Eye Candy Jumpers

What Happens in Dinard... (Rant Edition) “Just don’t have a temper tantrum,” says my editor.  “I doubt I can avoid it,” I reply. “I’m so petty.” I’m at the Jumping Dinard in Bretagne (Brittany), France. The whole place is decked out in the most glorious shade of pink, surrounding the arena, a delicious green bowl. I stan...

Richie Vogel and United Touch S Ride into the History Books with Record Setting European Championship Score They’ve done it—Richard Vogel and the freak-of-all-freaks United Touch S have taken the gold in the European Championships with a history-making winning score of 0.01! That translates to five clear rounds over five days, in an exhibition of speed, power, accuracy, and endurance hardly matched an...

Christian Kukuk Gets Real and We're Here For It “How do you get all these quotes?” I ask my editor, who I know is sipping coffee with a view of a rocky shore, a place where the blue of the sky exactly matches the blue of the water and isn’t anywhere near an equestrian facility.  I had just read an article, a beautiful thing, […]

Ooooh la, La Baule It is a truth universally acknowledged that one can be brilliant at riding a horse or brilliant at love-making, but not both.  “And I don’t ride,” I often add suggestively when I share that observation. Because the truth is, I made that saying up and am the main source of its promulgation. Bu...

Windsor, Day Three: Raise the Stakes Finally, the day dawned at the Royal Windsor Horse Show when the stakes were high enough. I think about “stakes” a lot. In sport, and in life. In the movie The Hours, Virginia Woolf’s husband asks, “Why does someone have to die [in the book she is writing]? The answer: “Someone has to die ...

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What the WEC?! Week 11: The Money Shot I was lying on my stomach on the hotel bed paging through photos on my computer, tears streaming down my face. I was crying because horses are so beautiful. I texted someone, snot on my face: “Why are horses so beautiful?” “Horses are beautiful!” he replied. “No,” I texted between sobs. ...

What the WEF?! Week 10: Tickle My Tofu “Your brain is three pounds of Jell-O.” The doctor was speaking, holding a colorful model of a human brain in her hands. Is my brain three pounds of Jell-O? I google it: “Yes, the brain has a soft, squishy, and gelatinous consistency, often compared to Jell-O,” but “some people also compar...