World Equestrian Games!

Right here, right now, right in our own backyard is the equine opportunity of our lifetime. If you’ve been stuck in a cave or working straight midnights, maybe you don’t know that for the first time EVER, the World Equestrian Games are being held in the United States of America — right over there in Lexington!

The World Equestrian Games were first held in 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden, and have been held every four years since. Prior to that, each equine discipline held an independent World Championship. The WEG falls midway between the Olympics, and most horsemen feel a win at a WEG is even more prestigious than an Olympic medal.

The FEI (Fédération Equestre Internationale) is the governing body of the WEG, and eight equine sports are contested: Combined Driving, Dressage, Endurance, Eventing, Reining, Show Jumping, Vaulting and Paraequestrienism. The Kentucky Horse Park is such an extraordinary venue, that for the first time in the history of the Games, all eight of the sports can take place at the same location.

Kentucky is blessed to host an equine phenomenon at these games — a rock star, a Secretariat of the Dressage world — in the form of Moorland’s Totilas.

This young black stallion from Holland is attracting unprecedented crowds all over the world. He is doing the impossible. He breaks records, sets impossible new records and then breaks those. He is Baryshnikov, Nijinsky, Michael Jordan and Man O’War all in one. If you can get to Lexington on Saturday night and have $140 for a ticket to see him, then by all means GO, and take me with you!

If you are stuck at home, then go to FEI TV. You can buy a day pass for $12.99, a month’s pass for $34.99 or a whole year of worldwide horse events for $79.99. You can see all the sports, both live coverage and video highlights.

But if you can get there in person, gosh folks, we are so lucky — go!

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