I finally got to ride my horse last night after two weeks and two days of no riding due to my exploits at the World Equestrian Games. And I am not at all ashamed to admit that as Ace and I trotted around the arena I caught myself imagining that we were warming up for [...]

One of the benefits of having an office job and two monitors is that I can pretty easily play the live stream of the World Equestrian Game show jumping on FEITV in a corner while I work. I got a lot done with one eye on the show jumpers … many of whom made it [...]

I almost titled this “Dressage Dominated By Edward Gal, Laura Bechtolsheimer, and Steffen Peters” but decided I ought to give credit where credit is due: their absolutely fantastic horses. These riders took the top three spots during the Team Grand Prix early in the week, and never relinquished them. And even more impressively, they just [...]

The other day I had the distinct pleasure of spending the day at the World Equestrian Games with my very good blogger friend Courtney from Three Days Three Ways. And when you are with a real-life eventer the day before her favorite discipline starts, it’s all about eventing. And it rocked getting the “inside scoop” [...]

Today kicks off the first day of eventing competition at the World Equestrian Games, with the first half of the riders doing their dressage phase. Friday will wrap up dressage, Saturday will be the cross country, and show jumping and medal awards are on Sunday. But yesterday morning I got to do something very fun, [...]

There are only two things that are worth mentioning about the dressage team Grand Prix event at the World Equestrian Games, and that’s simply because they overshadowed everything else: the sweet scoreboards and Edward Gal. First the scoreboards. Check out these suckers, that were positioned on all four sides of the arena so everyone could [...]

Dressage day one dawned cold, dreary, and rainy here in Lexington, Kentucky. I was prepared though, and even a little bit excited to have the chance to show off my super cute dav rain boots (I was really disappointed I wasn’t allowed to bring my matching umbrella into the Park). Dav sent these to me [...]