The hammock makes for a great view of cross country at Pine Top! Photo via Pine Top Eventing Facebook
My first event of the season wrapped Sunday evening at Pine Top’s Intermediate Horse Trials. I spent the days working for Mark Lehner of Hoofclix photography and catching up with longtime friends who happened by. Even though it was 25 degrees when dressage started on Friday morning (talk about cold fingers!), it was a beautiful 70 degrees when cross country finished Sunday afternoon. I’m excited to return in two weeks for the Advanced horse trials! If you’re there and see me (I’ll have a camera) please say hello!
Weekend Results:
Pine Top Intermediate H.T. [Results]
Ocala Winter II H.T. [Results]
Full Gallop Farm February I H.T. [Results]
Monday News and Notes:
Everyone loves a great rehab story. Whether it brings us to tears or makes us even more grateful for our equine friends, rehab stories are some of the most inspiring stories to tell. For that reason, we’d love to hear yours! Send us your rehab story for your chance to win an awesome prize pack from OCD as well as see your story told right here on EN! [Win with OCD]
How do horses and humans affect one another’s brains? Anna Jaffe is looking to find out. Through her research project using EEG, gene transcription factors and real time hormone levels to study and horse and human brain while riding, the aim is to understand how lasting positive change happens in the human brain and to find a neurological pain signature for horses. [Website] [Indiegogo] [Chronicle Article]
Horse and Hound has announced guest editors. Eventer Oliver Townend is among the spring guest editor’s for Horse and Hound. The guest editors contribute feature ideas and editorials for an issue of the magazine that is focused on their discipline. What a fun way to include prominent equestrians in media! [Top riders set to guest edit H&H magazine]
Horse people tend to have “systems” when it comes to barn chores, tacking up, loading the trailer for a show. Systems help us form habits which help us to remember each step. You know that persistent paranoia when you’ve done things out of order and feel like you may have forgotten something? Veterinarians often adopt systematic approaches for examinations to ensure that they have been thorough. [Equine Dental Exams in Five Easy Steps]
Twenty-one horses and mules have been reported stolen from seven counties in Northern Alabama since August 2014. Stolen Horse International attempts to reunite stolen equines with their rightful owners and wants the public to be on the lookout for suspicious activities at their own farms in the surrounding areas. [Rash of stolen horses worry North Alabama horse owners]
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