The website for the 2012 Alltech National Horse Show is up. No Adult Jumpers. The prizelist isn’t available but none last year AFAIK and the intro blat doesn’t mention it as a new event. That means I will either have to jump higher or the show will have to get bigger. We will ignore theContinue reading “Show Calendars & Sympathetic Magic”
Category Archives: Horse Shows
What’s In Your Wheelhouse?
I’ve been thinking about ancillary skills and how they affect riding. In Thursday’s post, Cur Tales talked about music [Talent]. Such pursuits have been on my mind latently. At the Alabama Phoenix Festival [FF: Push, Ghost, Yeller], I met the artist who draws The Devil’s Panties and discovered the world of webcomics. Now I wantContinue reading “What’s In Your Wheelhouse?”
Bucket List – Accomplished
To counteract the thread of greed that runs through my Bucket List, herein a list of things that would be on my bucket list if I hadn’t already done them. (What to call it? Filled bucket has stall-cleaning overtones. The anti-bucket lists in the ether where all things that people had no intention of everContinue reading “Bucket List – Accomplished”
Bucket List
Avventura was nice enough to like a post about Rodney’s exercises [Blow Winds]. One of her standing pages is a bucket list. Since I have already gone over my competitive goals [Where To?], here is my non-competitive equine bucket list: + Compete abroad. Not so much as a competition goal, but more as a sliceContinue reading “Bucket List”
Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.
The reason it is easier to back up a firetruck than a horse trailer. I want these on my truck. Previous FF Posts New Toy Here’s Your Ticket, Pack Your Bags Manic Monday [Can you name that movie?]
Whole New World
Checked out a new style of show yesterday. Trail + Cross-country + Agility = Obstacle Challenge. A few of the Obstacles: Rodney can so DO this. OTOH, yesterday’s competitors where western horses or Paso Finos. I’ll have to make sure the table is heavyweight rated before Rodney climbs on. Have you ever Obstacled?
Yin or Yang?
Day two of my perseveration on horse shopping. The first step to buying is knowing what you want. I don’t. Back when Previous Horse was retired and Mathilda was a sprightly, young 20-something, our goal was to gradually locate replacements for both horses. As I said back in January, “This has been the plan allContinue reading “Yin or Yang?”
Virtual Brush Box 