Score! Today was a day of great lessons and outstanding shopping. What could be better? Oh yeah. Quiche for lunch. Our morning lessons were with Francisco. I worked on straightness in the canter and especially in the piaffe. I learned I needed to tap Zelo on the butt like I do my Lusitano at home,…
After breakfast the next morning, Morgado’s Commercial Manager (and self-avowed prince!), Henrique, loaded Anne from Australia, Meg and me into his car and we headed north to Óbidos. Since I am unable to phonetically spell out how the Portuguese say the name of this enchanting little village, I looked it up. Here ya go: ˈɔβiðuʃ….
True confession. I was lazy and didn’t write down what I learned in my lessons until later in the week. My mind is more like a sieve rather than a steel trap and if I don’t write it down, it’s gone. Meg, on the other hand, is young and can remember stuff. Be glad Meg…
Meg McGuire was determined to go to Portugal and when she found an amazing price on a non-stop from New York’s JFK to Lisbon, there was no need to twist my arm and the trip was ON! We just knew we could find cheap flights to JFK from our home airports of Atlanta and Memphis….
Like many busy women, Eliane Cordia van Reesema runs on caffeine, passion, guilt and a little sleep. After all, she’s a mother of three, an entrepreneur, a wife, a business owner, and a professional dressage trainer and competitor. “I think we all understand the difficulties with being a mom and a business woman,” she said….
Wellington, Florida – March 26, 2018 – Kim Herslow and Jessie and Betsy Steiner are joining forces in a collaboration of like-minded horsewomen to provide a fun, inclusive, and knowledge-based environment for dressage people and their horses at Herslow’s Upper Creek Farm in Stockton, New Jersey. The Steiners were previously based near the farm six…
Diamante Farms owners Terri and Devon Kane are passionate about supporting up-and-coming dressage riders. Devon rose up through the ranks as a Young Rider and, in 2007, she was a NAJYRC Individual Gold Medalist and Team Bronze Medalist. Now, she is unstoppable in the show ring as an international Grand Prix rider and a USDF…
JJ Tate must be one of the hardest working people in dressage. The Grand Prix rider based out of her own farm in Landrum, South Carolina, in the summer and Yellowbird Farm in Wellington, Florida, in the winter is a whirlwind of energy. She has trained 14 horses to the FEI-level, gone down centerline in…
Terri Kane took an idea she imported from Europe to spread breast cancer awareness and ended up coloring the US Dressage Finals pink. Several years ago, horse show organizers in Odense, Denmark, chose to highlight breast cancer awareness month by providing pink polo wraps to the horses in the awards ceremonies at the dressage show….
Texans are tough. As Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters receded, the Houston Dressage Society (HDS) knew the show must go on and handily hosted the 2017 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional 9 Championships at the Great Southwest Equestrian Center in Katy, Texas, just weeks after the storm left a path of destruction. Competitors passed around stories of survival just…