Monday News & Notes from Fleeceworks
Horses never cease to amaze me. Yesterday I went on hack and was merrily trotting along until my mare slammed on the breaks, threw her head down, and jumped sideways all the same time in
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Horses never cease to amaze me. Yesterday I went on hack and was merrily trotting along until my mare slammed on the breaks, threw her head down, and jumped sideways all the same time in
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Yesterday was a super day of competition at Stable View’s Oktoberfest. The track spreads some distance, but you could watch so much just from the comfort of shade from the Pavilion. If you were on
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How ironic is it that right before National Save Your Photos Day my iPhone yelled at me because I’m running out of storage? I don’t think us equestrians really need a special day to remind us
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A few weeks ago, my young horse jumped around his third and ostensibly last Training level. One week ago, he clobbered a specific jump in my ring, and was pretty mad at himself, but went
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In my life, I take a lot of photos of horses, and I’ve learned a few things along the way. First, the key is to take a lot and weed out the best ones. Second,
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EN, meet Phillip Dutton’s newest ride, Carlchen, who is owned by Caroline Moran. He’s had a number of notable jockeys including Stuart Tinney and Francis Whittington, while competing through the CCI4*-L level in Europe. Now settled
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It was a double dose of Martins at the local hospital yesterday as both Boyd Martin and Caroline Martin parted company from their horses in the CCI4*-S at Planation Field International, but we’re happy to
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Welcome to the final day of competition at Plantation Field! This is one special event — a hometown show for many, including Phillip Dutton, Boyd Martin and Erin Sylvester. But my favorite part is just
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There’s a whole lot of live stream action happening today, so you can go eventing without even getting on your own horse! Cross country day at SsangYong Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials kicks off bright
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Plantation weekend! And Blenheim weekend! It’s so exciting on so many levels! I wish everybody lots of fancy prancy, just enough bravery and speed on cross country, and careful tippy toes in show jumping. Bring
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Fun fact relating to this photo: one of my first ponies was actually from the wild herd in Corolla. They adopt a few out occasionally, if they are removed from the wild herd from one
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View this post on Instagram He’s hereee🇺🇸->🇬🇧 Thanks to Bill Levett and his family for having us! A post shared by Cornelia Roosevelt Dorr (@corneliadorr) on Sep 14, 2019 at 8:46am PDT Our North American
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View this post on Instagram Great pic of the crew following Quantum’s clear. Couldn’t do it without them! @courtlee26 @hitairequestrian @paynemurrayeventing @jorgenolijslager @teamannieeventing #party #doubleclear #eventing PC @chris2q A post shared by Doug Payne (@dpequestrian)
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Will you be at Stable View later this month? Pencil in Boyd Martin’s course walk! He’ll start at 4 p.m. Friday, September 27th at 4 p.m. You don’t want to miss his insight on this
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Good news for under-25 eventers! After the highly successful debut of the MARS Bromont Rising Program, which offered financial aid and training to eventers
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View this post on Instagram Just too gorgeous!!!! #tryoninternationalequestriancenter BadEventer needs help Saturday evening from 7-8pm If anyone near the Tryon International Eq Center would like to be part of the team, we could use
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So, it’s Friday the 13th, and if you put stock in that kind of thing be careful today! Also it’s a full moon tonight so I guess werewolves and stuff too? I’m only superstitious about
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So, we’re about halfway through September and stupid me thought I could quit checking the weather in Virginia, because I thought I was safe into the short period of fall where it’s actually pretty predictable
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Operation Find Pippa’s Hat Silk has been accomplished! The search for the Burghley winner’s beloved helmet cover, which she’s had for 30 years, is over as it has been returned by a good Samaritan. I don’t
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We are just over two weeks away from Stable View Oktoberfest, Aiken, South Carolina’s only four-star event. Aside from the banner competition, they’re offering competition at all FEI levels including the new one-star level. They’ve also
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What a weekFirst of all, US Eventing, you should be extremely proud of your crew that came over here this week. And… Posted by Dominic Schramm on Sunday, September 8, 2019 The U.S. contingent at the
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One look at the photo above and you might think that can’t have ended well — oh, but it did! It took a legendary ride from actual legend of a rider, but Pippa Funnell and MGH Grafton Street are still sitting atop the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials leaderboard after cross country.
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Good morning, Eventing Nation! It’s cross country day of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, which is always a very BIG day, of course, but it feels just a little extra exciting this year with so many
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