We raced ever more threatening skies after our lunch, again at the Red Horse Tavern out on the patio by the main drag through Middleburg. This is the fourth installment in a series about a trip a friend and I made to take in the Virginia Hunt Country Stable Tour. The tour is both a [...]
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This is an edited version to reflect updated information. The changes are in the latter part of the post. Thanks! Let’s say that you’re planning to spend a few days in Kentucky for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. While you’re there, you’d like to sample a mint julep. Or sip wine with dinner. [...]
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Part 3 of the Virginia Hunt Country Stable Tour series On the second day of our Virginia Hunt Country Stable Tour, we rolled out of our Chantilly hotel and drove west on US 50 with the knowledge that we were racing stormy weather. And we had a big plans, too – a farm with endurance [...]
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Promo video for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games Well, with that kind of build-up and historic importance … we had to know that attending an event at the WEG would cost more than a night out at the movies. The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games has released a ticket price list. Tickets go [...]
We’ve had a lunch break at Middleburg’s Red Horse Tavern, and now we’re refueled for a busy afternoon. This is the second post in my series about a recent trip to take the Virginia Hunt Country Stable Tour, an annual fundraiser held to benefit the Trinity Episcopal Church of Upperville, just down the road a [...]
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A pack of happy hounds. Civil War re-enactors playing the fiddle from horseback. A cheese tasting. Horses swimming in a special indoor pool. That’s a minor sampling of what we saw on the Virginia Hunt Country Stable Tour, which has been an annual fundraiser for an Upperville church for the past fifty years. This post [...]
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Remember the old “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” TV show? And its tagline of “champagne wishes and caviar dreams?” That was all so ’80s. Still, we all have “somedays” that fuel our dreams. Like once-in-a-lifetime trips. This is the first in a series of “champagne wishes” horse trips. Since the Dubai World Cup is [...]
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Video of the WF Lipizzaner Stallions – a small taste of the show from a couple of years ago. Perhaps you’ve always dreamed of going to Vienna to watch a performance at the legendary Spanish Riding School. But you doubt that you’ll ever be able to do that. But that’s okay because the World Famous [...]
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For every time I’m riding in a plane that’s taking off, I have a little ritual. Sharing it once comforted a friend. If you’re a nervous flyer, maybe it’ll comfort you, too. Back when I was a newspaper reporter, my editor was looking forward to her once-in-a-lifetime trip to Ireland. She had planned and talked [...]
Here’s another article in our travel series in preparation for the 2010 World Equestrian Games in and around Lexington, Kentucky. A YouTube parody of the “Green Acres” theme song A friend once gushed over the glories of the bed&breakfast inn. She raved over the antiques. The decor. The friendly hosts. The breakfasts. She sighed, “Once [...]
