Foto Friday! xx
Saturday, July 28 2012
It is Foto Friday! I love this blog…I think it may be my favorite of the week. I never leave home without my camera and of course my boys, Coolwhip and Popcorn. You may notice Coolwhip is rarely in photos, he is a little shy.
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Olympic Sidelines – Arrived in London!
Saturday, July 28 2012
By Kim MacMillan July 24 th – Hello London! We finally arrived in London late on Tuesday evening, July 24 th , after a panic-filled trip to the Indianapolis airport much earlier the same day. We started out at “O’dark thirty”, as my father calls it, with plenty of time to get to my cousin’s house (she had agreed to drive us to the airport and store our car at her house for the next three weeks) and the trip went downhill from there with a flat tire and a torrential downpour complete with a dazzling lightening show that made it impossible to see where the road was! At one point we had to drive around a downed tree.
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Olympic athlete biographies
Friday, July 27 2012
It’s the final countdown to the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games and the FEI is pleased to let fans of equestrian sport know that full biographies of all the athletes that will be starring in Greenwich Park are available on the FEI website here . This new feature, which is part of the FEI’s dedicated Olympic hub, will be of interest to the media, FEI stakeholders, and equestrian fans worldwide. Each biography contains personal information about the rider, interesting facts and figures, and major results including Olympic and FEI World Equestrian Games, regional games, continental championships and FEI World Cups™.
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Washington International Horse Show Prize List Now Available
Friday, July 27 2012
Washington, D.C., – July 26, 2012 - The Washington International Horse Show (WIHS), is pleased to announce the 2012 WIHS Prize List, which includes several exciting changes to the show program, is now available online . The country’s leading metropolitan indoor equestrian event, now in its 54 th year, will take place October 23-28, 2012, at Verizon Center in downtown Washington, D.C
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SmartPak Introduces Free Returns on All Tack and Apparel
Friday, July 27 2012
If Something Doesn’t Fit, Just Return It – and Let SmartPak Pay the Shipping! PLYMOUTH, MA—July 26, 2012—SmartPak has taken the worry out of online shopping by introducing free shipping on all returns of tack and apparel. Now you can order any sized item from SmartPak online; if it doesn’t fit, just return it and SmartPak will pay the shipping! The only equestrian retailer to offer free shipping, SmartPak has broken new ground once again in making online shopping smarter, easier and totally risk-free.
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2012 Dressage at Devon Prize List Now Available
Thursday, July 26 2012
2012 Dressage at Devon Prize List Now Available Devon , PA (July 10, 2012) – Dressage at Devon is pleased to announce that the 2012 Prize List is now available at www.dressageatdevon.com Entries will be accepted until August 31, 2012. The Breed Division will feature Young Horse/Sport Horse Classes, Mature Horse/Breeding Classes, Handler Classes, Non-Championship Group Classes, the Great American Insurance Group/USDF Breeder’s Championship – East Coast Series Finals, Materiale Classes and Individual Breed Classes (IBC), as well as the Born in the USA Breeders Award. Plus, new for 2012 is the Three Year Old Prospect Championship
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Rescue of the Week – Love those Labs!
Thursday, July 26 2012
Link Link is a 4 year old 45 pound Yellow Lab Mix. He was rescued as a bait dog.
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Words Matter xx
Thursday, July 26 2012
I love quotes…they are food for my soul. Enjoy and send me any quotes you find that are inspiring, motivational, or just plain simple and true for you! I will repost them next week on the Words Matter blog
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Second Annual Atlanta Summerfest Just a Few Weeks Away
Thursday, July 26 2012
July 24th, 2012~ Aiken, SC based Equus Events is gearing up for it’s second annual Atlanta Summerfest Show series taking place August 16th-19th and 23rd-26th at beautiful Chattahoochee Hills (Bouckaert Farms) in Fairburn, GA. Well known in the eventing world, Chatt Hills will host the 2012 USEA American Eventing Championships in September and is owned by eventer Carl Bouckaert who will be competing for Belgium on the Equestrian 3 day event team at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The facility boast an over 8000 acre equestrian paradise filled with established pastures, lakes, and woodlands with ample room to ride all located along the Chattahoochee River
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First Olympic Horses Arrive at Greenwich Park
Wednesday, July 25 2012
The first horses have arrived at Greenwich Park, setting for the Olympic equestrian events at London 2012.
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