in the clear light of day

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 [...]

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wow, they’re on it!

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 for four major substances during its meeting [...]

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book review: In Service to the Horse

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, [...]

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the dilemma of ‘do’

The barn where I stable my horse is that rarity, a place where riders of different ages and disciplines exist in harmony. While there are only two Western saddles in the tack room (mine being one of them), there are numerous Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, Warmbloods, an aged pony, and even a mustang, and no one [...]

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