Life on the Horse Farm

Since I’m on a jumping theme this week today’s thoughts are about safety. It’s one thing to jump at a professional riding center, but what if you want to do some jumping in your own back yard? -Never jump alone.  If you come off and are seriously hurt, you need to be someplace where help [...]

Jumping in the indoor arena is fine.  We do it and plenty of other barns do it too.  But there’s something refreshing when it’s finally spring and the weather is more reliable when we move the jumps to the outdoor arena.  Bigger space means a larger number of jumps can be used.  This of course [...]

We’ve been working on a video project here at Riding Right Farm, and as part of that we’ve come up with some video of a horse jumping from an angle that we’re betting you’ve never seen before.    We thought we’d share it.  Have a look: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGicGp9berY[/youtube] It’s fun to see the rhythm and power of [...]

Sometimes people are surprised when they hear that a good rider has taken a tumble.  Among non-riders or newer riders there’s a perception that once you’re experienced you shouldn’t fall off anymore. Unfortunately, that’s far from the truth.  Sometimes, no matter how good you are circumstances line up against you.  In this video, one of [...]

There’s a great quote out there that goes something like this: “Riding- the art of keeping the horse between you and the ground.” Riding really is just a game of physics.  No one has ever been able to break Newton’s Law of Gravity and every rider needs to keep themselves in balance.  Many things in [...]