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It’s getting to the time of year when everyone is reflective. How could you not be? It’s a non-championship year (Olympic Games, World Equestrian Games, and Pan Ams all took the year off) but it seems like we have had a remarkable year of...

Published 3 Dec 2009 8:52 AM by JOANIE

Filed under: Eventing, dressage, Phillip Dutton, Will Simpson, show jumping, AQHA World Show 2009

I Wish We Had Michael Phelps on Our Team

Gina winning the individual silver medal was remarkable. McKinlaigh was amazing. They are such a cool partnership… Gina is a cool customer and McKinlaigh jumps with the best of them. Their tensest moments were at the horse inspection when McKinlaigh was...

Published 14 Aug 2008 12:34 AM by JOANIE

Filed under: Olympics, Eventing, Hong Kong, China, Silver medal, Phillip Dutton, Gina Miles, McKinlaigh, Connaught, Courageous Comet, Becky Holder, Karen O'Connor, Mandiba

Good for the Sport...

Cross country day knocked everyone around a little bit… it certainly didn’t go as we expected. In just a couple of moments our medal hopes were dashed. I can’t remember the last time I was at an event when Amy fell off. Becky and Comet are one of the...

Published 11 Aug 2008 11:50 PM by JOANIE

Filed under: Olympics, Eventing, Hong Kong, China, Phillip Dutton, Connaught, Poggio, Amy Tryon, Courageous Comet, Becky Holder

Has Anyone Seen Sleep

Another 5 a.m. wake-up call this morning has meant for not a lot of sleep… but watching Mandiba grow up in the dressage ring was well worth the missing z’s. What a cool little horse. Karen was thrilled with him, his flying changes were awesome and he...

Published 10 Aug 2008 10:42 AM by JOANIE

Filed under: Olympics, Eventing, Hong Kong, China, Phillip Dutton, Connaught, Courageous Comet, Karen O'Connor, Mandiba

Eventing Dressage, the Market, etc

I forgot two of the most exciting parts of the trip so far… Sara Ike and I went on a food shopping adventure to get food and nosh for horses and grooms back at the stables. Mr. Lau (our trusty driver) finally realized that while, we may be good at what...

Published 9 Aug 2008 5:27 PM by JOANIE

Filed under: Olympics, Eventing, Hong Kong, China, Ravel, Brentina, Phillip Dutton, Gina Miles, McKinlaigh, Poggio, Mythilus, Sapphire, Authentic, Neruda

And They're Off

There was not quite as much rain today, the weather is fine. Not too hot but we haven’t seen the sun yet. The Olympics are like going to the first horse show of the year… you see all the people you haven’t seen since the last major competition and it...

Published 8 Aug 2008 12:43 PM by JOANIE

Filed under: Olympics, Eventing, Hong Kong, China, Phillip Dutton, Gina Miles, McKinlaigh, Connaught, Mark Todd

And So It Begins

After numerous requests… here it is blog number one! That day I lost somewhere over the Pacific would come in really handy as I hit the ground running and am now finally catching up. I arrived on Monday night in Hong Kong after five days at our North...

Published 7 Aug 2008 2:07 AM by JOANIE

Filed under: Eventing, Hong Kong, China, typhoon, Ravel, Steffen Peters