The whole time I was at the World Equestrian Games I kept thinking how wonderfully generous horses really are; allowing us to take them over crazy large solid jumps in cross-country eventing, around huge show jumping Grand Prix courses with impressive heights and spreads multiple times in one wee
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10/12/2010
On Monday, October 11th in the wee hours of the morning I headed to the Blue Grass airport in Lexington to go back home. As happy as I was to return to see my daughter and husband, it was a bit sad that this much anticipated, international large scale event had finally come to a close. Spendin
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10/12/2010
Wonderful artistic displays of horses where in all shapes and forms in the Alltech Experience area. This one is my favorite - decorated with sea shells - gorgeous! Made from large vines Fancy fixture centrally located in the Alltech display area. t Numerous colorful models like this one can
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10/10/2010
It was a scorching day on Saturday for the driving marathon (in the mid 80s) but it went without a hitch. Only a few minor mishaps occurred, the usual leg over a tracer here and there. I got to try my hand at timing at obstacle 8. There were about 13 of us helping out at this one obstacle not
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10/10/2010
It was nice to see a developing country in horse sport, the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, take the silver medal on Saturday night at the Final 4 jumping competition. This is where the Top 4 individual finishers ride each other’s horses in a total of 4 rotations. They each have 3 minutes to ride the
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10/10/2010
For those of us who appreciate artistic riding displays, there are shows with baroque horses that are fun to watch in the Equine Village; far away from the sporting venues but worth the walk.
10/08/2010
Traipsing across the entire show grounds yesterday, I made my way up to the driving stadium to take in some driving dressage just in time to see Chester Weber’s test. Ahh, he makes it look so easy making circles with only one hand holding on to the reins. The “grooms” (I am sure there is anot
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10/08/2010
The weather on cross country day was nearly perfect. The crowd on the course was on par with what CCI4* Rolex usually enjoys but there were a lot more people on the paved paths. The water jumps were quite spectacular and I witnessed well ridden rides over them thankfully! I had the pleasure of
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10/03/2010
On Sept 24th, a very hot and windy day, I arrived in KY to be part of the World Equestrian Games 2010. This is the first time this huge equestrian event is taking place in North America. I have been helping out at the Show office which is in the center of the venue. It is where the Chefs de Mis
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10/03/2010