Posted in Horse People, NH, tagged equestrian competition, horse, natural horsemanship, NH on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you all catch Stacy Westfall on Ellen last Friday? I think this is an example of how powerful the associative nature of the internet can be, since Stacy put her new website up in January and by March she’s on a major show:
Of course, I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that Portia de Rossi [...]
Posted in Equine Art & Fiction, Horse People, Teaching & Learning, The Racing Life, tagged equestrian competition, horse, horse racing, horse sports, horses, racehorses, racetrack on March 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Of course the largest font on my author tag cloud in the horse fiction library is Dick Francis, who, as you most likely already know, was a champion steeplechase (or, more properly, National Hunt) jockey before he became an incredibly prolific writer. Having read all of his novels, I thought I had some idea as [...]
Posted in Health of Horse & Rider, The Racing Life, tagged equestrian competition, equine, horse, horse racing, horse sports, horses, racehorses, racetrack, The Racing Life on March 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I love TheHorse.com, if only because it gives me such good blogging fodder:
California Adopts Steroid Testing Levels
by: Debbie Arrington February 29 2008, Article # 11422
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) took a major step towards banning supplemental anabolic steroids with the adoption of testing levels [...]
Posted in Horse People, Reviews, tagged equestrian, equestrian competition, equine, horse, Horse People, horse sports, horses, riding disciplines on March 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In Service to the Horse: Chronicles of a Labor of Love
by Susan Nusser
Little, Brown and Company, 2004
Nusser is an excellent writer, with a great eye for details and the ability to create suspense out of an eventing season. The secondary stories of the showjumping and breeding grooms, while interesting, never take off, and it’s [...]
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