What is your shopping IQ? Mine is abysmal. A while back, I attended a blogger meet-up. Since then I have been following some of the bloggers I met. I read Budding Fashionista because she’s local and as a glimpse into an alien landscape. I am as likely to go clothes shopping for pleasure as IContinue reading “My Denim Guide”
Category Archives: Saddle Seat
Show Report UPHA Chapter 8 in 2014
UPHA Chapter 8 Horse Show September 12-13, 2014 Tri-State Exhibition Center, McDonald, TN. Academy WTC (all comers) with Bingo Thank you to Courtney Huguley for sharing her horse. This is the first Saddlebred show I have done from soup to nuts. I started Thursday loading at the barn, went through each day, and finished SundayContinue reading “Show Report UPHA Chapter 8 in 2014”
Logistics: Shipping
It took us three tries to get Milton from Canada to Alabama. There were just too many variables. These shippers could get him out of Canada. Those – much fewer – shippers could bring him into Alabama. He could be dropped at a farm for the switchover. Okay, what farm? Where? What state? What day?Continue reading “Logistics: Shipping”
re: Posting Trot in Saddle Seat
(I had this as a response to a comment yesterday. Then I thought, Aha A Post and moved it.) Q: How on earth do you rise in the trot without the stirrup leg to balance you? Core strength? … The basic assumption I am making is that you are pivoting from your knee in SaddleContinue reading “re: Posting Trot in Saddle Seat”
Back To Basics
The posting trot is the centerpiece of saddle seat, at least as long as one is three-gaiting. In equitation, you wow the judge at the trot and then try not to lose the class at the canter. However, it has been a red-headed stepchild in everything else I’ve done. In hunters & jumpers you trotContinue reading “Back To Basics”
Guest Post: California Girl becomes a Southern Belle
A cute story from a boarder at the barn where I take saddle seat lessons. Welcome Meg: Story and photographs by Meg McKinney Have you ever imagined what your life would be like, if someone sent you a horse? Or what the horse’s new life would be like? “Slim,” a registered American Saddlebred mare, 11Continue reading “Guest Post: California Girl becomes a Southern Belle”
Equitation Counterpoint
As I said yesterday, it is possible that whatever natural talent I had for equitation – if I ever had any – may have terminally eroded [Three Reasons I Suck At Equitation]. However, it’s not all bad. Specifically, two things I appreciate so far this year. First, I started off with a nice win [ShowContinue reading “Equitation Counterpoint”
Virtual Brush Box 