United States Eventing Association

It’s Saturday night and like most college students with horses, I am at home, doing work for an Astronomy lab. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I will be skipping this lab because I will be at the AEC! Creating a scale model of our Solar system is tedious work, and I much rather be packing.

These past few weeks have flown by as Ollie and I prepare for our first Preliminary outing at Loudoun HT and prep for the AEC. So what’s new? The latest and greatest discovery is that Ollie loves to swim. Not in a fancy swim-center but in a good, old-fashioned pond. I have become an expert at grabbing mane and my father now refers to Ollie as “Das Boot” (which is a really excellent movie if you haven’t seen it).

This past weekend Ollie and I competed in the Cosequin Stuart Horse Trials in Victor, NY as prep for the AEC. Our next and final outing before going to Georgia will be Loudoun Hunt Horse Trials in Leesburg, VA (which is thankfully seven hours closer to home than New York).

When the USEA kindly asked me to write a blog about my trip to the Land Rover/USEA American Eventing Championships, I had to figure out where exactly they are this year. For the sake of my fellow ignorant eventers, the AEC are September 9-12 at Chattahoochee Hills on Bouckaert Farm, in Fairburn, Georgia. While looking this up it struck me that, in order to blog about the AEC, I actually have to go!