- Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Bouncing about on my toesies’by Hovis on July 1, 2022 at 6:00 am
Dear diary, It appears that mother nature is still in a snit with herself and the rest of us – in fact, I’d go so far as to say she’s in a hell of a mood with “hell” being the operative word here. I’m pretty sure Cerberus himself would go on strike if forced to
- Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘If I sweat any more, the local ant colony is going to be holding canoe slalom time trials down my inner thighs’by Hovis on June 24, 2022 at 6:00 am
Dear diary, I have said this before and I will say it again – there is no doubt whatsoever that Mother Nature is indeed female. Now, clearly the term “mother” might be seen to give it away, but then we live in times when one shouldn’t assume anything, so actually it’s her behaviour where the
- Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am standing accused of trying to break every female in my life’by Hovis on June 17, 2022 at 6:02 am
Dear diary, So, my period of not being in the doghouse was shorter lived than the Government not being on the front pages for their belief that Chardonnay is essential office stationary. Just like the Government, it doesn’t mean the other fella is any better-behaved, mind you – just means I might have taken aim
- Hovis’ Friday Diary: The kingpin is back, while Barbie Boy is in the dog houseby Hovis on June 10, 2022 at 5:45 am
Dear Diary It appears that there is indeed a god – no doubt female, mercurial, slightly unpredictable, and at times very hard to understand, but all powerful none-the-less. And capable of delivering the goods when needed. For the past few months whilst I am still stuck doing walk and trot work in the school, the
- Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘I am more fed up than a republican at a Royal Garden Party’by Hovis on June 3, 2022 at 5:36 am
Dear Diary In this most historic of Jubilee weeks, it’s fair to say I am more fed up than a republican at a Royal Garden Party. For several reasons on which I shall now elaborate. Last Friday mother swept onto the yard at lunchtime with the stressed air of someone who had much on their
- Joanna Thurman-Baker’s dressage blog: foals, girl gangs and swapping horsesby Joanna Thurman-Baker on June 2, 2022 at 9:59 am
Hello all and welcome back! As I started to write this blog, it’s close to 1am. I’m curled up beneath rugs outside our broodmare Seramai’s stable, greatly anticipating the arrival of our next Jameson RS2 foal. She is showing all the signs of imminent birth, so I am on standby to be an equine midwife.
- Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Mother’s growl would have frozen the blood of the grouchiest of grizzly bears’by Hovis on May 27, 2022 at 6:00 am
Dear diary, Well just like the blonde bushy haired barnetted human herd leader, I appear to have got away with my indiscretions of the past week – i.e. jumping on Aunty Emily’s toe in a way that sort of broke it like. She has limped to see me and assured me that she doesn’t harbour
- Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I came down with all 718kg of muscled equine perfection on her foot’by Hovis on May 20, 2022 at 6:00 am
Dear diary, Apologies for my lack of diary last week, but my scribe had the audacity to bob off on holiday and so I had no one to dictate to – to be clear, her typing is the only skill set she brings to the party and from the frequency of grammatical and spelling errors
- Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘I intend to sue the Royal Mail – and want to be paid out in polos’by Hovis on May 6, 2022 at 5:45 am
Dear Diary I am hereby informing you of my intent to sue the Royal Mail for their role in the greatest oppression since… well since ever. You may wonder why on earth passive, mild mannered lickle ol’ me would have to reach this level of action right? Well, I shall tell you. I hear tell
- Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Ditch Mr Flighty – come and ride the mighty’by Hovis on April 29, 2022 at 5:27 am
Dear Diary It’s fair to say I have always known that I was a heavyweight in the horse world, but this week we had it confirmed. Unfortunately, this wasn’t my arrival into the Top 100 list of the world’s most influential people (as in my view it should have been), but instead due to a
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- Plot Twist! Sandra Auffarth Wins Aachen After Flag Rule Dramaby Tilly Berendt on July 2, 2022 at 7:23 pm
Late last night, once all the reports were written and photos edited, I sat down in Aachen’s cozy riders’ bar to have a chat with Diarm Byrne, one half of the EquiRatings leadership, to discuss
- World Champion Allstar B Euthanised After Sustaining Injury on Aachen Cross-Countryby Tilly Berendt on July 2, 2022 at 2:01 pm
We’re devastated to report that Allstar B, the seventeen-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding with whom Great Britain’s Ros Canter became World Champion in 2018, has been euthanised after sustaining an irreparable injury while on course at Aachen today.
- Division Leaders Take Shape After Dressage and Show Jumping at Essex H.T.by Edited Press Release on July 2, 2022 at 10:59 am
The Essex Horse Trials kicked off Friday with a packed schedule of dressage and show jumping at Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, NJ, marking the first time exhibitors have ridden at the historic home of the
- CHIO Aachen Live Cross Country Updatesby Sally Spickard on July 2, 2022 at 7:00 am
Welcome to cross country morning, on German time at least! We’ve got a few hours of incredible cross country on tap this morning — the entry list is so star-studded that it nearly feels like
- Saturday Links from Word Equestrian Brandsby Abby Powell on July 2, 2022 at 4:01 am
At a time when the sport of eventing has lost so many competitions, it’s fantastic to see a once-extinct event be reborn like a phoenix rising from the ashes and then watch it soar over
- USEA Announces Athletes for the 2022 Emerging Athlete 21 Programby Edited Press Release on July 1, 2022 at 7:00 pm
The United States Eventing Association (USEA) is pleased to announce the athletes selected for the 2022 USEA Emerging Athlete 21 (EA21) Program. USEA Young Rider program members aged 21 and under are eligible for the
- Aachen Showjumping Update: Michi Maintains the Lead; Everyone Else Plays Pick-Up Sticksby Tilly Berendt on July 1, 2022 at 6:29 pm
Boy, does Aachen move fast: we were scarcely free of the Deutsche Bank stadium, the site’s secondary devoted to dressage, before the eventing competition moved over to the capacious main stadium with its 40,000 seats
- Michael Jung Leads Aachen Dressage with Faultless fischerChipmunk FRHby Tilly Berendt on July 1, 2022 at 4:07 pm
In perhaps the least surprising moment of 2022’s sporting calendar so far, Michael Jung has taken a decisive first-phase lead at Aachen with his Kentucky champion, fischerChipmunk FRH. The pair scored an exceptional 22.2 in a faultless test,
- Team America Takes Gold in FEI Youth Equestrian Gamesby Louise Parkes on July 1, 2022 at 2:00 pm
It took a thrilling three-way jump-off to decide the result of the team competition at the FEI Youth Equestrian Games 2022 in Aachen, Germany Thursday afternoon. And it was the North American quintet of Mimi
- Volunteer Nation: Three Events That Need Help This Weekendby Leslie Wylie on July 1, 2022 at 1:00 pm
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Karen Izzi Bristing (@karenbristing) Sometimes game faces look more like … bottoms … than faces. But you know what? We’ll take what we can