Happy Monday everyone! I’m looking down the barrel of a relatively horse-free week. I’m heading to Florida today to visit the paternal side of my family, and will be gone until Sunday. Between Gulfrstam, which is close to where my grandparents live, and the Palm Beach Equestrian Center, five miles away from my aunt and uncle, I’ve always managed to fit something equestrian into my visits. This time, however, I think I’ll stick to sunning, eating, and okay, finishing a stack of training manuals so that when I get back my horse and I have a lot to work on!
Weekend Results:
University of New Hampshire HT
Events Opening This Week:
Ram Tap Horse Trials (CA, A-6) Ocala Horse Properties Fall Event (FL, A-3) Las Cruces H.T. (NM, A-10) River Glen Fall H.T. (TN, A-3)
Monday Morning News:
24 police departments competed in the North American Police Championships this weekend. The event, held in Gaithersburg, Md, was a two-day affair that tested the police officers’ equitation and their ability to navigate an obstacle course. [ABC 2 News]
Lauren Sammis has a new horse she’s gearing towards the 2014 World Equestrian Games. Sammis’ seven-year relationship with Sagacious HF, who she competed with in the Olympic Trials, came to an end this year. However, she’s got a new prospect in Lombard V, a horse that she got the ride on by being persistent enough with his owner. Now, if Caroline Powell would start answering my e-mails regarding Lenamore…[Star-Ledger]
The Chronicle sits down with Plantation Field organizer Dennis Glacum and landowner Katie Walker about the past, present, and future of the horse trials. Both admit that the turnout of the event has surpassed their own expectations, and that they’re eager to make the necessary improvements to make it even better in the future. [The Chronicle]
A horse has been euthanized in Loudon County, Va, after contracting West Nile. Scary news for us around the area. My horse used to live in Loudon before I moved him to Maryland last spring. The 9-year-old Morgan was the first horse infected in Virginia. [The Washington Post]
William Fox-Pitt talks Olympics, his massive string of horses and Burghley 2012, as well as his CCI record of wins and being: “especially relieved to have won the 50th before I’m 50!” [The Chronicle]
Another British eventing great, Tina Cook, sat down to talk about her experience since the Olympics. Tina talks about her children, both under 10, her tumultuous years with Olympic partner Miner’s Frolic, and the Zara circus in London. [Sussex Life]
Bad news for breeders in the Midwest; the IDHSNA USEA Future Event Horse Central Championships was canceled. The event, scheduled for October 11 at Willow Draw Farm in Weatherford, Tex., was canceled due to lack of entries. The East Coast championships took place Saturday at Morven Park in Va., and the West Coast will kick off October 19 at Ram Tap in Fresno, Calif. [US Eventing]
Tweet of the Week (remember, I’m judging, not you!)
@WeirdHorse: Reading Fifty Shades of Neigh, a novel about a horse who can’t make noises in the sunshine
And now for a Preliminary helmet cam from Poplar Place last weekend:
