Happy New Year to everyone! The office here was closed until today so things were quiet on the blogging front, but I’m ready to get back into it with all the interesting tidbits from the horse world. Here are a few items that caught my eye this morning. It’s a bit heartbreaking to hear about someone...

With the 2008 National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Futurity & Adequan® North American Affiliate Championship Show beginning today, the NRHA has put together a video about the Futurity. Check it out at http://nrha.com/futurity.php and also check out the video below of Shawn Flarida’s 2007 Championship...

As with every aspect of eventing, the most important thing is to do your homework. Look into the sport and ask yourself, why is it that you want to participate, and to what level? It’s necessary to know a little bit about what you want to do ahead of time so that you can set attainable goals. Goal setting...

Gina winning the individual silver medal was remarkable. McKinlaigh was amazing. They are such a cool partnership… Gina is a cool customer and McKinlaigh jumps with the best of them. Their tensest moments were at the horse inspection when McKinlaigh was held. He has a funny way of going in one of his...

Cross country day knocked everyone around a little bit… it certainly didn’t go as we expected. In just a couple of moments our medal hopes were dashed. I can’t remember the last time I was at an event when Amy fell off. Becky and Comet are one of the most reliable cross-country combinations in the world...

Another 5 a.m. wake-up call this morning has meant for not a lot of sleep… but watching Mandiba grow up in the dressage ring was well worth the missing z’s. What a cool little horse. Karen was thrilled with him, his flying changes were awesome and he just kept trying. Phillip’s horse, Connaught wasn...

I forgot two of the most exciting parts of the trip so far… Sara Ike and I went on a food shopping adventure to get food and nosh for horses and grooms back at the stables. Mr. Lau (our trusty driver) finally realized that while, we may be good at what we do, we don’t need to take some things quite so...

There was not quite as much rain today, the weather is fine. Not too hot but we haven’t seen the sun yet. The Olympics are like going to the first horse show of the year… you see all the people you haven’t seen since the last major competition and it is like old home week. It takes a couple of days to...

After numerous requests… here it is blog number one! That day I lost somewhere over the Pacific would come in really handy as I hit the ground running and am now finally catching up. I arrived on Monday night in Hong Kong after five days at our North American Junior/Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC...