Enjoy The Rest Previous Horse was best on the first day back. I often gave him the day off before a show. Steady Worker Mathilda improved as the week went along. We only showed once [see comments] but I always arranged dressage lessons so that we worked for several days beforehand. Seesaw Horse If RodneyContinue reading “Training Types”
Category Archives: Riding
Show Calendars & Sympathetic Magic
The website for the 2012 Alltech National Horse Show is up. No Adult Jumpers. The prizelist isn’t available but none last year AFAIK and the intro blat doesn’t mention it as a new event. That means I will either have to jump higher or the show will have to get bigger. We will ignore theContinue reading “Show Calendars & Sympathetic Magic”
What’s In Your Wheelhouse?
I’ve been thinking about ancillary skills and how they affect riding. In Thursday’s post, Cur Tales talked about music [Talent]. Such pursuits have been on my mind latently. At the Alabama Phoenix Festival [FF: Push, Ghost, Yeller], I met the artist who draws The Devil’s Panties and discovered the world of webcomics. Now I wantContinue reading “What’s In Your Wheelhouse?”
What Price Authenticity?
In honor of International Helmet Awareness Day. The man in the photo is a historical reenactor from Colonial Williamsburg. His costume and tack are authentic down to his stirrups. Should he ruin the 18thC look by plonking a safety helmet on his head? I want to say yes. I really, really, do. I stand onContinue reading “What Price Authenticity?”
Somebody Else’s Problem. Worthy Cause II
The Equine Land Conservation Resource won the 2012 American Horse Publications‘s Equine Industry Vision Award, presented last weekend at a breakfast hosted by Pfizer Animal Health [more payback]. Equine Land Conservation Resource “is an educational and networking resource for horsemen and communities. Since all land is saved locally, we provide the information horsemen need toContinue reading “Somebody Else’s Problem. Worthy Cause II”
Bucket List – Accomplished
To counteract the thread of greed that runs through my Bucket List, herein a list of things that would be on my bucket list if I hadn’t already done them. (What to call it? Filled bucket has stall-cleaning overtones. The anti-bucket lists in the ether where all things that people had no intention of everContinue reading “Bucket List – Accomplished”
New Barn Checklist
Prodded in the buttocks by a comment from Cowgirliz [Never Settle], today I visited a barn that offers Western lessons. Western comes with less baggage. I don’t know anyone in that world and have no ambitions in that direction. Of course, there exists the mathematical possibility that I will meet my equine soulmate, become theContinue reading “New Barn Checklist”
Virtual Brush Box 