On the Line

I will blog more, I will I will I will.

I’ve been wearing so many hats lately I’ve forgotten what my own head looks like. In the midst of being a writer, riding instructor, clinic organizer, office worker and world traveler, blogging has fallen to the wayside, just a bit.

Not that there hasn’t been anything to blog about – last week I went to Thunderbird Show Park in Vancouver, Canada and watched Rich Fellers lope around a 1.20m class in the rain. Rich is a great rider and is super friendly, but when I wrote about him recently the man did not waste his breath on lengthy answers to my questions! With his many successes he’s not so difficult to write about, but all the same, it was a challenge filling out the word count around his quotes. The article is in Sidelines’ May issue if you want to see how I did.

I was super surprised to also see Pablo Barrios at Thunderbird less than a week after he was making headlines by winning everything under the sun in Kentucky. He was on his way to Spruce but man does he get around! Pablo is on one of the world’s greatest winning streaks, and when I met him at WEF in March, the atmosphere at his barn was all party-party-party. The celebration continued over the weekend when Pablo won the Sunday grand prix at Thunderbird.

More soon! For now I leave you with a friend I made while in Mexico for my brother’s wedding last month; this predictably pathetic looking trail horse was said to be 12 years old. . . usted seguro???

Oh, the life of a trail horse! Pobrecito!