Every day I fight the urge to take short cuts with my horses. But I get it. I totally get why it happens. Success is more than a business model, it’s an addiction. We’re no different from any other artist in that regard. And we are artists. Like singers or Read more…
It was all going so well until it wasn’t. The wheels just fell off. We went from jumping small grids to me not even being able to safely lead him. There was pain involved. Apparently a lot of it. The crazy thing is he never really showed anysigns. No limping, Read more…
“He really was a piece of cake that way, he naturally carried himself in a frame and he loved to show off. I would rarely ride him at home between competitions. I’d turn him out and work him on the long lines with his surcingle to keep him fit. Arabs Read more…
“If your discipline of choice involves jumping you’ve done it. We all have. The question is why do we do it? That pick, pick, pick which causes us to take away, when what we should do is gallop on. That indecisiveness out of the corner, the one that inevitably Read more…
(2/2) “So I talked to her. She asked: what do you want to work on today? And I said: a motivation problem. She asked what was wrong. I explained: my horse doesn’t like the work anymore and now I don’t like it anymore. I don’t feel motivated to continue this Read more…
(1/2) “I have a history of asking too much of myself and my horse. I don’t do it intentionally; I just have a hard time not pushing the boundaries when I’m working on something. I never feel like I’m good enough, that what I’m working on is good enough. I’m Read more…
“I restarted as a beginner at 27 (did a few years of lessons as a young adolescent) and every week, surrounded by kids/teens who were more experienced than I was, I would make at least one embarrassing mistake. My favorite one was putting my saddle pad on upside down. No Read more…
“My pony has a bit of a patented move to remove a rider, it’s worked on all my family members. It’s a bit of a rite of passage as his rider because he tests everyone at least once. He doesn’t try it very often, and after having him for almost Read more…
“He was just a wonderful guy. He was the kind of horse you could put little kids on, new riders, anyone. He took care of them all, but he also wasn’t a dead head. We used to show in high school and then we switched to trails and hunter paces Read more…
