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, [...]

I’ve come to learn that there are three groups of people in the world: people who love horses, people who love people who love horses, and everyone else. One of my friends who very clearly fits into the “everyone else” category, and who was aware of my 9-day exploits in Lexington, asked me a very [...]

Beware (or hopefully, be excited), some changes are coming to Regarding Horses! It’s still going to be the same blog you know and love, only a little focused and a little better. I’ve been feeling a bit like a college student who takes a bunch of different classes for two years before finally picking a [...]

When I found out that my very good blogger buddy Courtney of Three Days Three Ways grew up in Pony Club, I was first exceedingly jealous and second begged her to write about it for us here on Regarding Horses. She was very generous in lending her writing skills to tell us about her experience [...]

We are currently in the middle of two of my most favorite weeks of the year, book-ended by two of the greatest annual US equestrian events: the Rolex Kentucky Three Day and the Kentucky Derby. And besides the horse people, they are tied together by one significant common denominator: Thoroughbreds! With Thoroughbreds the only breed [...]

This weekend was a big one for me; I made my first, albeit small, foray back into the show world after a nearly 10 year hiatus. I showed 4H in Pennsylvania and hunters at various levels throughout middle school and high school, but have been out of the show world since. I’ve always intended to [...]

I recently had the very distinct pleasure of meeting Templeton Thompson and attending a fantastic acoustic concert at the Thoroughbred Theater with her and her husband Sam Gay. If you (like I unfortunately wasn’t) aren’t familiar with Templeton and her music, you NEED to read on, listen, and get to know this wonderful horsewoman and [...]