The USEF has sent out a release today announcing that $50,000 in Land Rover performance grants to US riders for their placing performance at Burghley and Blenheim:  Boyd Martin: $10,000 for top 10% performance at

  As I read John’s news and notes from Tuesday morning, I found myself wondering back to the idea of Fantasy Football. Fantasy Football is such a great creation. I mean, you get to have

This Boekelo promo video is rated MNSFW–‘Mildly not safe for work’ as in it won’t send you to hell but you don’t want your boss to catch you watching it The Pan American Games training

I’m not going to lie.  I don’t really care about the Cowboys and I don’t really care about the Redskins.  But I watched every snap of Monday Night Football just to watch my fantasy football

Now that is positive thinking. Photo via commentcherry.com Happy Monday Eventing Nation! As we near closer to October, we get closer to the end of the season. But don’t you worry yet, there are still

Get your Sunday morning coffee- ASAP. Well ladies and gents, the word on the street is John has returned to the great state of Virginia. In fact, I can confirm this word by saying John

In honor of the recent eastern rainstorms, because nothing is worse than white socks and a muddy warmup. Photo by yours truly. Yesterday a Somali terrorist group decided to get creative, or perhaps is just

From WCTV: “Darren Chiacchia’s lawyer Baron Coleman tells WCTV, all charges have been dropped against Darren who was accused of having sex with a partner without informing him he was infected with HIV.”  [WCTV] WCTV,

Carl Bouckaert and Mensa this morning at Poplar Place, photo via Andrew McConnon It’s the Carl Bouckaert, Ronald Zabala-Goetschel, and Nina Ligon division at Poplar Place in the CIC3*.  With just 10 pairs in the

Name: Rebecca Rickly Age: 51 Location: West of Lubbock, TX Relationship to Eventing:  Since I started eventing six years ago, I have ridden up to Training level, I’ve been a jump judge and a volunteer,

Photo via someecards.com Good morning Eventing Nation! Apparently, since Facebook made those changes yesterday morning, you all took to your blogs instead. While the ever-changing Facebook is very frustrating, we all get used to it

One EN family’s vacation fun.  Courtesy of Karen, Savannah, and Grace Good Morning Eventing Nation, and welcome to Thursday. There are many types of news days we have here on EN– The busy days, the

Photo via hazlisles It’s a quiet afternoon around Eventing Nation as we get ready for Poplar Place horse trials, the Area IV championships at Otter Creek, and 5 other USEA events this weekend.  The mandatory

Super cuteness, if you couldn’t deduce that on your own. Happy Wednesday to you Eventing Nation! I finally got to ride my horse! No, he wasn’t lame or anything… I just didn’t have the time.

via Macy and Katie Good Morning Eventing Nation! I don’t know I about you, but I sure have the Tuesday blues today. Maybe it  has something to do with the overcast skies and cold temperatures

  Happy Monday Eventing Nation! Well the cooler weather certainly seems to be upon us. Although it has me a bit worried about the potential brutal winter that could be ahead, I am just choosing

Good Morning Eventing Nation, and welcome to Sunday. Plantation Field Horse Trials is wrapping up today, just after the winners are decided. Marilyn Little-Meredith certainly has made a strong return to US Eventing after a

Photo via Kristine Burgess The Junior Development Rider program has been going on in Minnesota for about 10 years, and was the brainchild of Kathy and Fred Hund. It started as a bridge between those

I took this photo, bow down to the overt artistic talent Oh hello there EN, guess who’s on link duty today! I can think of no higher honor than being the the one to type

..It’s called Eventing Nation. Photo via meowcheese.com There’s so much going on, Eventing Nation, that there’s no time for any ridiculousness cleverness this morning! If you stalk the entries, read, listen, and watch the rest

Evidently there was a food fight at the O’Connors a couple nights ago, which culminated in Karen pieing OCET member Hannah Burnett in the face. Niccccceeeee. Thanks to Lauren K for sending us the photo. 

As a quick afternoon note, Canada has made their team selections for the Pan American Games official. No surprises here: The squad: James Atkinson and GustavRebecca Howard and RoquefortHawley Bennett and Five O’Clock SomewhereJessica Phoenix

Guess what time I wrote this post?  Photo via dumblittleman.com Happy Wednesday Eventing Nation! You’ve made it halfway through your week. Whether or not that’s technically true, depends on the time you read this, and