When I saw the ragtag daily prompt, ‘Brilliance‘ I immediately thought of Carl Hester and the day I saw him competing at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon NC last September. Why did this make me think of Carl Hester? Because he is the acknowledged master of dressage, not only in his native Britain and…
Month: November 2018
Isabel Werth. This is How You Do It!
This is her horse of a lifetime.
Monday Minstrel: Forget St.George. The horse did it!
St. George gets all the credit for slaying that dragon but let’s face it. The horse did it. The horse did all the trampling and St. George just administered the coup de grace. I have always associated St. George with Britain but it seems he also had large following in the Russian Orthodox church and…
The End of the World Equestrian Games. Are the Olympics next?
Do cost overruns, corruption, doping scandals spell the end for the Olympics?
Viewpoint: The Fairies Have Been Painting.
Phantoms or Fairies? Depends on your viewpoint.
Two Steps Forward and…..
Two steps forward and one step back. That’s how it’s supposed to go. But what about those times when you feel that you’ve taken two steps forward and two steps back and have made no progress at all. . That is the circle I found myself in last week. My coach, Belinda Trussell, took a…
Monday Minstrel: Uber or Hansom Cab?
When Sherlock Holmes said to Dr. Watson:”the game is afoot!” that meant they were off to solve a mysterious case. A murder? A robbery? And when the ‘game was afoot’ how did they get to the crime scene? This was long before Uber taxis. In Holmes day the way to get across London was in…
Biasini Speaks: It’s about the Snow!
When the humans are not looking we laugh about it.
The Worst of Times. The Best of Humanity.
None of them said “No!”
FIRE! What would I do?
All I can do is hope and pray.
Biasini Speaks: Who’s in the woods?
I put a some dirt on it to break things up!
Every Horse Remembered – Lest We Forget.
Six Word Saturday.
