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Friday Fashion Forecast: Hauke Schmidt Show Gloves
As eventing season gets underway for 2019, depending on your region you may experience cooler temperatures as you enter at A, halt and salute at X. On those cool morning as you make your way to the...
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Earth Day Equestrian: Doing Your Part All Season
Bridlespur Hunt Club. Photo by Amy Nelson. Earth Day is April 22, 2019! The human impact on the environment has been known for decades, but lately it has become an epidemic. From garbage in the oceans...
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Winning the ‘Chicken Strides’
Have you ever played a game of “chicken?” Hopefully not … but maybe you have seen this madness in a movie, wherein two drivers in 1950s cars drive as fast as they can towards each other, head on, and...
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Friday Fashion Forecast: Voler Caliber Vellum Rain Jacket
It seems like most areas of eventing in 2019 are turning into a rain forest. The deluge we have experienced so far the season has been breaking records all over, and canceling countless shows, cross...
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Catalpa Corner Charity H.T. Honors the Unsung Heroes of Eventing: Lesson Horses
Lesson Horse: Hummingbird’s Sheeza Easy Dream (“Lucky”) with Leila. Photo by J McPherson Photography. There are many special awards each year at Area IV’s Catalpa Corner Charity Horse Trials in Iowa...
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Just Keep Swimming
Photo credit: A great horse show dad named Boyd Mercer. I look normal, right? I mean, as normal as any horse-crazed eventer can be… Well, it’s been anything BUT a normal summer. Or really a normal past...
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Friday Fashion Forecast: Eskadron ‘Pinkaholic’ Collection
If you’re like most eventers, you understand the value of dressage work. But you also don’t wake up in the morning giddy thinking about working on transitions and leg yields and suppling your horse....
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Road to the Makeover: Meet the Dappir Ridge Eventing Team
For 616 accepted trainers, the journey to the Retired Racehorse Project’s 2020 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, has begun! The 2020 event...
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An Open Letter During COVID-19: We Will Overcome
Amy Nelson & Hummingbird’s Mendacium. Photo courtesy of Amy Nelson. In recent weeks we have become intimately familiar with terms like “social distancing” and “quarantine.” Gatherings have been...
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When Your Child Doesn’t Ride …
My son, my saint of a pony and me on a warm spring day last year. Photo by my ever patient husband Tim Wadley. “It’s time to go pony shopping!” I can’t tell you how many times I heard those words, or...
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Product Review: Horze Equestrian’s Equitation Tights
Photo via Horze Equestrian. I’m picky. There. I said it. I like what I like, and once I find something I like, I tend to stick with it until it’s been discontinued or is unavailable anymore. Food,...
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A Return to Volunteering
I don’t know if you can tell or not, but that’s a social distancing shower curtain behind me in the judge’s box. Photo by Michelle Wadley. When the powers that be first announced a return to showing,...
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