hunter jumper

1) Barbaro's blowout
2) The outpouring of well wishers during Barbaro's treatment
3) Beezie Madden's nearly flawless World Equestrian Games performance on Authentic.
4) Andreas Helgstrand's unbelievably fantastic Grand Prix Special and Freestyle Performances on Blu Hors Matine.
5) Beezie Madden's wreck on Authentic at the Rolex World Cup in Las Vegas.
6) Karen O'Connor's 14.1 hand pony Theodore the Great coming in 3rd at the Rolex Kentucky 3 Day.
7) Amy Tryon's horse pulling up lame at the same event, and having to be put down a few days later.
8) Watching Brianne Goutal, star of Animal Planet's TV series about the Medal McClay, move rapidly up the ranks of the show jumping world.

Jelly Bean and Reggie are overnighting here tonight on their way from the Tucson winter jumper show back to Colorado. Having guest horses always excites the crap out of Belle, who runs around whinnying with her tail in the air, then sets to work on freeing them, by mouthing the heck out of the stall latch. Obviously Jelly Bean and Reggie (who was champion in one of the jumper divisions) are old hands at traveling because despite Belle's insistence that they must come out to play, they just settled into their stalls and commenced eating and drinking.

Seeing other people's horses so polished and polite makes me think I should spend just a little more time making my guys look presentable. Right now, they're hairy and shedding and dirty.