Saddle Seat Wednesday Stepping Stone Farm rider Reagan Upton is on the U.S. Saddle Seat World Cup Team. She is sharing her story. Welcome Reagan. Part 1 [Road to the World Cup: Have Saddle, Will Travel] Part 2 [Road to the World Cup: First Team Practice] ~~~ The World Cup riders are dividedContinue reading “Road to the World Cup: Three-Gaited & Five-Gaited. Guest Post”
Category Archives: Horse Shows
Show Photo: ICDE 2017
Driving Thursday Still no driving, therefore another belated photo from last year, the Indiana CDE [Show Report]. Part of a package bought by Coach Kate from Journey Sports, Terri Burton. I still haven’t ordered ours. Bad groom. Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott
ASHAA Awards for 2017
Saddle Seat Wednesday American Saddlebred Horse Association of Alabama banquet for the 2017 competition year. Champion WTC Adult Showmanship Champion WTC Adult Equitation Champion Academy Driving High Point Adult Academy Rider At first blush, it seems silly to have a separate Adult High Point when there is only one Adult Academy division. However, if theContinue reading “ASHAA Awards for 2017”
Road to the World Cup: First Team Practice. Guest Post
Saddle Seat Wednesday Stepping Stone Farm rider Reagan Upton is on the U.S. Saddle Seat World Cup Team. She is sharing her story. Welcome Reagan. Part 1 [Road to the World Cup: Have Saddle, Will Travel] ~~~ Like any other team sport, the U.S. Saddle Seat Team has practice. Before I went to our firstContinue reading “Road to the World Cup: First Team Practice. Guest Post”
Milton’s Show Schedule, Driving
tldr: and yet more logistics Driving Thursday Milton’s rate-limiting step for driving shows is transportation. Locally, we could drive the cart over, come back, drive the horse over, show, reverse the process. If the show is 20-30 minutes away, that equals 3 hours of shipping. Cumbersome, but not impossible. This is what we already doContinue reading “Milton’s Show Schedule, Driving”
My Saddle Seat Show Schedule
Saddle Seat Wednesday tldr: more logistics. Thrilled to be at the point of having these kinds of problems issues to iron out. My saddle seat schedule can be reduced to 2 words: who knows? Logistics I hope to make my debut with Milton at a show in March [Schedule]. Since I am currently riding inContinue reading “My Saddle Seat Show Schedule”
I Do It All, But Not as Well As Milton Does
Saddle Seat Wednesday I did not show last weekend. I did not feel ready. Between rain, the holidays, the cold snap, and riding (yay!) and driving Milton, I’ve only had two saddle seat lessons since the last show [Show Report]. This was not enough to give me confidence that Whiskey and I were ready toContinue reading “I Do It All, But Not as Well As Milton Does”