My finest photography effort yet, a young TB having fun in the brisk morning!
Returning from the southern states always involves cleaning sand out of everything I own, which can be a surprisingly long project. There is something about North and South Carolina, where I can spend four days down there and come back with sand inside my truck, trailer, boots, shoes, toenails, trunk, horse boots, jacket pockets, and almost anything else you can imagine. I’ll find myself shaking out some clothes in the next week or so and lo and behold, sand will be in there. It’s like a plague! I’ll take Virginia clay any day over sand, at least I can scrape that off my horse next time he grunges in the field.
Events This Week:
FEH Championships at Loch Moy Farm: [Website] [Entry Status]
The Maryland HT at Loch Moy Farm: [Website] [Entry Status]
Spokane Sport Horse Farm Fall HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
Heritage Park HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
The Event at Skyline: [Website] [Entry Status]
Feather Creek HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
Woodside International HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
Middle Tennessee Pony Club HT: [Website]
Course Brook Farm Fall HT: [Website]
WindRidge Farm Fall HT: [Website]
Radnor Hunt HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
Las Cruces HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
Kent School Fall HT: [Website]
News From Around the Globe:
We need you to help improve cross country safety! Researchers at the University of Kentucky for the USEA Safety committee are working to create computer models of event horses to analyze their motion and learn how to reduce and prevent rotational falls. They have created a survey to gather the sizes and weights of eventing horses and riders in order to use realistic information in our study to improve safety on cross country courses. All you have to do is fill out this chart. [USEA Safety Committee]
The Virginia Horse Trials is gearing up to host the Area II Championships as well as their first CCI2* this month. In addition to hosting BN-I for championship levels as well as regular horse trials, VAHT has a CCI*, CIC2* and CCI2* for a pretty packed weekend. John Michael Durr has designed the Beginner Novice through Preliminary horse trials and Beginner Novice, Novice and Training Championship courses on the Horse Center side of the road while John Nicholson has designed the two-star, one-star, Intermediate and Preliminary Championship courses on the Oak Hill side of the road. [VAHT Brings The Heat]
The Waredaca Classic Training/Novice Three Day Event and Horse Trial is excited to announce their fundraising efforts to support the Johns Hopkins Breast Cancer Center in MD. Recognizing the impact this disease has had on our sport and in our own lives, Waredaca is excited to launch 3-2-1 GO! End Breast Cancer, our fundraising effort to support the Johns Hopkins Breast Center in Baltimore, MD. While we are happy to accept donations all year, our fundraiser will take place October 20-23, 2016 during the Training/Novice Classic Three Day Event and Horse Trial to honor breast cancer awareness month.
Just can’t wait for Fair Hill International? Luckily for you, the hardworking folks behind the scene make sure to blog about their progress as they are putting all the integral pieces together for the year end championship course. [Cross Country (kindof) Preview]
Brrrr it’s getting cold in here! Time to check out all your blankets from last year and make sure they’re still worthy, and also probably make some replacements. I love this SmartPak Ultimate High Neck Turnout Blanket, as it leaves room for my shark finned horses with big withers, and has great gussets for big shoulders so they don’t get rubs running around the field like idiots as they do in the cold weather. The high neck design helps keep precipitation from drizzling down underneath the blanket, and provides just an extra touch of comfort without completely bundling them up. [SmartPak Product of the Day]