Tag: Equestrian

  • CWWC :Signs

    CWWC :Signs

    Cee had asked us to show signs for her Which Way Challenge. Here’s my repsonse. All of my signs come from the Winter Equestrian Festival showgrounds in Wellington Florida.

  • Biasini Speaks: I do get work breaks you know!

    Biasini Speaks: I do get work breaks you know!

    Hello Dear Humans, I am doing lots of trot work now as you know. Ma Leueen has injured her back so she is notable to do any trot. So Trainer Lynsey does the trot work. Then Ma Leueen gets on and does the walking work. I know it looks like I’m not doing much but…

  • He looks after me!

    He looks after me!

    Biasini is the only horse safe enough for me to ride at the moment. He looks after me.

  • Monday Portrait

    Monday Portrait

  • Biasini Speaks: I’m trotting now!

    Biasini Speaks: I’m trotting now!

    Hello Dear Humans . As Ma Leueen has told you the vet had cleared me for moving up to a little bit of trotting . At first Trainer Lynsey got on and did a bit of trot with me after she had given Ma Leueen a lesson with me walking. But now Ma Leueen does…

  • Interview: Mother and Daughter Team. Evi Strasser and Tanya Strasser-Shostak

    Interview: Mother and Daughter Team. Evi Strasser and Tanya Strasser-Shostak

    If Evi and Tanya ride on the Canadian Team in the Pan Am Games they would be the first ever Mother/Daughter teammates.

  • Walking, for six weeks,on firm footing.

    Walking, for six weeks,on firm footing.

    I am currently reading “Riding Through My Life.” This is the autobiorgaphy of Princess Anne. She speaks of an essential part of the exercise that must be done to get a horse fit for a big three day event like Badminton. “Starting work meant six weeks of walking the roads—very boring but considered essential after…

  • Rain!Rain!Rain!

    Rain!Rain!Rain!

    “A rainy day is an equlaizer. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You just take what you can get.” Charlie Harvey

  • $500,000 Rolex CSI 5*An Exciting Night!

    $500,000 Rolex CSI 5*An Exciting Night!

    The final ‘Saturday Night Lights’ was a very exciting night of show jumping. There were a total of 40 horses and riders and amoung them several of the best in the world. But the course designed by Guilherme Jorge was full of difficult questions for these riders . The second pair to go Richard Vogel…

  • Lost in the Maze!

    Lost in the Maze!

    I am not the woman in purple lost in that maze but sometimes I feel like I am. At the end of last week Biasini’s right front leg was puffy. I got the vet out and he was jogged . At first Lynsey thought she saw some uneveness in his stride. But the vet said:”That’s…

  • Lens Artists Challenge The road most often taken.

    Lens Artists Challenge The road most often taken.

    This week John has asked us to show our most often taken “road” with regard to photography. Of course mine is photos of horses. Most of these photos are of horses in competition. My subjects are always moving and this ads to the challenge of getting just the right moment. But I really enjoy it.…

  • Biasini Speaks: My Day Off

    Biasini Speaks: My Day Off

    Well Dear Humans after I told you about having to work 6 days a week my Humans; Ma Leueen and Trainer Lynsey decided that as I am a Senior horse of 18 years I do not have to work for all those days. So now I get TWO days off. Today was one of them.…