Marathoning Fans

©2010 by Nan Rawlins/Equimage®

Marathon was filled with more than 46,000 fans.  There were folks everywhere.  The cross-country course looked a lot like any given Rolex Kentucky Saturday...

Drinking and Driving....

©Nan Rawlins/Equimage®

It was hot.  I was waiting for the Driving Dressage to start after the lunch break. My friend Rebecca was looking at Marathon carts and harness.  She's majorly into carriage driving - in a big way. Many of we eventer types switch to carriage driving when we're getting a little older and realize that we don't heal from injuries as readily as we did in the past. To our twisted psyches,  any truly great equestrian sport is divided into  multiple elements. Since carriage driving meets this criteria and seems a bit safer alternative to your standard combined training, we often switch disciplines.  Although the way these 4-in hand drivers barrel around the marathon course makes one wonder just how safe an eventing alternative carriage driving really can be.

The Bluegrass is Kind of Brown ...

It was pretty brown out there... (Nan Rawlins/Equimage®)

I've been enjoying the Driving competition - the competition but not the grass. It's too bad there's been so little rain in this part of the USA.  The beautiful region of Kentucky known as The Bluegrass is not very blue, or green for that matter. The grass is kind of yellow, brittle, and - well - almost dead.  It doesn't photograph well.  The light bounces off the yellow grass, creating a color cast in the photography.  It tends to fool the eye too.  Makes you thin you have a color cast in your photography when you don't.