“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be...” – Robert Browning The stables where I work had three senior dogs, all showing various signs of aging just like many of us stablehands. It seems like all of us here have either a limp or a slightly s...
'Tis the season to be reading! That joke's a bit late, huh? Well, whenever it is that you get around to reading this little ol' blog post, you should be reading. You know it, I know it, your horses know it. That's what they whinny at you from across...
If you give a woman a horse, she will want some boots and a hat, and a saddle to ride in. She will want to ride her horse all the time, so she will also need a watch to remind her to tell people she will be late coming home from the barn. She will w...
I remember the first time I saw him. He was skin and bones. He had patches of fur missing. His body was scarred from who knows what. His back swayed with age and the grey on his face told me that he had been alive for many years. I rode into the ar...
Passion, Pain and Horses Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! My dad, riding ahead of me with his friends, doesn’t hear my call. But Danny does. Danny is my dad’s Appaloosa. Danny turns and starts galloping back towards me, my dad tries to get control but can’t. M...
I always found it a little magical how a horse will know if you don't believe. In yourself, in it ... It doesn't matter, in the end. If you don't put trust in yourself and in the horse, it's going to know ... and, it's going to let you know that it knows...
As a trainer, I believe it is rather important to be a great example for our students and clients. They look up to us, often mimic and act similar to us. The younger students, kids, and adults around the barn, or even others on the show grounds see them...
Almost everyone who owns and loves horses has spoken to a non-horse person only to completely lost their interest as you begin to talk about your equine friend. Sadly, non-horse people do not grasp the joy we derive from our equine companions. Here are...
I would just like to emphasize how generous it is for our horses to let us ride them. These incredible creatures, despite how domestic they've become, are prey animals. The fact that they trust us and allow us to sit on them at all is incredible. I think...
About a year ago a friend and I were talking about what we could do with our love of horses. We both had been hurt by someone that took advantage of our love of horses; we talked about needing to redirect our passion. That's when I came up with the idea...
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