Saddle Seat Wednesday Coach Courtney’s daughter, Reagan Upton, is a (the!) leading saddle seat equation rider. She is the first adult to win the saddle seat triple crown: United Professional Horsemen’s Association Challenge Cup (Reagan won in 2015, 2016), USEF Saddle Seat Medal (2016, 2017), and the National Horse Show Good Hands Trophy (2017, heldContinue reading “Road to the World Cup: Have Saddle, Will Travel. Guest Post”
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All Better. For Now.
tldr: Rodney had a tummyache. He is back on ulcer meds. I am riding again. As I’ve said before [Rodney’s Feet], one of Rodney’s tells for pain is to act scared. He was doing this, but only in the barn. Out in the pasture, he was galloping about without a care in the world. PutContinue reading “All Better. For Now.”
Goals 2018. Not.
Horses After a week of Looking Back posts, the logical move would be to spend time looking forward. Nope. To overturn the quote, ‘I don’t set goals. I’m tired of the whooshing sound they make going by.’ From this time last year, Rodney slid backwards. My goals for Rodney range from being able to walkContinue reading “Goals 2018. Not.”
Letter Art: Changing the Year
Pantone Color of the Year 2017 Greenery 15-0343 Pantone Color of the Year 2018 Ultra Violet 18-3838 Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott
State of the Blog: A Sea of Statistics
An unexciting post put up for reference. Now I won’t have to look up/recreate these links or numbers. Scroll down for top ten. [Previous State of The Blog links] 2011 First post, December 22 [We begin. Again.] Last post, December 31 [Fear! Fire! Foes! Nevermind.] 10 posts in 2011 2012 First post, Jan 1 [GentlemenContinue reading “State of the Blog: A Sea of Statistics”
Foto Friday: Top Seven of 2017
The rest of the week is photos for content. This is photos for art. [About] [Caeruleus Descending] [Wheeler Wildlife] [Warm Up Pro-Am 2017] [Spotted at Oak Mountain State Park] [One Day at a Horse Show] Sunrise Tree The Night The Animals Talked By The Numbers – 52 Fridays 26 Photo posts 6 Show Photos 2Continue reading “Foto Friday: Top Seven of 2017”
Looking Back 2017, Combined Driving
Driving Thursday Yowza! Milton went from proof of concept [Milton’s Practice Cart] to pulling his own marathon carriage [Show Report Driving & Lessons, Milton’s First Carriage Drive]. Greg drove (& won!) his first CDE [Show Report]. I should have more to say, but I’m gobsmacked. Driving this year has been everything we could have hopedContinue reading “Looking Back 2017, Combined Driving”
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