Life on the Horse Farm

Just want to give everyone a heads up that the farm has decided to cancel the Mother’s Day Dressage Show. It appears that a late starting spring has put a bit of a damper on the number of entries for the show and we have decided it would be better to cancel the event.  Any [...]

Its Show Time folks.  May 1 means we are just 6 days from the closing date for our Mother’s Day Dressage Show. I know it can be hard to imagine that show season is really here.  Our horses were literally in their winter blankets until last weekend.   The sun is shining now though and it [...]

“I want to learn how to ride a horse.”  Sounds like a simple enough statement.  The next obvious step is to find a place where you can take lessons.    Easy right?  Unfortunately, its not always the case. I have a student who is, shall I say, recovering from a bad learning experience.   She’s been paying [...]

Sometimes just the right moment comes along and lucky enough, with the modern technology of cell phone cameras, you can capture it. I was taking a walk over the weekend when I noticed our school horse, Okie leaving his piles of hay and making a bee-line for the stream.  The sun was just making its [...]

If you’ve been in a horse show before the thrill of getting a ribbon is probably gone or at least diminished a bit.  Do you remember though your very first ribbon from your very first horse show? To give our newest riders a chance to experience the thrill of a horse show we organized a [...]