A Groom's Perspective

Homeland Security and HITS Thermal

What do Homeland Security and the HITS Thermal Horse Show have in common? The short answer: me, but the long answer is much more entertaining! 

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What I Learned in 2012 (As Told through the Memory of my Instagram Account)

The new year is all about reinvention. It’s a time when people make resolutions, bare their souls to their friends and family about their shortcomings and vow that this will be the year that everything changes.

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It's Time to Do What's Right for the Good of the Horse

Stopping by my local Starbucks on Friday morning, I was left with a bad taste in my mouth.

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The Gift

For me, Christmas has always been a favourite time of year. Even as a child I don’t think it was ever a season about coveting endless lists of toys, but truly about the magic, merriment and miracle of the season.

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Shown Up by Shania at the Las Vegas National Horse Show

How does this happen? Country superstar Shania Twain and I pull into Vegas on the same day, and she steals my thunder AND my idea of riding a horse through the streets and waving at all the weirdos on the strip.

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Rohmer the Comber: Morning News Television Star!

A couple years ago I received a phone call offering to fly me down to Wellington, Florida to groom at the Winter Equestrian Festival.

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Will to Win: The Masters Remembers Hickstead

Sunday morning of the Spruce Meadows Masters. For me it’s a day that’s comparable to Christmas, and as I hurried off to take in the day’s action I couldn’t help but feel a little tug on my heartstrings.

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One Lamazing Day at Spruce Meadows

It doesn’t always happen, but sometimes, I have amazing days, and to make use of an over-used pun in show jumping, my day was Lamazing. It doesn’t take much for me to be happy, I’m a pretty go-lucky kind of girl, but if you happen to be Eric Lamaze and be slightly in my presence I’m going to have to classify the day as incredible. It’s just the way it is.

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