What’s your goal? A friend asked me this earlier this year. I think my answer was something along the lines of keep the body count at zero and don’t get arrested. The truth was it takes your friends to know you and to know when you have lost your mojo not just your car keys.ContinueContinue reading “We’ll Be Counting Stars”
Tag Archives: Dressage
Prep & Perform – Dressage Test Training
One of the things we have been enjoying lately are test riding training clinic combining a thirty minute lesson with a coach followed by fifteen minutes with a Dressage Ireland judge to ride through a test and recieve written feedback. Recently, Barbara and I qualified for the British Dressage area festivals and she and IContinueContinue reading “Prep & Perform – Dressage Test Training”
When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!
Yesterday a dressage judge hit me in the feels. For once, not due to a bad score in what my friend Christa calls “the rectangle of judgement” 😂🐴 Nope instead because they saw through everything else and understood what my horse means to me. We were in a test riding clinic and did a warmContinueContinue reading “When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!”
A Day On Cheer Squad Duty
Yesterday I had the most lovely show day without even sitting on a horse! 😅🐴 Lynn bossing it with her own orange unicorn Freddie I was off being a corporate girl with work in the UK most of this last week so I opted out of competing on Saturday as I’d be too rusty. SometimesContinueContinue reading “A Day On Cheer Squad Duty”
WSI Give Green Light to Emerald Dressage
WSI award Pompidou AF Stallion approval at the Stage 3 inspection at Coilog EC in October 2023. Photo by Sabine Smit foalforsale.com Hanging out with Pompidou AF at the WSI Stallion Inspections One of the things I have been asked about most recently has been the fabulous Emerald Dressage Stallion Pompidou AF (Desperado x FlorencioContinueContinue reading “WSI Give Green Light to Emerald Dressage “
Is Your Vagina Getting in the Way of your Diagnosis?
This piece is one I chose to write for Equitas. I believe its a phenomena that affects many women. When we experience symptoms that affect our ability to enjoy our sport or to have a quality of life we are often written off as emotional / over sensitive / anxious / hormonal. Often this assumptionContinueContinue reading “Is Your Vagina Getting in the Way of your Diagnosis?”
“A tale of two Sammys”
I headed up to Coilog this morning and left the horses at home in the field (rather nice of me I thought instead of them standing in the box ) while I helped out with the running of the show. Id planned to pop back and pick the horses up. I got a text fromContinueContinue reading ““A tale of two Sammys””
Getting There
Oisin on Sunday I love that Louise O’Brien Equestrian Photography takes so many shots as it’s a learning experience for riders and there’s always one you love. There’s so many photos where I could pick myself apart as I’ve so much to work on and practice (honestly sometimes I wish I could wear L plates!)ContinueContinue reading “Getting There”
Dressage – “Don’t Fear to Volunteer”
When we sign up to join Leinster Dressage (or any region of Dressage Ireland), one of the criteria is that wee volunteer to help at regional or national shows. For those of us who volunteer regularly or who have organised and run shows, this is second nature to us and the roles are familiar butContinueContinue reading “Dressage – “Don’t Fear to Volunteer””
Things All Equestrians Do
Ignore excruciating and ongoing pain and stiffness blaming lack of fitness / getting old / an old injury but call the physio, vet and backman at the first sign of mild discomfort in the horse Keep horses teeth maintained twice yearly but avoid our own dentist unless the dental pain is so bad thatContinueContinue reading “Things All Equestrians Do”
Equestrian Reality 