Here are a few quick afternoon notes from the mobile EN command center on I-75 in Southern Georgia.  By mobile command center, I mean a truck parked in a McDonald’s parking lot.  Here are a

This week’s view is coming to us from the winter wonderland at Windchase Farm. Windchase is located in Purcellville, Virginia and is home to veteran event rider, Phyllis Dawson. It’s hard to say what Phyllis

Good morning Eventing Nation!  Do you usually enjoy a nice cup of Starbucks to start the day?  Personally, I can’t stand to spend $5 on a cup of anything.  As my accounting professor always told

There was some debate earlier this year about whether the Rolex featured rider blogs would be back with the changes occurring at EEI.  But, the fan favorite feature returns in 2011 with three great riders

It’s a busy Wednesday for the EN Team.  Annie is buried in schoolwork, Coren is buried in barn work, Samantha is surrounded by her kids recovering from the flu, and I am buried, as usual,

Earlier this week, a Vermont woman named Krystal Smith became the national champion of grocery bagging.   Krystal beat 21 competitors by filling three grocery bags in 38 seconds.  Best of all the event had

Tuesday was all about schedules.  We released the 2012 Olympic equestrian schedule this morning and now we have the Wednesday and Thursday Ocala training session schedules.  Most of the riders are the same from the

The schedules for the equestrian events at the London Olympics has been made public.  Eventing will be the first of the equestrian events and is held from Saturday, July 28th to Tuesday July 31st at

The Cambodian show jumping’s championship wrapped up over the weekend when Meong Sochea and his pony Benjimen won a four-rider jump-off in the ‘Grand Prix’ division.  The event was held at the Cambodian Country Club

Happy Valentine’s day from Clyde [via SD] Me posting an article after JER is the literary equivalent of Kobe passing the basketball to Ron Artest, but the show must go on here at EN I

Valentine’s Day school boxes for one EN reader’s two lucky kids [via RB] Happy Valentine’s Day Eventing Nation!  This may come as little surprise to anyone who knows me, but I don’t have a valentine

Valerie Vizcarrondo, and Groom Lara Chance scope out the Pine Top Intermediate course Good morning Eventing Nation!  If you are not eventing today, hopefully you are enjoying those Sunday Cheerios and cartoons.  If you are

Good Morning Eventing Nation, and welcome to my favorite day of the week! The competitors at both the Ocala Horse Trials and Pine Top Horse Trials are assembling bright and early this morning for what

As a quick news item, according to Eventing Ireland and an EN tipster, Eric Smiley of Ireland has been named the Belgian eventing coach.  A source told me that there were 9 applicants for the

Good Morning Eventing Nation! This week has been busy week for competitions on the East Coast. The Ocala Winter II Horse Trials starts today [Live Scores, Ride Times], the Pine Top Winter II Horse Trials

Here are a few quick afternoon notes on a busy day around Eventing Nation: 1) Sven Homberg has resigned his FEI positions of Bureau Member and Chair of the Jumping Committee.  Mr. Holmberg was one

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that the Canadian Team will be giving grants to several riders to compete at Badminton this year.  The selectors have mad their picks, and I just spoke with Canadian

If you don’t already know, let me introduce you to the gender-neutral abomination of a mascot for the London Olympics named Wenlock.  Wenlock was introduced to much public shame and embarrassment in May of 2010,

Channel 12, the local CBS affiliate from Augusta, GA sent a camera crew out to the Aiken training sessions at Three Runs Plantation this week.  The video shows Mark Phillips, Running Order, Tipperary Liadhnan, Lainey

It’s late and I have an early morning, and frankly not a lot is going on in the eventing world as of when I am writing this.  So, I will abbreviate our traditional news and

The Pan American Games will take place this year in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 21st to 23rd.  As we all know, the Pan Ams have gone back to being CCI2*.  The main idea of downgrading

We had a great Monday on Eventing Nation with Samantha’s interview with Jimmy Wofford–which was made an instant ‘Best of EN.’  Jimmy truly is a remarkable horseman, and I get inspired every time I hear