When I go visit WEF, I generally creep around with my camera. Usually I talk to no one, and just walk, watch, listen and shoot. Of course there are exceptions, like the time that I took so many pictures of these two horses that their grooms heard my camera clicking, stood up, fixed their shirts and said “I’m ready for my closeup baby!” Oui. So through my stalking around the horse show, I try to pick up a few things. A…
We’re getting closer to the final four! Since we had an unusual number of teams compared to the NCAA style brackets, the voting this week gets a little wonky. There’s kind of a semi-semi final? Or maybe I just suck at making brackets, but anyway it’s just for fun so roll with it. Here are the standings so far: Today I will do six rounds of voting to get us closer to the final four. Things should start getting tougher…
You see it in ads all the time. “Horse is a 10+ jumper” “This one is your hack winner!” “His trot is totally a 10”. Those kinds of descriptions usually describe pretty nice horses. One of my favorite things about going to WEF and watching the hunter ring, is that you don’t really hear those phrases.. you see them. You see them everywhere, because I’ve never been to a place with more nice horses in one ring. Say you’re chillin’ at…
Today’s the day where we finish up all these qualifiers! I’ll leave the voting up for about three days and then we’ll get to the semi-finals, woot!! The first match up today is also the final west coast qualifier. Pony and a Payday covers aspects of various disciplines from hunter/jumper to rodeo while The Polka Dot Periodical focuses on Pongo, a beautiful leopard appaloosa eventer/dressage horse. Cast your vote below! [socialpoll id=”2193076″] Moving on to the midwest, we have A Gift…
With this past trip to WEF, I tried to have a game plan of what I wanted to document and write about during my time there. So instead of one giant ALL THE WEF THINGS post, I have a lot of topics planned out with photos to go along. If you love hunter/jumpers or big horse shows, I hope you’re excited to hop along the WEF train with me for a little while! I know I’ve said it before, but…
Now that I’m back in town let’s get crankin’ with some March Madness! Since the real NCAA tournament kicks off this week, I wanted to speed things along a little bit. Therefore I’m putting six matches up today so we can get on to the semi-finals next week! I would like to make a little disclaimer about an exploit someone put to my attention. You can vote unlimited times on a mobile phone. Yes, aka you can cheat. I have put…
You probably were hoping for a really detailed post about all the amazingness in my trip (and it was pretty amazing as always), but I’m here to disappoint. I got up at 3am central time to fly back. A cab driver tried to scam me on the ride to the airport and I had to put on my big girl pants and tell him to GFY. Both of my flights had lots of turbulence and the same screaming toddler. So I’m…
Time for a second round of voting for March Madness! Today we have four matches to get us closer to the semi-finals. I’ll update the bracket as well this week with all of today’s and last week’s winners. First up is a west coast battle between hunter/jumper Wilbur, Ellie, & Emily and all-around jack of all trades Throughbred Adventures. Both bloggers have multiple horses, but will multiple disciplines come ahead in the end? Vote below! [socialpoll id=”2191687″] Next from the…