You should remember Meg from her chronicles of Sinead and Tate at Burghley, and from her official introduction as a regular contributor here at EN. Meg’s landed in sunny Florida and sounds like she’s having a blast. Thanks for sharing, Meg!
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LIVE! From Camp Taterball – Ocala, FL
Well Well Well. SHE has officially landed and settled in Ocala, FL. Just in time, too – NJ reported highs of 8 degrees Fahrenheit the day we left. WELP, see ya later NJ.
This week has been spent de-winterizing here at Winter Quarter South. Everyone is getting their hair did and their toes did and are beginning to look fresh – to -death as my friend Dellsie would say. The barn is perfect, and the only complaint I have is that there isn’t a lazy river flowing through the property to take Sarah and I (and Baloo) to and from our apartment.
The owner of the barn, Frances Robinson, is a riot – and has somehow conned us into frequenting semi private Pilates classes. Health is the name of the game here at SHE…that is until 6 pm when the 99 cent margaritas call us to El Toreo.
Today was our first baby outing – we took Cathy Dudick’s Baby Nore – a lovely young TB who shows real promise as an eventer – and BWFurlong’s fancy young irish horse D-Lux, over to Kyle Carter’s XC field for some edjumikashun. Once they both realized, woefully, that Christmas vacation was over, they went straight to work. We are excited to debut next weekend at the Longwood Starter Trial, which will be the perfect pipe opener for the young horses this season.
The older horses have gotten to begin practicing in our new (courtesy of mama Cogdell) dressage ring which we put together early in the week. Namely our first trying task, requiring a team effort in counting meters and strides and white pieces and letters A + 66 meters plus EXB plus 4 paces – 1 corner piece equals ???
Our special guest for the month, Belle, owned by Kim Harrar, is gearing up for domination at DerbyX next week. If you guys aren’t busy I highly recommend heading to Wellington for this entertaining affair. Not only will you feel like a minority for not wearing a visor helmet, you will have a grand time rubbing shoulders with some of the best show jumpers, event riders, and most notably some very good looking world renowned polo players. (for more info – head to www.derbycross.com)
That’s all for now here at Winter Quarter South. I am going to begin working on a video blog segment for my next installment. I cannot divulge too much information…mostly because any information I would divulge at this point would be a complete fabrication, but I want to make sure everyone that had to stay north this winter – gets to see firsthand what they are missing here in the great big city of SlowCala.
