Leo LOVES cows and just wants to lick their faces!
Cows are one of those things that horses either don’t care at all about, or they are a little bit freaked out about their entire lives. I live in an area where it’s impossible to even hack out for five minutes without running into a field of cows, and I’m lucky to have horses that actively love cows, but that hasn’t always been the case. Back in my teenage days, I was riding this lovely OTTB who was a great jumper and a fun little package, and he hacked out fine, but the first time we came upon some cattle in a field, that horse froze, snorted, and then whipped around and bolted with me right into a lake. In the winter. He never really got over it, and I learned to introduce cattle with no hazards available.
U.S. Weekend Preview:
Groton House Farm H.T. [Website] [Ride Times]
Surefire H.T. [Website] [Entry Status]
Fox River Valley Pony Club H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times]
Shepherd Ranch SYVPC H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Inavale Farm Spring H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Arrowhead H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Midsouth Pony Club H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Honey Run H.T. [Website] [Ride Times]
Abbe Ranch H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
News From Around the Globe:
Nicolas Hinze, who developed the CourseWalk App and the new Area II Volunteer Incentive Program website has just created a new app to display eventing results. This app was developed in response to a request by David O’Connor, who wanted to have U.S. scores presented in similar way as in Europe. Some of the new features that mirror the European scoring system include: displaying country flags, allowing user sorting and greater details on dressage scores. This new live scoring app also features scores per dressage movement and details as to which cross country fence was problematic. [New Live Scores App]
Horse & Hound leads the charge on Rio 2016 Olympic coverage. They’ve officially begun their six-week countdown with an entire section of the website and magazine devoted to everything Rio. Britain has already announced their list for the teams in Eventing and Show Jumping, but H&H also has a handy list of all confirmed riders for each sport for each country. Man, we better bring our A game to compete with this…[Horse & Hound Rio 2016]
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Inspired by her fellow Eventer’s journey to the NAJYRC, Brooke’s Browbands has offered to donate 25% of sales to Chelsea Kolman and Dauntless Courage on their way to Kentucky. We learned about Chelsea and Dante earlier this month, in our article about the ironically named gelding and Chelsea’s ingenious way of curing his anxiety attacks, and Brooke loved the story. Reminded of her own “problem child”, she has offered to donate some of the proceeds of her custom beaded browbands now through July 16th to help Chelsea and Dante get to NAJYRC. [Brooke’s Browbands]
Eventing Nation Blogger Contest!! Eventing Nation Blogger Contest!!! Seriously you guys, Jenni won this damn thing in 2012 and we still can’t get rid of her, so if you want to get your foot in the door, here’s the way. [ENTER NOW!!!]
Just a lil throwback for you….
https://youtu.be/MJnhAVOcUhM
