New Zealand’s Nick Larkin

January 27, 2010

I had the best time and learned so much in my clinic with Nick Larkin last weekend. He is so funny and knows his eventing. It was so exciting to be in his clinic on my own rolex bound pony. (The last clinic my pony Mac was still not sound so I rode my trainer’s [...]

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Calais video FINALLY Tess and me

January 26, 2010

This has taken much sweat and effort from so many people, especially Chi, to finally get video working on a computer with many issues. Please enjoy and I hope we have this down now. LEAH

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I am SO sorry, computer broken

January 3, 2010

Hi everyone, I am so sorry that I have been out of touch. Our computer hard drive crashed and we couldn’t afford to fix it so we had to wait for a friend to replace the hard drive. I have MISSED everyone. The hard drive also took ALL my photographs and files. I have so [...]

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Calais and a hurricane

November 12, 2009

I am so sorry that I haven’t posted but my website has been through some kind of upgrade and still is. I cannot BELIEVE that we have a leftover hurricane in November the same weekend as Calais. I think they are having the TD come out tonight and I think they will call it because [...]

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My Grandma died last night

October 19, 2009

I am sorry I haven’t been posting like I normally do. My grandma died last night. I was going to go say goodbye today with my big sister but it was too late. I haven’t been to see her since she went into hospice because even though she hasn’t really been awake I was scared [...]

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Equestrian in a tree

October 6, 2009

My balance in the saddle works for me while doing gymnastics on a tree limb up in the air by the river. The river park is called Pony Pasture. That’s pretty funny. We took Haze for his first long walk after healing from his fractured hip. We went down by the river and it is [...]

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jumping warmup in Charlottesville, VA

September 26, 2009

Here a couple more pics of warm up with Stolle. We had a cross country jumping clinic today and I will tell you all about it tomorrow. Mac is still on the mend so everyone please please think good thoughts for us. Terry says I should wait until the spring to “campaign” him and compete [...]

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Brookhill, C-ville, 3rd on Stolle!!!

September 25, 2009

I took Stolle the Russian curly to Brookhill’s combined training event. We warmed up beautifully in dressage but fell apart when we competed. My reins were too long, Stolle gets nervous in the dressage arena and I started to fall apart too. He is such a wonderful and talented horse but he needed me to [...]

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Haze my dog is HOME!!!!

September 14, 2009

He seems so pitiful. They can’t figure out how to wrap his leg up and to his body and something goes wrong each time. So now he just has to stay on a big fluffy bed in a little tiny bathroom so he won’t walk or jump with his hip. This weekend they tried a [...]

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1st time fox hunting

September 13, 2009

I had so much fun. This is what they call cubbing, teaching the puppy hounds how to follow the pack. We galloped and jumped and it was a blast. We lost half the dogs at one point and had to round them up. I rode Epi and he and I were both “juniors”.:-) Of course [...]

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