Here’s our final post from Rio de Janeiro and the 2016 Olympic Games. If you missed them, go back and read part one, where we look at the eventing competition and some of the scary events that took place...
According to Facebook's translation of the Norwegian description of this video, it says:
The king of the forest was in a bad mood today and made sure we had to take a detour home.
Which means they made it home. So...
Photo: Jim Champion/CC BY-SA 2.0August 18, 2016
Dear Diary,
I’ve been reading back through my past diary entries and I found the ones I wrote as poems. I laughed and laughed and laughed, and then I read them to Goldie and...
It got dark really fast in the woods that day. A million leaves overhead danced and shook in an onslaught of soaking rain. Thunder rumbled in the sky beyond the swaying canopy. My horse, slick with sweat, rocked back...
It’s always nice to have portraits of your family members, and your pets, too! A good face portrait of your horse can be a great keepsake, wall decoration, or workspace inspiration. But achieving good headshots of equines can be...
Photo courtesy Road to the Horse.Nick Dowers (and his trademark mustache) became a household name when he was named the 2016 Road to the Horse champion in Lexington, Ky., in March. The fourth generation rancher from Dyer, Nev., brought...
My life changed on a day that started out like any other, and as a result, I will never be the same.
I’ve been riding since before I was born: My mother worked on a cattle ranch and rode when...
Are you planning to bring your significant other or non-horsey friend on an exotic, last-minute trip to the barn or horse show this season? If so, they might be well-served by learning the meaning behind some of the basic...
Beezie Madden and Cortes 'C' competing at the Kentucky Horse Park in 2012.To get to the Olympics with a horse is a staggering accomplishment: Having the right horse. Making it through the Olympic trials catastrophe-free. Peaking in fitness at...
In the previous post in this blog, I talked about some of the ways various non-horsey media outlets attempt to talk about equestrian during the Olympics. One type of post I’ve been willfully ignoring is the anti-equestrian rage-baiting posts...
