I’m all for playing tagging games with my fellow horse bloggers, but it’s no fair when they all have middle names with 3-5 letters, and mine is 8 with several repeats. I think MiKael over at Rising Rainbow was right in identifying this as a virus. I’ve already defeated the seven weird or little known [...]

(scroll down to watch videos of 2008 Bud Clydesdales, Shaq on horseback, and Big Ben American Idol ads) I’m a Steelers fan, so I’ll admit, I was pretty pleased that the Giants managed to pull off the upset on the Patriots last night. I mean, two out of the three years the Pats won the [...]

This has been going around the horse blogs for last day or so, so I knew it was only a matter of time before I became the next victim, er playmate…. I’ve been tagged by Grey Horse Matters (grey horses are my favorites by the way)  to share seven weird or little known facts about [...]

I’m still working on catching up on Practical Horseman reading, and the October 2007 issue ends with a hilarious glossary of judging acronyms. Kim Ablon Whitney explains that using shorthand is an essential skill for judges watching horses and their riders tackle the same course all day. She says… “the trick is to come up [...]

I saw this video over on Equine Spirit’s blog and just sat watching, mesmerized. This is the Metropolitan Mounted Police performing a drill at the 2006 London International Horse Show. It will blow your mind. These horses do all kinds of crazy things … jumping through fire, jumping side by side, jumping towards each other [...]

I saw this video over on Learning Horse’s blog and couldn’t resist sharing. I can just watch it over and over and over. This horse has quite a jump; the kind that useful in the jumper ring since he has absolutely no intention whatsoever of coming remotely close to touching that fence. However, it doesn’t [...]

Thanks a bunch to Anne and her daughter Lily over at Smells Horsey for sharing this online horse jumping game from Jumporama. I think I get worse every time I play it. Anne fell off three times, but I’ve already lost count. I’ll keep at it though, and I bet you will too! Nov 5, [...]