Happy Friday! Today and tomorrow in Virginia will be in the 60’s, and I’m going to soak up every little bit of that Vitamin D and wear a t-shirt if I can get away with

After three weeks in January where almost no rides happened due to two snow storms, February has already kicked off at a proper rate and everybody is double panicked about work missed with their horses.

Now here is a cool opportunity just waiting to be seized! Ebony Horsewomen, Inc. Equestrian and Therapeutic Center has received funding from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to provide full scholarships to 20 BIPOC

    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by 𝑀𝑐𝑁𝑎𝑏 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 🇦🇺 (@mcnabeventing) Sorry, but is there anything cuter than tiny eventing superstars-in-the-making in their very large helmets? Annabelle McNab, daughter of

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Emma Thomas Eventing (@emmathomaseventing) I had the great joy of heading over to Pippa Funnell’s place last week to write some training pieces based on her

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and while I already know what my plans are (drinking a bottle of wine of the couch while watching Olympics — very romantic, I know) I have yet

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by EarlnJen McFall (@dragonfirefarm) Cool news! There’s going to be some extra equestrian excitement to watch at the Kentucky Three-Day Event this year in the

I don’t know if I’m just getting old, but I just don’t have it in me to grind through riding when it’s cold and raining and everything is covered in snow. I mean, I’ll do

Does anybody else have a horse that seems to gain energy the longer they are ridden? Yesterday I decided to ride my thoroughbred down the entire dirt road I live on, which is three miles

I always chuckle at the end of a calendar year when I send my sister in Korea a “Happy New Year!” text because I know what I’ll get in response: “Silly, that’s not the new

    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Black Equestrians (@blackequestrians) Well, here it is, folks: the first of February has finally graced us with its presence, and that means you’ve

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Camilla Speirs (@camillaspeirsbt) Huge congratulations to Irish eventer Camilla Speirs and her partner, show jumper Ethen Ahearne, who welcomed their first child, baby Tilly (great name), into

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how it seemed like everywhere else in the country had been getting more snow than my area of the the North East. Well … I think we’ve caught now.

I think that everyone in Area I feared this day would come, but that doesn’t make the pill any easier to swallow. After two years of cancelling the event due to COVID concerns, Groton House

Ah winter, the season of lost shoes! With mud, frozen footing, and horses on vacation, the recipe is perfect for a farrier’s nightmare. In fact, have you thanked your farrier today? I know my farrier’s

In our world, as in every other world, there are people who are naturally good at self-promotion, and those who shy away from it. The relationship between actual talent and ability to self promote are

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sara Kozumplik Murphy (@sarakm_overlookf) Panama has itself a newly-minted eventer! Congratulations to Romulo Roux and Colenomer on finishing third in a big Novice Rider division at

Now here’s a cool little throwback to start your week! Kim Severson posed for a quick photo with her cross country vest from the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where she and the famous Winsome Adante

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Allison Springer Eventing (@allisonspringereventing) So you went to Aiken to get away from the cold and the snow. Turns out you can run, but

Alert! Alert! You should already know that there are a new set of dressage tests for 2022, but now there are new new dressage tests. That’s right — a couple tweaks have been made to

Even though you went south to avoid the cold, by now you are likely aware that it will be well below freezing on both Friday and Saturday nights in Aiken! The latest weather information indicates that