Will Faudree won the Plantation CIC*** on Pawlow. He also featured in the poem I wrote about Rolex when I was 16. Well done Will!
Good morning EN! While you were all watching and waiting for results from Plantation, I was riding at Marlborough HT in Maryland on Saturday. I narrowly avoided humiliation when I stuck to a bad duck-out at the second fence of stadium. As I saw the ground rising up to meet me, I saw the faces of my friends who came to see me, my credit card statement from the entry fee, and all the time I spent braiding a squirrely Throughbred at 7 a.m. And I thought “oh HELL no!” Actually no, I didn’t think that, I said it. Plus a few other expletives. I stayed on, we completed and went on to have an amazing cross-country round. So, yay!
Here’s your Monday news:
Weekend Results
Events Opening This Week
CDCTA Fall H.T. (VA, A-2) Poplar Place Farm November H.T. (GA, A-3) Texas Rose Horse Park H.T. (TX, A-5)
The horses gracing the final jump at the London Olympics are for sale. The two leaping horses sculpted by Tom Hill out of recycled horse shoes, will go up for auction in November at Christie’s, and falls in the $50-80,000 range. [Horse and Hound]
Racewood Equestrian Simulators have a simulator for everything it appears, including dressage, polo and show jumping. The sensors on the horse make it necessary for you to apply the correct aid to get the desired result. I think regular horses also have this feature, but with the technology it’s a lot harder to blame the simulator for ‘misbehaving.’ [Poughkeepsie Journal]
Buddhist monks ride like crazy people on ponies in the world’s highest horse race every year in Nepal, where they ride hardened ponies through a rocky streambed for honor and glory, and it turns out, as many ruples as you can pick up without getting off your mount. [Daily News]
Clayton Fredericks is moving to the US, well not really. He’s opening a new facility in Ocala and plans to bring four of his mounts over after Fair Hill. The facility, which boasts 36 stalls and 750 acres, will also have the potential to hosts events as well. [Chronicle of the Horse]
Because I love Hamish Cargill so very much, here’s a repost of his advice for William Fox-Pitt on how to enjoy Australia. The mental image of WFP on a lounger soaking up the sun is almost too much for me. That’s a whole lot of pasty English man to take in. [An Eventful Life]
Team Wallace has released Part I of ‘Eventing in the Digital Age,’ a guide to how technology and social media has expanded the world of eventing. One thing I didn’t know? Doug Payne was in engineering school when he developed the helmet cam. The man has talent. [Eventing USA]
A mysterious horse named Rusty has been living in a condemned Bronx stable, and now residents and a city councilman are fighting to save it. I say ‘it’ because no one knows anything about Rusty. The article says ‘they don’t even know if it is male or female.’ Seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to check…[New York Times]
Handsome Mike beat Travers Stakes winner Alpha in the Pennsylvania Derby. He went off at 19-1 odds and won the $1 million purse by two lengths. [Philly Burbs]
