A few years ago, I started my first post on this site with An Eventer’s Letter to Santa.  Why not let the tradition continue?   An Event Horse’s Letter to Santa     Dear Santa,

How about some smiles from www.icanhascheezburger.com?    I would not recommend trying this at home…but it is a nice party trick. see more Lolcats and funny pictures   Baby camel plays with a horse   see

Friday morning, the USEA convention started with a fitness evaluation of the high performance US riders.  The evaluation started at 7am and, being a glutton for punishment, I woke up at 6:55 and sleepwalked down

The odd, the ignorant, and the bizarre, with enough typos and grammar errors to make this site seem articulate.  Has to be Craigslist!      LIKE TO TRADE FOR HORSE – $1 (HAMLET)   I HAVE A

This is the top hole, it is 1.9m (6 foot 3 inches), Evan Leuret These guys are nicknamed the Flying Frenchmen but they do have a Italian boy amongst them so they are called The

Life was rough growing up eventing in MichiganI would like to extend a special thanks to The Eventing Association of Michigan for a wonderful time at their annual awards banquet Saturday night.  I started eventing

Brian O’Connor has truly outdone himself in today’s Insanity in the Middle video.  Brian takes a look back at a great past month of eventing, including such topics as: Bughley, Marlborough, the earthquake, the hurricane,

Hey guys, what’s new?  The Eventing Nation mobile command center is on the way to Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia for the American Eventing Championships.  Let’s jump right into answers to all of the questions you have

Shannon Lilley deserves a team spot after winning the selection trials, Samantha Clark photo The US short list vet inspections concluded earlier today and by this time tomorrow we will know the US squad and

via Icanhascheezburger.com Canadian eventing has emerged as a true international eventing power after finishing 2nd at last year’s World Equestrian Games.  Although Canada is already qualified for the Olympics next year, the fighting maple leafs

Friends, Greetings from beautiful Richland Park!  And by “Richland Park” I mean “a Michigan McDonald’s!”  But I was at Richland last night and I will be back tomorrow for the exciting beginning of one of

Over the past two weeks the FEI has updated their eventing, dressage, and show jumping yellow card lists.  I have commented thoroughly on my feelings about the yellow card system, and in particular Steph’s and

The USEF named a diverse group of riders to the Pan American list today, from talented up and coming riders at the dawn of their careers to international riders at the top of their game

As the east coast horses fly back from Rebecca Farm today, here are a few notes on the ups and downs from the exciting weekend in Montana.  1) Hawley Bennett and Gin N’ Juice picked

Phillip has several Olympic prospect horses, but this isn’t one of them US high performance lists fascinate me.  Not only because I love Team USA and want to see us dominate, but also because I

A typical Saturday evening at a horse trials in Canada requires head to toe tactical gear There is a tradition here at Bromont among the course builders, Bromoont staff, riders, and anyone else who wishes

To my great dismay, I have never been eventing in British Columbia.  After looking at these photos that Chelan sent from the Johvale event in BC last weekend, particularly the top one, my next step

Why is it that all of our photos and reports from California involve either drinking or tiaras?  This is a photo of Frederic Bouland celebrating his 50th birthday at Galway last weekend.  Frederic’s friends dressed

There once was a sport called baseball, where the players stood around and occasionally ran from one place to another, swung a bat, or threw a ball.  Then, some baseball players decided that the ball

Readers of EN are well aware of my epic adventure to obtain a new iPad 2 which started in Tallahassee Florida and ended on Monday of this week at my local Apple Store a month

Last night I removed “publish news on Eventing Nation from a borrowed iPhone in Europe” from my bucket list.  I want to thank the EN Team for doing a great job holding down the fort

A top British rider has told me that there are concerns among Badminton’s organizers that riders might have to be re-routed around the famous Badminton Lake complex this year.  Apparently a large snapping turtle has

After some consideration, I don’t know what I want for dinner, but I will look into potential meals more soon on my drive home, and I will be considering all of my options thoroughly before