February 23, 2012
Hello! Karen Robinson here. You may already be familiar with my writing, either in the pages of Horse Sport magazine or other publications and websites. I am one of those lucky equestrian journalists who gets to cover stuff like the Olympics; while I'm at such exciting events I am exposed to all manner of side stories and controversy, much of which doesn't make it into my articles. The blog that you will read here is the place I can share some of those stories. When I'm not writing articles or this blog, I design freestyles with my company Applause Dressage. I also ride my KWPN gelding Theo in the safe atmosphere of a dressage ring, having long given up the adrenaline of eventing. And when I'm not doing any of those things, I can usually be found traveling somewhere sunny with my husband Jan, and when possible, Dachshund Chorizo.
B.I.A. (Back In Action)
I’m back!!! Just wait till you hear my excuse for not posting last week. The dog didn’t eat my homework, but the dog is certainly involved. Please do not read on if you are one of those people who lack
Welly World Wrap-up
It’s now a week since I took wing and departed from the Wonderful World of Welly. I continue to love the place a little bit more every time I visit, though I do wish that the topographical relief in
Live from the Masters, Part II
I’ve got just a little time before the freestyles start, so will quickly bring you up to speed on the GP Special this afternoon in case you couldn’t get yourself to any internet to watch the live feed. I can
Live from the Masters!
The WDM Grand Prix is just about to begin – the last time I saw so many people watching a dressage warm up on this continent was at WEG. Ok here’s my blow by blow coverage of what’s in the
Aw, Canada
You have probably noticed that I have said very little about the faster-than-a-speeding-tent-pegger exit of our Fearless Leader since it all went down like a lead balloon on January 10th. My silence is officially over. The investigative report I wrote
Oh baby, baby it’s a Wild (Welly) World
First of all, I must apologize to those of you who have been experiencing technical difficulties viewing this blog over the past several weeks. The problem has been partly due to my having pasted copyrighted cartoons into my posts; yesterday
Greetings from the World of Welly
As I sat Tuesday morning, all squished into my cattle class seat on a plane bound for Houston, which would allow me to board another plane bound for West Palm Beach, and looked out the window at a snow-covered Vancouver
(CE)OMG
As you might have guessed from the absence of my usual verbosity on yesterday’s posts, I have found myself at something of a loss for words. But I can assure you the situation is temporary. You would have to quite
Read on
Akaash’s heart-felt and understatedly witty letter to Canada here. For those of you in Canada who care enough to have an opinion, I ask you to make sure you know enough to own the opinion you choose to have. I
You need to read this…
if you are Canadian and a member of EC. Click here Yes, I will be postponing my 2012 predictions in order to blog tomorrow about this piece of truly shocking news, which until a few days ago I could not