Here are a few quick late night links before we get Sarah’s working student post: Despite numerous funding challenges, Adelaide CCI4* in Australia is set to run in mid-November. The event has received a lot
...» Read More!As promised, here is the third of my Fantasy Equestrian Discipline Interview Trilogy (FEDIT) for Eventing Nation. It’s been a struggle in which I’ve used “delete” more often than “enter” and even had my hand
...» Read More!I am proud to introduce Jenny as the latest guest blogger added to our autumn lineup. Jenny has ambitiously decided to spend the next year of her life as a working student. Everything in eventing
...» Read More!Eventing Nation’s UK connection, aka lec, recently adopted a rescue horse and generously offered to take us on a multi-part tour of the horse’s development. Today she writes about how she came to find the
...» Read More!Steph Rhodes-Bosh, a Canadian short lister and 5th place Rolex ’10 finisher, checks in with her latest blog entry after competing at Waredeca last weekend. Click here or in the “categories” portion of the sidebar
...» Read More!Friends, let me know if this ever happens to you. You’re sitting down to write the morning post on Eventing Nation, either at 2:30 in the morning or noon the next day and your plan
...» Read More!Behind every great ride is a great groom. Frances, an Eventing Nation reader and now certified superb guest writer, groomed at the Wayne Horse Trials in Illinois this weekend and was kind enough to write
...» Read More!Ok, hopefully I’ll have time soon to write a comprehensive overview of our autumn guest blogging schedule, but we have heard so far from Holly Hudspeth, Steph Bosch, and Leah. As you know, Leah has
...» Read More!As part of writing the pentathlon mini-series, JER took a few pentathlon-related photos, including the infamous photo of Casper that we ultimately used for all five of the pentathlon posts. JER’s mule Casper has become
...» Read More!Samantha Clark, host of the 2010 Radio show, and EN favorite traveled home to the UK this weekend for the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe. Like Millbrook, quite a few WEG horses were at
...» Read More!Here is the fifth and final part of JER’s pentathlon mini-series, which has been incredibly enjoyable to read and has helped push the quality of writing on Eventing Nation to new highs. The bar is
...» Read More!OK, as promised – “Fun and Games at the Dressage Show,” the second in my interdisciplinary fantasy interview series. (No, I will not whine any more about John’s writing skills versus mine – not too
...» Read More!JER’s instant “Best of EN” Pentathlon mini-series continues with our phase: riding You’re doing what this weekend? Part 1 (intro), Part 2 (fence), Part 3 (swim) From JER: The riding phase of modern pentathlon has
...» Read More!Not to rain on JER’s parade, but you know those great strong rides from great riders in all the Burghley videos? Well, imagine the exact opposite and that’s how I rode the coffin today. I’m
...» Read More!First, as a quick note, Eventing Nation seems to be crashing today for unknown reasons. Literally, I finished walking the course with David, checked my email and saw that EN had crashed. We are working
...» Read More!From the epic JER: You’re doing what this weekend? At the dawn of the 20th century, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, envisioned a multi-sport discipline that would test the skills
...» Read More!We are getting into the thick of guest blogging season as the WEGs approach, and I am very proud to welcome back Holly Hudspeth and “Stewie”. As everyone knows, Holly and Stewie are members of
...» Read More!Kim B, an Eventing Nation reader, attended the East Coast Pony Club Championships last weekend at the Virginia Horse Center and was kind enough to tell us her story with words and photos, playing off
...» Read More!What pisses me off worse than anything in the world is the blinding rage I feel when reading something really good that was written by someone who is a better writer than I am.
...» Read More!It seems like a millennia ago now, but Lauren and I were teammates on the Area 8 YR team in ’05 and ’06. The team in ’06 was stacked–we had one Rolex horse, Bru McGuire, two
...» Read More!When a reader emailed me a link to JER’s post about FEI yellow cards on the COTH forums, the FEI’s decisions described therein struck me with that mixture of amusement and horror that our sport creates
...» Read More!Link: USEA CIC3* show jumping photos As a quick note before we get to Chelan’s final post from Rebecca Farm, in the advanced division, Amy Tryon and Leyland jumped from fourth to first with just
...» Read More!The Rebecca Farm crowd–courtesy of Katy, a recent EN convert I think I speak for all of Eventing Nation when I say that the loss of Suzy Elliott’s Chauncy still weighs heavily on my mind
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