Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory
Victory: Every day that I get to stand right here. (Passion is the easy part. Living with it is the...
When Your Horse Falls In a Hole.
Horses fall into holes all the time. Metaphoric holes; the really tricky kind that jump up and surprise you when...
Your Horse is NOT Your Therapist.
There's a cartoon of a roadside stand with a horse inside. The sign says, "Therapy." We all smile because we're...
Anthropomorphic Thoughts About Spaying Mares.
He said we don't need to import sport horses; we have great horses right here; we're under-using great mares. More...
Permission to NOT Ride.
Last Tuesday I had an 8 a.m. lesson with a boarder and her sweet gelding. He's had a good summer;...
Listening with Your Seat.
How's your derrière? Is posterior a more delicate word than rump? Our culture has a lot of fanny chatter: too...
Dressage Factions and the Real Reason to Compete.
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to the art of dressage. I love the structure, the fundamentals, the words of...
Goats: A Different 12 Step Program.
It just hasn't been the same since Sumo died. He was my last old-goat-standing and a card-carrying anarchist. He'd been...
How to Love Horses Forever.
We were born this way. It should be part of the Apgar test. It would resolve so much if newborns...
It's About Greeks and Romans. Even Today.
Is there a natural way to ride a horse? Is it possible to ride in such a way that the...
Natural Instinct: The Human Half
The more we riders understand about horse instinct, the better. Instinct is the starting place; a behavioral baseline from which...
Helmets, Gravity, and Human Superiority.
August 1st is International Helmet Awareness Day. It's the day Riders4Helmets started, in the wake of US Olympian Courtney King-Dye's...
Behavior, Personality, and Anxiety.
Can you tell the difference between personality, who a horse is, and behavior, what a horse does? With people it...
Consistency: Doing Math in the Saddle.
Consistency is a great aid but do you know how it actually works? There's an analogy I heard decades ago...
How to Ride like a Kid.
Remember riding when you were a kid? We climbed on top from a gate or a truck bumper. No bridle,...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season
Mud splashing almost always off-season here in Colorado, but this year the pond flooded so many times in May that...
Calming Signals and Equine Gastric Ulcers.
These are two of my favorite topics and I write about them often, but this post is about how calming...
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