EN is thrilled to have different members of Lauren Kieffer’s team blogging surrounding the Pan American Games and during her temporary move to England this fall in this new series presented by Athletux. Today, working
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As much as I love eventing, I hate cross country schooling! As brave as I am about leaving the start box at a show, I’m loathe to school. There’s something about the adrenaline that I
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I knew that every day at NAJYRC was going to be busy, whether or not I was competing that day. But the first three days at Young Riders have given me whole new definitions of
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In 1996, David and Karen O’Connor were on the US team that took home the silver medal at the Atlanta Olympics. In the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, they won team Bronze and David brought
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In the past few weeks, I have been fortunate enough to be both a competitor and a volunteer at Area I events. I’ve put together a few thoughts on the subject that may be worth
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When something has been hypothetical for so long, it’s hard to start viewing it as a reality. This has been my experience with NAJYRC. When a 12-year-old me heard about Young Riders from a family
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It was one of those moments. The kind you want to freeze and squeeze out every bit of its essence. The kind of time that has an importance you can’t fully grasp until you walk
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You’ve done your lessons, you’ve dutifully stored your skills away in the compartment in your mind specifically reserved for horse training (i.e. the most important part of your brain!), yet you’re still stuck on that
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Five hundred and twenty trot ups. That equates to almost every Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. for the past 10 years that I have spent with Lauren Kieffer watching horses jog up and back in
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I have been asked to do many things I never expected to do in the last few years. This blog is the latest. If you have gotten this far, I am going to assume you
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Each day I set out with a purpose for each horse. It may be to improve their medium trot or shape over a fence — the idea is that you practice what you’re not good
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As I sit here trying to collect my thoughts on all of the awesome things that happened two weeks ago on our trip overseas to Bramham, it honestly feels like it was forever ago or
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Before you get too excited and think I’m about to share my eHarmony dating experiences with you, I should explain I’m referring specifically to the union of horse and rider! There are many factors which,
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Area V Young Rider Katie Resnick has been selected to represent the United States in the dressage competition at the 2015 European Maccabi Games in Berlin this summer, and we are excited she has agreed to
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No, I don’t mean rap battling with 2 Chains on a Saturday night. I’m talking about protecting your prized possession’s most breakable body part: his legs. In a 24 hour period there is an almost
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Each person has a different time frame to work with when planning their show schedule. For me, the upper level horses start competing at the beginning of February in Georgia and continue on their way
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About a year ago, I had just acquired the ride on Castle Larchfield Purdy while living in Fresno, California, with a full-time horse training business. I was competing two mares named Ballingowan Ginger and Jitter
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As part of the Thoroughbred Aftercare movement, CANTER has watched the transformation of endless horses as they leave the racetrack to embark on new adventures. Some horses make the transition seamlessly, others find the sport
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Change is always difficult. We don’t always have a choice about when and how changes will happen in our lives, but we do control how we choose to face those changes. Will we face them
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Aside from nutrition and shoeing, fitness is the most important part of a performance horses program. I rate it above training. For a horse to answer the questions you ask him on the flat and
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Every fiber of my being wants to be a four-star rider. Let’s start with that. While I consider the entire four years with AP to be my prep to Rolex, I could never have imagined
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After weeks (years!) of training and lessons, your performance at a show largely comes down to your warm-up. My warm-ups vary from horse to horse and between the phases. For the dressage phase I start
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I’m pretty honoured (perplexed) that EN wanted me to write a second part to my blog; I initially wanted to name part two “How to Play Pick Up Sticks Like a Boss” but they nixed
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