Dwayne is off for the weekend (Mopar Nationals) and I'm waiting for it to cool down a bit.... bit of a quiet season for us Southern eventers. No shows planned until a schooling show at shady Foxtrack on the 31st! Doing a couple clinics with my fave dressage trainer, Jennifer Baumert, to work on Revi's dressage skills..... that is going well.... and doing gymnastics with the horses at home. Of the three horses I had in for 60 days training, one went home to her owner's farm and hauls in for weekly lessons now that she is civilized w/t/c/small jumps, and the other two are now boarders and take lessons. One, Tide, is starting his eventing career at Foxtrack.

Working student Ashley Nee decamped for Boston but is back in NC now, may start taking lessons again. We have a new girl, Elizabeth, doing AM chores but she's moving to VA in August. Dana Carpenter will be taking over most mornings at least (Dana owns Tide) and we are looking into her converting to full-time on-premises w/s status this winter.

Our young stallion Seattle Jones is doing very well, bred three mares so far and still very well behaved, doing great under saddle, and has developed a killer jump! Vanity Fair, my TB mare who has gone intermediate, foaled a chestnut-turning-grey filly by Formula One and we are working on the logistics of breeding her back to British stallion Future Illusion (by Fleetwater Opposition). My Intermediate Hanoverian mare I am planning on breeding to Formula One as well.

Stormy, who I acquired from the same trainer as Seattle Jones, is finally back u/s after two months off (while I was concentrating on training horses) and is doing great. She is not as naturally bold as Jones, but we shall see. She jumps very cute.