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May 13, 2013

coaching at Windsor

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I now have a bunch of photos from the CAA group’s visit to this year’s Royal Windsor Horse Show. In the three photos below, I believe the first one is of Mark Broadbent, who won the Coaching Championship and the Jack Pemberton Trophy for being the best turned out. The second and third photos are of U.S. drivers: Jim Fairclough and Misdee Wrigley Miller, respectively. It looks like they had perfect weather for the event (unlike last year, when the ground was so muddy from the previous days’ heavy rains that the coaching was canceled!).

To see more photos, click on the link (at right) to visit the CAA’s Facebook page.

May 8, 2013

another trip to Windsor begins

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Jill is leading this year’s CAA trip to the Royal Windsor Horse Show, as she’s done every May for the past twenty or so years.

She sent this report from the group’s first day …

“Tonight the CAA group was joined by several guests at The Christopher Hotel in Eton for a ‘welcome’ reception and dinner. Patti Wolf of Texas (the lucky winner of the CAA trip to Windsor in a contest drawing held last year) was generous enough to host tonight’s champagne reception. We had hoped to be able to enjoy our reception on the outside deck at the hotel, but the weather turned cold on us. So we all got cozy in the hotel’s pub before Grace Yaglou (of Mass.) sounded her coach horn to call us all in to dinner.

“The group was very lively, with our British guests sitting at various tables. We enjoyed a scrumptious meal, washed down with plenty of wine, and three hours later the group reluctantly departed for bed.

“Many of the group went to the show today, and I was pleased to note how many people were in attendance.

“Rumor has it that Jimmy Fairclough of New Jersey is over and has leased a team and a coach for the popular coaching marathon on Friday. Misdee Wrigley Miller (of Kentucky and Florida) is also here for the same event. So there is plenty for us to see and support!

“For the first two days I was here, we had sun and record heat. But now the heat has broken and today was overcast and cooler. I must say, this is more like you would expect, weather-wise.”

… Jill’s hoping to be able to send photos, starting tomorrow, from our guest photo blogger, Finn.

May 3, 2013

our travels

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I don’t have much to offer today, but I wanted to share a couple of travel / blog updates. Jill’s leaving this evening for England, where she’ll be running the CAA’s trip (with more than thirty participants) to the Royal Windsor Horse Show. I’m not going to Windsor this year, BUT we’re hoping to have some guest blog photography by eighteen-year-old Finn, who’s on the CAA trip, which is also his first visit to England.

When Jill gets back from Windsor and the CAA’s Windsor-add-on Coaching in Norfolk trip, we’ll both be in the office for two days, and then A.J. and I leave for almost two weeks in Belgium and France. We’ll be making our first-ever visit to the International Traditional Driving Event (CIAT) at Cuts. As you may recall, we went last summer to a CIAT in Celle, Germany (you can see all my posts on it by clicking on Germany in the blog topics). But the Cuts CIAT is, as they say, the grand-daddy of them all … this is the event’s seventeenth year. And we’re super-excited to be going.

My hope, of course, is to share our trip with you here, but I’m not really sure whether we’ll have much in the way of Internet connections in the small hotels (in really small towns) where we’ll be staying. So we’ll have to wait and see.

March 14, 2013

120 years between photos

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Today’s Glimpses of the World photo (our final 1892 look at the British Isles) shows a view of Windsor Castle.

The book’s caption for this photo reads:

“An hour’s ride by rail from London is this magnificent abode of royalty, the history of which dates from the time of William the Conqueror, [now more than] nine hundred years ago. It is an intensely interesting place to visit because so many different sovereigns have added something to its architecture and left to it still more imperishable souvenirs connected with their reigns. Such are the Gateway of Henry VIII, the Tower of Henry III, and St. George’s Chapel, built by Edward VI. It is in this chapel that takes place at intervals the installations of the Knights of the Garter, that order which includes among its members so many kings, emperors, princes, and distinguished leaders of the race. The most conspicuous feature of old Windsor Castle is its immense ‘Round Tower,’ the view from which is beautiful and remarkably extensive. This tower is no less than 302 feet in circumference and 230 feet high. Whenever the flag [the Royal Standard, actually, not the Union Jack] floats over it, the public knows that Queen [Victoria] is in the castle, as is frequently the case. Like most medieval strongholds, this royal abode is haunted by some gloomy memories. Captives have often languished here in misery. In the Round Tower, for example, the prince who afterwards became James I of Scotland was immured for eighteen years. In the Royal Vaults of Windsor are buried several of England’s sovereign’s, including Henry VIII and his Queen, Lady Jane Seymour, the unfortunate Charles I, and the Princess Charlotte (only child of King George IV), whose funeral monument is a magnificent work of art.

A hundred and twenty years after our book of old photos was printed, I took this photo one evening during the CAA’s trip to the 2012 Royal Windsor Horse Show. Coincidentally, it shows essentially the same view of the same castle:

May 28, 2012

how about some tent-pegging?

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On this Memorial Day, let’s take a quick look at an unusual yet fascinating horse sport that (in theory, at least) was inspired by horseback military maneuvers.

A.J. and I spent part of an afternoon at the Royal Windsor Horse Show watching tent-pegging. He was enthralled, actually. And he’s promised to write a guest blog post about our afternoon and about this obscure sport.

As a small preview, here are a couple of photos …