In comparison to last years rain soaked event, this year clear skies and cool temps made it the perfect weekend for a CDE.  With over 70 competitors the event schedule had Intermediate dressage and cones on Friday and Preliminary and Training on Saturday.  All divisions competed in the Marathon on Sunday.

Hermitage LLC in Goshen, KY owned by Steve Wilson and managed by Jose and Leslie Hernandez hosted a clinic with two time world champion driver Felix Brasseur this past week.  Drivers from Canada, Australia and the United States attended the 5 day clinic which covered dressage, cones and obstacles.

Since I just can't get into Facebook, I feel compelled to post what happens on the farm here.

I thought this weekend was going to be all about work, but thanks to a lot of people helping out with a huge software upgrade it was pretty much done by Friday evening.  So when I got the text Saturday morning asking if I wanted to go flying, I jumped on it.

While looking for horse trailer vents I somehow got sucked into the Google vortex and ended up on a horse trailering accident story, which then led me to US Rider's Trailering Safety Tips.

The tips are pretty good and I know a lot of us tend to jump in the truck and go so I thought I would post them here with hopes that someday an equine or human life might be saved because someone took a few minutes to read this.

http://www.usrider.org/safety.html

Safe trailering everyone!