Happy Saturday everyone! Lots of things going on this weekend, loads of events, lots of lovely hot weather (ugh) and tons of fun just waiting to be had! Big news in my neck of the woods: after 6 days of no power or water (aka Kate hauling buckets of water from the neighbor with a generator 4 times a day) we Virginians have finally gotten to shower. Thank goodness, because the lot of us were getting very smelly and quite short tempered with the 102 degree weather. Apologies to the 5% who still don’t have power, I feel your pain.
If you’ve still got the Barbury hangover (symptoms include a mild/not-so-mild obsession with US team members as well as any sort of opinion/outrage at team selections), you should definitely check out this week’s Eventing Radio Show. Samantha chats about the Australian, New Zealand, Irish and of course US team selections, as well as having a plethora of guests including Boyd, Will, Lucinda Fredericks, Jock Paget, and Mark Kyle. [Listen Here to the Eventing Radio Show]
Also, very briefly, if you want to watch either the CHIO in Aachen or the XC in the CCI***, here are the links:
[CHIO]
[CCI***]
Weekend Events:
Aachen CCI***: [Live Scores]
Coconino Summer HT (AZ): [Website] [Live Scores]
Whidbey Island Pony Club HT (WA): [Website] [Live Scores]
Maryland HT (MD): [Website]
Genesee Valley HT (NY): [Website] [Live Scores]
Chattahoochee Hills HT (GA): [Website] [Live Scores]
University of New Hampshire HT (NH): [Website] [Live Scores]
ENYDCTA/Old Chatham HT (NY): [Website]
Links Links Links!!
Ludger Beerbaum bows out of the London 2012 Olympics
British Eventing has lost more than 50 days and at least £500,000 per event in rain cancellations
USEA Adequan Gold Cup series continues next weekend at the Event at Rebecca Farms in Montana
Some more wonderful Barbury photographs courtesy of @monty_white
Sinead realizes hindsight is 20/20 and talks about personal pep-talks [via COTH]
Worried your pony is getting chubby on the summer grass?? Check out how to “fat-score” your horse.
Seriously cool shirts from Dapplebay, “Live Free and Jump XC”
Trending on Twitter: Laura Collett and Rayef take the lead
Hot on HN: TGIF Dressage Jamz: Toto & Gaga
Best of Blogs: Seriously, when does Doug Payne NOT get best of blogs??