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June 24, 2013

gorgeous horses

Posted by Jennifer under CIAT Cuts, horses & driving
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As you may’ve heard, we have our CAA Carriage Festival, here at the Kentucky Horse Park, THIS week.

And I’m working on the August issue of The Carriage Journal and this year’s issue (much larger and more involved than previous issues) of our World on Wheels journal … plus all the usual day-to-day memberships, e-newsletters, etc. So I still owe you some stories, and lots and lots of photos, from our May visit to this year’s CIAT at Cuts, France.

Here’s one more teaser: While at Cuts, we were fortunate to meet a few members of the human and equine families of this spectacular Spanish dressage horse.

This beautiful boy, the off-side horse in the pair (the one in the foreground in this photo), is a member of Fuego’s horse-family.

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June 20, 2013

our third annual festival

Posted by Jennifer under CAA Carriage Festival, horses & driving, Lexington & KHP
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This year’s CAA Carriage Festival — a celebration of traditional turnouts, carriage driving, antique carriages and cars, and more — begins one week from tomorrow. Also tomorrow, I’ll be getting the electronic files for the show program ready to ship off to the printer. And so I’ve been going through the photos I took at last year’s Festival to look for images to illustrate the program, and at least one to feature on the cover.

If you’ve been following the blog for a while, or if you’ve scrolled back through (a lot of) previous posts, you may remember some of these, but I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at last year’s event.

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If  you’ll be in the Lexington area next weekend, join us at the Kentucky Horse Park for our third annual CAA Carriage Festival! (Click here for the full schedule.)

 

June 10, 2013

an American buggy

Posted by Jennifer under carriages / carriage types, CIAT Cuts, horses & driving, Studebaker
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I’ve already posted a (partial) photo of this American vehicle, but I’m in the midst of going through all my photos from the recent CIAT Cuts, and I wanted to highlight this lovely Corning Buggy again. It was made in the late nineteenth century by the Page Bros. Buggy Co. of Marshall, Michigan, and it’s owned and driven by Fiorenzo Erri of Italy. The horse is a Dutch Warmblood.

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The Corning Buggy also reminded me of this Studebaker Goddard Buggy, illustrated by C. Gray-Parker, and featured on the cover of The Carriage Journal back in March 2011.

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June 7, 2013

coaches in motion

Posted by Jennifer under coaching, competitions
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From the recent Devon Horse Show: here’s a four-minute video of one of the (beautiful!) coaching classes … courtesy of our friends at Driving Essentials.

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If the embedded video won’t play on your computer, click here to go directly to it on YouTube.

 

May 27, 2013

all the lovely turnouts

Posted by Jennifer under CIAT Cuts, France
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The CIAT at Cuts is a really, really beautiful event. The setting is perfect — in a park, in front of a chateau — and the dozens of participants (around sixty this year, I believe … I’ll have to double-check) have a wide variety of horses and ponies, and three donkeys this year, put to an even wider variety of vehicles.

I bought a new, much larger, memory card for my camera before we left on this trip, and it allows me to take A LOT more photos than I could with my old card, so I don’t ever have to worry about running out of photo memory at an event. In just four days, I’ve taken more than a thousand photos. So, needless to say, I haven’t had time to sort through them all yet.

Until I can sort through them and give a full CIAT Cuts report, here are just a very few photos from the past two days, to whet your appetite …

These ponies were approaching the second of three stations where they would be judged on all aspects of the turnout (i.e., standing presentation). The judge at this station was Raimundo Coral Rubiales of Spain.

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This pair of ponies was at the third standing-presentation station on Saturday, being judged by Richard James of England.

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This lovely restored vehicle was made by the Page Brothers Buggy Co. of Michigan.

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We saw this pair of horses on Sunday’s drive.

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After the prize-giving on Sunday afternoon, most of the turnouts trotted in a parade of sorts past the chateau.

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