Relaxed & Forward Blog

Dressage: A Relaxed and Forward Ride.

The foundation of Dressage for the rider/horse is rhythm. I define that as a balanced combination of relaxation and forward....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers

This week the assigned theme is Numbers. Four dogs, one sofa. Bad math. (Howdy, Tomboy, Hero, and Finnegan) and Anna,...
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Equine Gastric Ulcers… and Sage.

I'll call her Sage. Sage was a thoroughbred mare with classic elegance. A solid bay with a long neck and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Water

Weekly Photo Challenge: Water Infinity Pond with fillies. Here on the flat, windy, treeless prairie of Colorado, waterfront property is...
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Who Am I This Time?

Who Am I This Time is the name of a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut and made into a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Tiny

Weekly Photo Challenge: Tiny "Tiny? Are you kidding? If you adjust my size to human size, this is the equivalent...
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A Different Kind of Runaway.

It has been a scary week in our horse world. Everyone is aware by now that there is an outbreak...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Red

Weekly Photo Challenge: Red Red Mom, Red Baby. It was three years ago exactly, under the very same full moon... The...
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A Lesson Horse is Born….

… and Grace gives herself a promotion. Dressage borrows lots of language from ballet -after all, we are the dancers...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wildlife

SWANS... for your cultural edification. (WordPress challenge: Wildlife.) WordPress challenges dovetail perfectly with Infinity Farm, It's like they make them...
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Therapy Animals -Every One.

I was being half-mauled by a terrier. I was running an errand in an urban office and the dog’s owner...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Round

This week the photo challenge is ROUND. We put round white caps on fence posts to make them safer for...
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Donkey Church

“Do you ever wake up and wonder how your life got you to this day? Oh well, no time to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: One

ONE Let the counting begin... Anna Blake, Infinity Farm.
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The 'Other' Mother’s Day.

The nightly news let me know gas prices are up. Wars and natural disasters to blame. I don’t pretend to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines

Between the Lines The weekly photo challenge this week: Lines. When I started this challenge through Wordpress, I gave myself...
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Dear Drama Queen-

Dear Drama Queen, I understand getting upset. You have so much passion and desire for riding. I know how much...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Old

This week's photo subject: OLD. This horse blanket is old -24 years and 5 horses old. My youngest horse is...
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