Category: Reviews

  • Webinar:Make it a 10 please!

    Webinar:Make it a 10 please!

    The Webinar hosted by Equestrian Canada ran into some techincal difficulties and had a later than planned start. Once it got under way, Ron King ,who was the moderator told us there were 78 attendees logged in. He then introduced the panelists. Brittany Fraser Beaulieu, Megan Lane and Lindsay Kellock. All three are stars of…

  • Let’s talk about diversity in horse sports.

    Let’s talk about diversity in horse sports.

    People don’t go where they don’t feel welcome.

  • Book Review: A Street Cat Named Bob

    Book Review: A Street Cat Named Bob

    A sad day! Bob, the original Streetcat Bob, has left this world and left us all behind. He was at least 14 years old and his owner and human life partner James Bowen must be devastated. So in honor of Bob I am reblogging my original review of the book with the remarkable story of…

  • Book Review: What Happened to Frank?

    What Happened to Frank is the first in the series of Meg Sheppard mysteries written my Vicky Earle. The novel opens with Meg Sheppard getting ready to ride one of the horses she has on her farm.Usually she loves to ride. But this day is not a usual day. It is the one year anniversary…

  • Hand-washing! My Favorite Soap.

    Hand-washing! My Favorite Soap.

    Wash your hands! Wash your hands! Wash your hands! That is the mantra for health in this time of Covid 19. I like bar soap rather than soap dispensed from a bottle with a pump. And my favorite soaps are made by the Equus Soap Company. I have been using their Bit Balm for my…

  • Book Review: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

    Book Review: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

    “The horse is the biggest thing they have ever encountered and the gentlest.”

  • Book Review: Going Steady by Anna Blake

    Book Review: Going Steady by Anna Blake

    Going Steady is a book that will have a permanent place on my bedside table. This book has a series of ‘stand alone’ chapters that deal with horses: owning a horse, rescuing a horse, riding a horse, living with multiple horses, and the subtitle is : “More Relationship Advice from Your Horse”. Practical issues such…

  • Review: Equi-Clean Wipes!

    Review: Equi-Clean Wipes!

    We give them FIVE STARS!

  • Happy Canada Day!

    Happy Canada Day!

    Just like a human athlete he needs support to perform his best.

  • Film Review: The Mustang

    Film Review: The Mustang

    The Mustang is not an action film. It is not a Disney or a Marvel and it has no hi tech CGI effects. It is a small film about wild horses and prison inmates. At least I thought that was what it was going to be. But it is a lot more than that. This…

  • Preparing for the Journey.

    Preparing for the Journey.

    On December 18, before there is light in the sky I will be at the barn to get Biasini ready for his trip to Florida. But the preparations for this trip have already begun. For the last few days I have had him on Omega Alpha’s Immune Plus.  As you may know I like many…

  • Sod’s Law!

    Sod’s Law!

    Tetda came to the rescue.