Watch and Learn
I disagree with anyone who says you can’t learn how to at least ride a little bit better from watching video. I’m a visual learner, so I know I can translate what I see into
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Riding and the ‘R-Factor’
It isn’t often that a corporate seminar you’re forced to attend as part of your day job actually ends up applying more to your life outside work than it does at the office. Recently, as
...» Read More!Lessons Learned: Working With the Conditions
Adult amateur event blogger Ainsley Jacobs has been chronicling how she finds the takeaway lesson from the good, the bad and the ugly in her equestrian experience. Her horse JJ has been rehabbing from a
...» Read More!Make It Work (and Work, and Work, and Work)
As equestrians, we are notoriously busy. Whether riding is your main job or something you do on the side, we are all busy. Riding is also a sport that demands a lot physically from both
...» Read More!Always Get Back On
When you fall off your horse, your trainer will always tell you to get right back on and do it again. George Morris has said you either go to the hospital or you get back
...» Read More!Finding the Balance
Having goals is important. Whether it’s to someday ride in Rolex at the four-star level or to finally perfect that walk to canter transition, goals keep us focused. But when do goals stop being goals
...» Read More!Making It to the Makeover: The Battle
Yesterday, I pulled up to the barn and waited for my student like usual. I expected to see her walk in the from the field excited for her first lesson back and ready to jump.
...» Read More!Silencing Doubt
Last Saturday morning, on an unseasonably warm day in February, I hooked up my trailer and tried not to think about what I was doing. I loaded my 17-hand dragon of a Thoroughbred and hauled 10 minutes
...» Read More!The Definitive Eventer’s Guide to Beer
There’s a little blog about matching wine to your horse problems going around. I read it. And I get it. But really, eventers are beer people, aren’t they? So when you have a rocking cross
...» Read More!Keep Fighting the Fight
Jhett Jenkins is a 16-year-old Area IX eventer who rides with the Flying W Stables out of Wilson, Wyoming. We met Jhett and her horse Street last year. Street had a rough past and was
...» Read More!When Good Sellers Go Bad
We’ve all heard horse sale horror stories. The number of blatant lies being told, the amount of deceit and deception running rampant in the horse industry is appalling. Maybe it happens due to pure neglect, maybe
...» Read More!Basics of Baby Jumping
Heels down … up in two point … hands pressed into a crest release, knuckles white around the reins. Eyes up … remember to breath … trot, trot, trot … and pop over the fence.
...» Read More!Making It to the Makeover: A Month (of) Down (Time)!
A month has come and gone since Java officially started her life as an OTTB. And in true Thoroughbred Makeover form, it has flown by in the blink of an eye. Thirty-something days together and
...» Read More!An Eventer Goes to Wellington
Wow. I uttered that word about one thousand times over this past weekend. Everywhere I looked, there was an upper rider, a four-star horse, or a breathtaking view as far as the eye could see.
...» Read More!Here’s to the Haters
Hey you, yes you … random stranger that is just a little bit too nosy. And you, close friend who rolls your eyes at my dreams that are maybe slightly too big for your imagination.
...» Read More!‘Just Keep Showing Up’
I have sand permanently stuck between my toes, pieces of hay in places hay shouldn’t be, a layer of sawdust coating my eyes, sweat building up everywhere, blisters all over my feet and some awful
...» Read More!Making It to the Makeover: What I Look for in a Prospect
So, you’ve decided to embark upon the process of finding a mount, a competitor, an athlete, a partner. This part is hard for me. I am the type of person to never turn away a
...» Read More!Lessons Learned: Eventing, Race Tracks & Slumber Parties
Ainsley Jacobs is an adult amateur based out of Atlanta, Georgia. She started riding huntseat equitation when she was eight, and has tried practically every discipline since then. In 2014, Ainsley discovered eventing and it
...» Read More!Kicking Off 2017 at Loch Moy Farm
The fun continues at Loch Moy Farm in Adamstown, Maryland with the first event of 2017. Nearly 100 riders jumped through the three rings, tackling show jumps, cross country fences, ditches and banks at the
...» Read More!Following the Money
As a small-scale eventing trainer, it’s easy to get caught up in the pursuit of a dollar. There’s good money in finding a diamond in the rough, polishing that horse until it shines and then
...» Read More!Catching Up with the Clemson Eventing Team
As the winter ends and eventing comes back into full swing along, Anna Fogerty of the Clemson Eventing Team kindly offered this recap of their accomplishments during the Fall 2016 semester! The Clemson Eventing Team
...» Read More!Coaching Myself
I have about as much skill on a horse as the pinky fingernail of Phillip Dutton. But that doesn’t mean I can’t channel him once in a while and today I think I made progress.
...» Read More!Making It to the Makeover: What’s in an OTTB’s Name?
What’s in a name? No, I’m not here to quote Shakespeare, but rather to ponder the equally age-old question of equine pedigrees and if they really matter. For years, I went on my merry way,
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