is on the show as well… [Listen

Mark coaching Clark Montgomery on Thursday–another caption contest anyone? Good Morning Eventing Nation! Here your top 3 reasons to be happy this morning: 1. There are three great events going on this weekend, along with