If you’ve been hanging around these here parts for a while, you know that one of the things we love the most is seeing a push for increased diversity in our (very white, largely affluent) industry. That’s why I’m particularly excited to see this post from Hannah Sue Hollberg, who’s been working with the MARS Maryland 5 Star on some exciting promotional content — content that, by the sounds of it, makes another positive push forward for that diversity initiative. We can’t wait to see the results.
National Holiday: It’s National One-Hit Wonder Day. I think I’ve got to put forward Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’ as my favourite example of the, um, genre.
U.S. Weekend Action:
Heritage Park H.T. (Olathe, KS) [Website] [Results]
Meadowcreek Park H.T – Fall Social Event (Kosse, TX) [Website] [Results]
Unionville H.T. (Unionville, PA) [Website] [Results]
Twin Rivers Fall International (Paso Robles, CA) [Website] [Results]
University of New Hampshire H.T. (Durham, NH) [Website] [Results]
UK Weekend Results:
Moreton Morrell (2) (Moreton Morrell, Warks.): [Results]
South of England International (2) (Ardingly, W. Sussex): [Results]
Alnwick Ford (2) (Morpeth, Northumberland): [Results]
Chard (Chard, Somerset): [Results]
Your Monday Reading List:
This year has seen a change in format for the Future Event Horse program. Now, it’s all rolled into a broader Young Horse Show Series, and one which spans the sport disciplines, giving talented homegrown young horses the chance to dangle a hoof in several disciplines that could be a good fit for them as they get older. The first of these new classes took place on Saturday at Loch Moy in Maryland – check out more about it to find out how that new format went down.
Horse obituaries always make me quite sad, but this one in H&H just made me want to find my own 15hh pocket rocket. I wasn’t familiar with the mare Ellas Drum, who managed to impress across a number of disciplines, but she sounds like she touched a lot of lives and was truly, undeniably, constantly fun. What a mare.
Art enthusiasts, history buffs, and horse obsessives, unite! There’s a bunch of 18th century Indian equestrian art going up for auction at Christie’s in London, and while most of us probably don’t have the £30,000 or so that each piece will likely yield, you can definitely still go have a good look at the works by heading over to the auction house next month. Just, um, try to pretend like you’re very rich, I guess.
Not sure what pre-, pro-, and postbiotics do? Is your knowledge limited to knowing that at least one of those things is in expensive yoghurts, possibly? Then it’s time to get to grips with the terminology, because the ‘biotics have became the new big thing in equine nutrition, and actually, using them sensibly could be a huge boon for your horse. Learn the ropes here.
Morning Viewing:
Follow up with mustang Dior’s first day of training with Elisa Wallace in part two of her new series:
