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Today the horses had breakfast, went for a graze, and then had their Bemer treatments from Jane McClaren While the horses were being pampered and enhanced, Jane Walters and I cycled up to the Rolex Arena to watch Emily show Paddy in the Low Amateur Owner class. It is a beautiful venue, a beautiful day, […]

Another beautiful, cool morning, and I started with the breakfast of champions. Not Wheaties – complimentary horse show donuts! I ate one for myself and one for Jane, who doesn’t eat donuts. The day began with Kris giving Jane a flat lesson on Derry (“flat” means not jumping). The show is HUGE. There are over

Horse showing is a roller coaster – one day a peak, soon there’s a valley. Here we are yesterday (photos by Shawn McMillen Photography) We awoke to a lovely, cool morning and I was reminded, as every day, how lucky I am to see this face waiting for breakfast… Note the pallet ingeniously placed to

We old ladies walked the course for the 1 meter Low Schooling Jumpers and were plenty intimidated. That’s when we began to realize just how long it’s been since we went to a “real” horse show. I thought it might have been better to start back at a less impressive venue. With so many good

Perhaps you were thinking Jane and I had succumbed to old age and given up horse showing. It was beginning to look like we might have come to the end, having been thwarted at every turn. But a few weeks ago, Kris came to see us and knocked off some of our rust. We entered