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So, you've built your nice, new, shiney, equestrian website to show off your tack shop, your products or your equestrian services and no-one can find it. Google and Yahoo seem to be ignoring all your hard work and it hasn't been listed anywhere.

You've tried adding it to all those free directories but they never get back to you and keep sending you spammy emails for their upgrades.

So, how are you going to get your site noticed?

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Eventing isn’t exciting enough…

So now we have Express Eventing and... Best of all, competitors will be judged by "celebrities" who appear to know little or nothing about riding - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Arlene (Who) Phillips. .

Express Eventing is a radical new compact version of the sport of eventing, designed for arenas and stadiums around the world. It condenses all the drama and excitement of traditional eventing into just half a day, with all the action visible from one seat.

Sounds exciting and it may just be exciting, but is it eventing?

Or is it just a, made for television, minor celebrity filled, get your money out of your pockets, overpriced, under delivering, waste of time.

The runners and riders list looks impressive with Nicolas Touzaint, William Fox-Pitt, Clayton Fredericks, Bettina Hoy, Mary King, Andrew Nicholson and a variety of other top eventers all qualifying to compete for the £100,000 first prize at the International Cup in 2009. The express eventing website splashes liberal links to the qualifying riders list page, just to make sure you don't miss them.

So, How did the riders qualify?

We have used the FEI rider rankings and past rider performances to determine who should be invited to the inaugural competition.

Hmmm, so based on your current, crowd pulling, popularity then.

There appears to have been a lot of effort put into express eventing and the website is certainly pushing the excitement part. But, an event appears to only last for a morning, the cross-country course is a paltry 1500 metres long and cross-country and showjumping are combined with a quick change routine.

All we need now is the clown make-up and you can see the blooper re-runs for years to come.

I remember getting excited about indoor cross-country jumping after watching a youtube video of it in a Canadian competition, but after paying extra for the best seats at Olympia or some other big event, I was very disappointed to see it was just showjumping over small cross country obstacles.

No... I love eventing and I really, really respect and admire event riders and event horses. I really appreciate the effort riders and horses put in and I love those big three day events.

I don't like the sound of this. I don't see where Tara Palmer thingy and Jodie (get me on any show you can) Kidd, fit in. There's nothing about their participation on the website.

Or where being judged by celebrity judges adds any credibility to professional riders like Nicolas Touzaint, William Fox-Pitt, Clayton Fredericks and the rest of the riders featured on the website. If they ever actually compete.

But then, I checked the ticket prices.... Upper Tier £35.00 and Middle Tier £45.00

Looks like a hope to get it on television,  get your money out of your pockets, overpriced, under delivering, minor celebrity filled... GET ME OUT Of HERE.

Jordan (aka Katie Price) Equestrian Range ?

Love her or hate, rate her or loathe her, as an equestrian it seems young riders want what Katie Price is selling.... providing it's pink.

She recently launched her new KP Equestrian range at a store in Olney.

Florence Wood, an 11-year-old from Raunds, was one of the first in the queue to buy a set of pink bandages for her pony Carlton. She said:

"I love the clothes because they're pink, and I only wear pink when I'm riding Carlton. I wanted to get Katie to sign a picture of me on my pony."

An amazing turn around for a boobs out glamour model, a brilliant piece of marketing or just something exciting in an otherwise dull market. Whatever it is, Katie Price is brightening up the equestrian community this Christmas...

Derby House commercial director Mark Reeves said:

"Katie's range of clothes has been the most successful we have ever stocked.

Personally, I think she's rather obnoxious, doesn't ride well and pink should be banned within a mile of any horse, but when figures show 70% of 14 year old British girls aspire to be a topless glamour model, what chance do you have of persuading them they need to put more work into their riding rather than their bust size.

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localriding.com is updating…

Phew… It’s been a while but it’s almost there.

We’ve been putting together a major update for localriding.com and hopefully, fingers-crossed, we’re almost done.

We’ll have more features, we’ll be more user friendly, there’ll more for our visitors, more for horse riders, owners and equestrian businesses.

We’re on the last leg now, so stay tuned.

Debs……