As I wandered between the World Equestrian Games and the International Equestrian Festival, spending time with horse crazy friends, horse husbands, entertainers, trainers, and competitors, I kept wondering the same thing: Do these top level competitors and trainers still have their love of horses? No doubt they were horse crazy kids just like we were, [...]

Have you always dreamed of riding a four star cross country course? Especially the cross country course from the 2010 World Equestrian Games? You can! Ride the WEG cross country course with Aussie Peter Atkins and his horse Henny of Run Henny Run fame. Check it out: The WEG course had 45 jumping efforts and [...]

With the exception of perhaps Moorlands Totilas and Edward Gal, one thing is sure about equestrian competition: it can be anybody’s day. The horses and riders we think are shoe-ins don’t always win, and very often a more unknown pair will have a spectacular day and take home the medal. Just at the World Equestrian [...]

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” [...]