I went to another show! Yet another reason I'm so glad I have my trailer back. To make this show especially great, it was located about 15 minutes from my house. No more hour and a half trips for me (for now)! It was cold. Way colder than it should be in May. Berry had also been in the last 16 ho[...]
Let's start with a follow up to my whining post about being covered in mud, because I got to have more fun, covered in mud. I may have made a gross, muddy mess of the edge of my arena, but the important thing is now there's a nice ditch around my arena. Hopefully this will be enough to divert[...]
Say Florida Sandy, I've found, almost always throws a big dark bay. Good moving horses. Usually very born broke types. That probably has to do with Private Account, who seems to shine through even generations later. Source I was casually reading the forums today, when this peaked my interest. Sa[...]
Before I moved out to my farm, I had a very specific vision of what my life on the farm would be. Instead, turns out it's a whole lot of this: Recently, I've been just wishing I boarded. Life would be so much simpler! Prepare yourself for a complaining post! First, I have to think o[...]
I've had a fun few weeks with Berry. Springtime meant she had to go into season. But, before that happened, I was happily having a lesson on her and discovered my trailer ramp handles were broken. The trailer had to be fixed, so that meant I couldn't go anywhere for a while. While that stunk, I did[...]
From the author of the acclaimed best seller, Fifty Shades of Bay, and such inspirational posts as I Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Horse Movies, comes a poetry debut of such depth and beauty, you may literally cry in your seat. An Equestrian Life presents: An Ode to Smart-Ass Little Pony[...]
Continuing on with Mary Flood's Clinic, we talked about working the horse next. The first part, Rider Position, is here. I think the majority of us lunge our horses, or at least at some point lunged our horses. I learned just from watching my trainer lunge a few times, and then being handed a whi[...]
This past weekend, I went to a Lunging and Long Lining Clinic taught by my dressage trainer Mary Flood. Mary has all three of her USDF Medals, and was on the USET Long List, and competed in the 1992 Olympic Screening Trials. She's also just a cool, cool lady. I will admit that I haven't taken a d[...]
I went to a clinic at my dressage trainer's this weekend, and before the clinic was a woman riding her beautiful horse. She getting a mini lesson from her, and making me wish I was more diligent about taking dressage lessons...or even practicing dressage. Of course, I took tons of photos so I could[...]
I was given a whole sackful of Effol and Effax products at the Boyd Martin clinic I attended. Up until I started writing this, I thought it was all the same brand name, despite the fact that I kept calling it by whatever product I was holding at the time (I was wondering why I seemed to keep getting[...]