Harry the Hunter

I just received word that my old horse Harry was Reserve Champion in the Thoroughbred Hunter division at HITS Ocala yesterday. This included a blue, red and yellow ribbon in the three classes. Yay Harry! Yay Hillary! Yay Marylisa!

That's a picture of me and Harry that was included in an issue of Dressage Today a few years ago. My co-worker, Stacey Wigmore, had come out to my barn to do a photo shoot about eventing gear, and she caught this awesome shot of me and my Harryman. A few months later, Dressage Today needed a photo for a story on knowing your horse, and viola ... Harry became famous.

When technology fails you.

I had a plan for this morning.  I was going to wake up early and get right to work.  I knew that I would be meeting the vet later today, plus Thursdays are my day to feed the barn.  Instead I wake up to my phone telling me that my gmail and phone are no longer connected.  Great.  So after deleting and then re-downloading gmail, everything is communicating again.  But now if I open something on my phone, it also opens it on my computer.  Which is really not good.  Because that's how I'll lose track of things.  So instead of actually working this morning, I'm dealing with technology.  Ugh!  

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Margaret Rizzo
President, Mythic Landing Events, LLC
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The view from the MHC Horse Person of the Year Dinner and Silent Auction.
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When I'm not busy working, I can often be found at the barn with Lissell.
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MLE Welcomes New Client!

MLE welcomes Stephen S. Bradley Eventing as our newest client. Many of you already know Stephen from riding with him in one of the many MLE clinics we did with him this year. Stephen has a long list of accomplishments: 1992 Olympic team member and '93 Burghley CCI**** winner with Sassy Reason. '93 US Olympic Committee Equestrian Athlete of the Year; '96 Rolex Kentucky winner with Doctor DoLittle; '03 gold-medal winning US Pan American Championships team member and '05 Foxhall Cup CCI*** winner with Brandenburg's Joshua; '07 gold-medal winning US Pan American Championships team member with From.

You can learn more about Stephen at his web site www.stephensbradley.com. You'll see MLE placing ads for his sale horses and putting together an e-newsletter. We're thrilled to be adding Stephen to the MLE team.

Click on the below links to read recent articles with Stephen:
Gymnastics on a Balance Beam: written by Traci Bryant Donatelli, photos by Stacey Wigmore for Practical Horseman (facilitated by me)

Mastering the Ditch and Rails: written by me, photos by Emily Daily and Leslie Mintz for Eventing USA

MLE.com Gets a Facelift!

This week's project was giving the MLE web site a face lift. Check it out by clicking HERE or go to www.mythiclandingevents.com! There are new pages, new photos, new testimonials. Take a look and let me know what you think!

Special thanks to Lynn for all her hard work on this during the week.

MLE In the News

Check out the following publications to see MLE in action ...

EventingUSA: Melissa Roddy Wright was kind enough to interview me for a story she's doing on sponsorships. It was a great interview and I'm so honored that Melissa and Emily Daily (of the USEA) thought of me to interview.

Practical Horseman: When I scheduled Stephen Bradley for a clinic in August at Oatland Stables, I contacted my friends at Practical Horseman and they jumped on the opportunity to come out and cover the day. The story turned out great, and you'll even catch a glimpse of Mr. Moosetracks jumping through the grid with Holly.

Speaking of Moosetracks ... that's him on the cover of the 2010 MLE Holiday card. Special thanks to Holly (and Moosetracks!) for being a good sport about the antlers!