Sunday Morning Lay Up and The BIG PICTURE

Dunrath's Alto and Lauren O'Brien, Rolex 2007

First, lots of little horses in Fallon Nevada need homes.  Lifesaver Wild Horse Rescue in Nevada has over 100 slaughter auction rescued foals and yearlings to adopt.  Most are of mustang heritage, taken from a Native American Reservation land -- although not BLM so they are not branded.  For more photos and more information, click here.
 
Speaking of horses and new homes, Frances Stead's Clifton Promise is for sale.  Not only talented -   big beautiful Promise is a sweet heart too. 

The Equinest has posted a list of dressage and eventing  I-phone apps ranging from official USEF and USDF Dressage Tests at your fingertips to fun little apps featuring photos of dressage horses in action.
Just wish they had some fun stuff for Droid...

More ulcer news:  The Horse reports that, after nationwide scoping, all horses are at risk for stomach ulcers. 

The Horse also reports that The New Bolton Center will host a discussion of the efficacy of the High Speed Treadmill in equine diagnosis.  The March 1 lecture will be presented by Elizabeth Davidson, DVM, assistant professor and sports medicine clinician at New Bolton Center. Part of New Bolton's free First Tuesday lecture series, the talk is open to all but reservations are required as seating is limited.

Eventing Radio Episode #119 is jam-packed. This episode features Chris Stafford and and guest co-host Bobby Costello.  Chris steers a great discussion with new Australian Coach Pru Barrett, and new RK3DE Event Director of Competition Christina Grey - who announced an entry in principle for the Belgian team - a first for the competition, among other firsts.  And, finally,  PRO's Samantha Lendl,  and Marcia Kulak talk with Chris about the exciting PRO Junior Young Rider's Scholarship Program.  Another great episode sponsored by Bit of Britain.  

If you're planning on Badminton this year, book your accommodations now.  Due to the the date change, Badminton Horse Trials now falls on Easter weekend and many private B&B accommodations will not be offered.  A Horse and Hound list of places to stay may be found here.  For more information about the housing shortage visit Horse and Hound.

Ice is hitting the window so time for a nap.

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The Australian Federation has announced a new high performance coach. Wayne Roycroft's assistant, Prue Barrett, has been named to the interim position..  Read more

Horse and Hound reports that Lucinda Green has been hired by the Austrian Equestrian Federation to help their team qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.  Qualification is  going to be a tall order for the Austrians. To do so, they  must produce one of the two top performances at Luhmühlen (25-28 August), excluding the Brits, Germans, and Belgians, whom have already qualified...  Read more

More Lucinda:  Currently, she is in Christchurch NZ for a two day clinic.  If you're in the area today and tomorrow, this is the place to be

H&H also reports that Britain's planned high speed rail line, The HS2 is creating great concern amongst the fox-hunting and eventing populations. The planned location of the high speed line cuts through great swaths of hunting and eventing countryside...  Read more

Obesity is not just problem for our own equine population here in the States. The Horse and Hound reports that the University of Nottingham recently produced a report in which they claimed half of the UK's horses could be declaired obese!  Good to know we're not the only country that tends to keep our equine friends rather on the plump side...  Read more.

British Dressage reports that the organization, along with British Show Jumping, have become shareholders in Britain's Horse and Country Television.  The Dressage organization hopes to promote the sport through the power of TV. We wish there were more equestrian sport coverage and eventing coverage in particular on US television! Perhaps our national's could buy into OWN.  Oprah rides... it's a natural!

British Dressage Maven Laura Bechtoltheimer's blog reports that she took off across the countryside with a few Beaufort Hunt pals, writing that for her horse, it was a great break from the prim and proper dressage yard. It must be fun for a horse to really blow out the pipes across country after all that collected work!

And, unless you've been living under a rock, you know that Paul Schockemöhle and Matthias Rath have been keeping Tortilas quitely under wraps, only appearing once since Schockemöhle stunned the world with his purchase of the all time top dressage horse. This past weekend Rath trotted Tortilas out for a public exhibition Musical Kur. It is early days for this pair but we don't, as of yet, see a great connection between these two.  See what you think...

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