Tag Archives: Nations Cup

Forever Young in Brussels

In show jumping, age is just a number. Equestrians are routinely the oldest athletes at the summer Olympics. Ian Millar’s record-setting 10 Olympics appearances (ages 25 to 65) may never...

Sweden Seals the Deal in Falsterbo

It is a veritable smörgåsbord. I am looking at the program for the Falsterbo Horse Show, part of the Rolex Equestrian Series, a collection of the world’s best shows. Falsterbo...

The Trial of the Treble

I’m sitting on my bed at home in Wellington, Florida. I have been tasked by my editor to indulge in what I’m terming “remote reportage,” the job of covering the...

Ooooh la, La Baule

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one can be brilliant at riding a horse or brilliant at love-making, but not both.  “And I don’t ride,” I often add suggestively...

The Wachman Effect

“I think we know the formula… we just need one of the Wachmans in our team," Duarte Seabra of the St. Tropez Pirates told GCTV on Thursday. The Pirates snatched...

Rome, Nations Cup

“McLain.” The old man was looking me dead in the eye. We were both perched on the edge of wide stone steps that formed an oval amphitheater with a wide...