My favorite photo that I took this past weekend, Kaitlin Spurlock & Fernhill Select
Good Morning Eventing Nation! I hope you are all settled down for the ten minutes it takes you to make coffee, toast some bread and check out the news from EN today, all before you head off for your busy day of work! Nyls and I are enjoying a nice week of long hacks out through the woods and the fields and the rivers (as his reward for good behavior at Millbrook) before we get back to work this weekend. I’m loving the low key atmosphere at home, and enjoying getting back on my other horses, who all tried to buck me off after a week away!
Events This Weekend:
Hunters Run HT: [Website]
The Summer Event at Woodside: [Website] [Times]
Otter Creek Summer HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
GMHA Festival of Eventing August Horse Trials: [Website] [Times]
Area VII Young Rider Benefit HT: [Website] [Times]
Fair Hill International HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
Colorado Horse Park One Day HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
News from Around the Globe:
Burghley 2013 entries are out, and in all there are 87 horse & rider combinations set to compete. There is only one American pair, Buck Davidson & Park Trader, although Rebecca Howard and Riddle Master are also entered, and we count them almost American. The list also includes Chilli Morning’s return the the CCI4* level after a bit of a blip at Rolex this spring. WFP has three horses entered, Andrew Nicholson has four competing, and Mark Todd has two horses who are both new to the 4* level. Go Burghley! [Burghley Entries]
How would you like to win a $5,000 shopping spree from SmartPak? Silly question, of course you would! The contest is easy to enter, and ends at the end of August, so hurry up and enter today! Don’t forget to tell all your horsey friends, maybe if they win they’ll share with you…[Enter for $5,000 at SmartPak]
The New York Social Diary picked up some party pictures from Fitch’s Corner HT in Millbrook NY. The event celebrated it’s 20th anniversary in style, with a whopping 50 shops, a collector car exhibit, and a spectator luncheon for 350 people with champagne abounding. Check out the hats the ladies wore, they rival those of Derby day! [NYSD Party Pictures of Fitch’s Corner]
Team & Individual Olympic gold medallist Charlotte DuJardin is sporting some new wheels….with her own image on the side! Charlotte recently got her brand new horse box, a sporty little gold bespoke Boss Horsebox with her and Valegro trotting across a British flag. All I’m saying is, Boyd, where is your horse box with your image on it? [Charlotte’s New Wheels]
Have you seen? Chanel is getting into the horse products market. Now, you can be the *proud* owner of a Chanel helmet, or even smack your horse on it’s butt with a Chanel whip! What’s next, Gucci breeches?? [Chanel Equestrian 2013]
My SmartPak pick of the day is the best cure to cuts and scrapes I’ve used in a while: Ag Silver Wound Spray. If you read my Cross Country care article yesterday, you’ll know that I’m pretty obsessive about keeping an eye out for random bumps and nicks garnered from a hard gallop on course. I’m always looking for the best way to help my horse heal from these, and the Ag Silver spray works great as a natural alternative for the treatment and prevention of viral, fungal and bacterial infections such as scratches, rain rot, cuts, wounds, fungus and skin irritations. [Ag Silver Wound Spray FTW]
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Want to see Dom Schramm eat dirt (literally) AND get an education in saddle fitting? Watch this:
