Lagan and Aimee at Equest PC Teams Event

What a treat today was (aside from the 35 degree temperature!) as Aimee and Lagan were down here to compete at the Equest Pony Club teams event at Clareville. They did a very nice dressage test for a score of 23 and best placed of their team after dressage.

XC was hot, hot, hot. Gwen and I hid under the shade of a tree the entire time and nearly died of heat exhaustion so I hate to think how those poor riders were feeling, not to mention their horses! Lages was a star, of course. Clear XC with Amy just taking the one option at the water to be safe.

So, going into the show jumping tomorrow, Aimee's team are in 5th place overall and Aimee and Lages are lying 6th individually (88 competitors - not bad going!). I am supposed to be going down to the show jumping to support but am terrified I will jinx them.

Here are some pix:

My handsome boy Enter at 'A'

Canter
Pretty as a picture
All done - Nice job
Splash down

Roll top

The chair - giving it a little air!

Video

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2009 Sucks Already

A lady backed into the side of my car Monday morning. Naturally, I have to quell rumors of drunk driving, domestic violence, alien abduction, etc. I'm hoping to get my car fixed this week. Just waiting for the new door to arrive.

I just have bad luck. Shit happens to me. Fortunately, my body has been spared so far, but I'll probably break a bone or something this year. I don't mean to be pessimistic on this shit, but I am frequently involved in one scrape or another. It takes resilience to shake this shit off and keep going.

Generally, I am happy as always. I have a relatively no-drama girlfriend and that is going well for me. I am still gainfully employed and always will be though maybe not at my current job. The handwriting on the wall is not good. But I have found that getting a new job is easy as hell. There is no shortage of work. It is the loss of health insurance in the interim that sucks.

I will make the most of 2009, and I will keep on being happy. It is what I do.

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Little Bo Peep

has lost her sheep. But I found them today!

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Silver Fern Captain Courageous

Watch this space! Stunning sport horse in Australia - FOR SALE!

Just set up this blog to advertise my friend Deb's horse in Australia.

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New Sports Law Scholarship

Recently published scholarship includes:

E. Jason Burke, Note, “Quasi-property” rights: fantasy or reality? An examination of [CBC v. MLBAM] and fantasy sports providers’ use of professional athlete statistics, 27 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 161 (2008)

Timothy D. Cedrone, Comment, A critical analysis of sport organization bankruptcies in the United States and England: does bankruptcy law explain the disparity in number of cases?, 18 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 297 (2008)

Walter T. Champion, Jr., Looking back to Mackey v. NFL to revive the non-statutory labor exemption in professional sports, 18 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 85 (2008)

Doriane Lambelet Coleman & James E. Coleman, Jr., The problem of doping, 57 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1743 (2008)

Jennifer Ann Heiner, Comment, Concussions in the National Football League Jani v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Ret. Plan and a legal analysis of the NFL’s 2007 concussion management guidelines , 18 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 255 (2008)

Amy Christian McCormick & Robert A. McCormick, The emperor’s new clothes: lifting the NCAA’s veil of amateurism, 45 SAN DIEGO LAW REVIEW 495 (2008)

Duncan McHardy, Reconciling soccer authorities and European Union institutions: who is best placed to administer governance within the European soccer market? 18 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 105 (2008)

Diana Moss, Regional sports networks, competition, and the consumer, 21 LOYOLA CONSUMER LAW REVIEW 56 (2008).

Richard A. Posner, In defense of Prometheus: some ethical, economic, and regulatory issues of sports doping, 57 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1725 (2008)

Alison E. Price, Comment, Understanding the free speech rights of public school coaches, 18 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 209 (2008)

Clifford Stott, et al., Tackling football hooliganism: a quantitative study of public order, policing and crowd psychology, 14 PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC POLICY & LAW 115 (2008)

Edmund Ursin & John N. Carter, Clarifying duty: California’s no-duty-for-sports regime, 45 SAN DIEGO LAW REVIEW 383 (2008)

Ray Yasser, Warren Spahn’s legal legacy: the right to be free from false praise, 18 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 49 (2008)

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San Barbados - One of my lifetime horses!

Nine years ago I bought a 19 year old semi-retired Eventer/Show Jumper for Nick to hunt. His name was San Barbados and he was by well respected sire of jumpers, Superstud. I had someone I knew look at Bados for me and confirm that he would be ideal for our needs and, within a few days, Bados was here. Bados never really got the chance to be Nick's hunter because I stole him off him when my horse at the time, Murphy, went lame. That, as they say, was that! Bados and I have done heaps together, jumping to 1 metre and generally having a blast and he's spent time with friends of ours being a schoolmaster as well. He's had a quiet couple of years now but he's still loving life and getting ridden semi-regularly.

Bados is quirky, far from perfect, full of his own self importance and can be a real ratbag at times but he is also just about the most fantastic horse I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. He celebrated his 28th birthday on the 1st of January 2009 and today we cleared out some cobwebs and Gwen and I went for a wee ride around the farm on Bados and Strawberry. Gwen is from Bremen in Germany and is with us for a week. It's really nice to have someone around to ride with and I think we all had a lot of fun - unfortunately the camera batteries went flat so only two photos.

Yehar'ing!

Posing

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Nothing increases urgency more than the dire need to shit or piss.

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