It's hot at the EQUATOR...

Gentlemen, start your engines... This sexy young thing did just that, swaggering in to the ring like he owned it. This is Michalow's rising superstar colt Equator (QR Marc x Ekliptyka) who just owned the place with his entrance. All eyes were on him and at the end of the show, so was the Silver Junior Male Championship, just behind the equally stunning Pomian from Bialka. Watch out world!

Poland, magnificent Poland...

The Great Horsefly Films Grand European Tour Rewind begins where else? Our home sweet home away from home, Poland! I could wax rhapsodic for days on end of course, but Poland always feels like a bit of a homecoming-- my heart splashes just a little bit more when I'm here and August for the 2012 edition of Pride of Poland and Polish Arabian Horse Days was no different. I'll distill all the magic down to incredible friends-- including Melissa Feather who came for the first time and ate it all up with a passion which we knew she would!-- and just the most magnificent horses anywhere. It is hard to overstate just how transformative Poland is in every way for those who love horses... Although there were endless superstars in the ring, one moment was so historic and fraught with emotion that if you weren't moved, you had a heart of stone. Pianissima's retirement ceremony, the words ringing out over the grandstand that this was the last time she would ever appear in a showring, a standing ovation crowd, grown men weeping, ME weeping (that's not hard!)Director Trela taking the lead and walking with her one last time around the arena, squeezing just a little more magic for all time-- that is the stuff of legend my friends and I will never forget it. That she lives happily each day as Janow's queen is just the sweetest icing. See you in Spring, Penny!

A man and his horse. Like I said...

522 hours of mindblowing creativity with horses

I won't even address my blogging absence except to say that we have been beyond busy, beginning with the aformentioned 23 days (522 hours) in Europe. It's backtracking I know, but a journey that began in our beloved home away from home Poland for Arabian Horse Days and then moved to exotic and far flung locales such as the islands of Skyros and Corfu, Thessaloniki, life-affirming stops at the Acropolis and Meteora, a visit with the ravens at the Tower of London and our very own run-in with the Olympic torch, tea at Kensington-- well heck, isn't that worthy of a bit of rewind? I shall attempt to recreate some of these adventures over the next few weeks. Did I mention there are horses involved all along the way? Of course there are, we're Horsefly Films! ( Although that did not persuade the fine people of Kensington Palace to let us bring in any equines. Just tea. And scones. And cream. Sophie, they say you have to leave that stallion outside...) So, off on the European backtrack we go... :) Jen