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Reining Red Confetti

Let me introduce you to Red Confetti.  She is a beautiful 12 year old Arabian mare, unregistered.    Confetti came to us a year and a half ago from a man who was going to take her to the auction.  We all know what happens to those horses.  Not all, but most end up being abused, [...]

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Riding Clinics

Well I am finally going to hold my first two day clinic in Louisburg, NC for a client of mine.  Never thought I would progress this far when I started teaching and training again.  You see, I have been training horses for quite sometime and teaching riding lessons since 1994.  I did quit for a [...]

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I had written a little about Sir Alex on December 6, 2009 when I first acquired him.  Since then he was shipped to my house at midnight two weeks ago.  I fell in love with this horse the minute I saw him on the trailer.  I knew he was special when I watched the video of him [...]

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Picked up a few pounds since Thanksgiving?  Expecting and dreading picking up a few more over Christmas and New Years?  Tired of sucking it in every time you zip up?  Yeah, me too!  Forget about walking 20 minutes a day, getting on the treadmill or killing yourself with aerobic exercises.   Ride a horse! Riding lessons [...]

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Serenade, an Update

I have in the past posted about Sera, our thoroughbred mare we adopted a few months ago.  She came from Leighton Farms in Maryland, a race horse  rescue farm.  A wonderful lady had adopted her from there, then found she did not have the resources to keep her since she was moving away.  So we [...]

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I have done a lot of searching on saddles and saddle fitting.  I have been trying to purchase the right saddle for my new horse, mainly because I decided to take up hunt seat to improve my riding abilities.   There is a lot of information to go thru and can be confusing.  But I am [...]

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I have been riding for around 23 years now and I have been training for nearly 18 years.  I have taken lessons and continue to do so, but one thing I was never formally taught about was saddle fitting.  I have ridden saddle seat on Saddlebreds and TWH, I have ridden western in western saddles [...]

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Gait to the Beat!

Own a gaited horse and can’t quite get the beat?  Try counting with the hoofbeats to get the rhythm.   You can always take a metronome out with you and once you get the beat, memorize your horse’s speed. It is much easier to learn this by first getting used to the walk.  Sounds elementary, I [...]

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Driving Woodrow

This is my second blog about Woodrow.   Woodrow has been undergoing the schooling to be a carriage horse.  He has been driven in long reins but never in harness and carriage.  Woodrow is a bit afraid of things coming up behind him suddenly or of being touched on the behind.  He jumps whenever this happens.   [...]

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All About Woodrow

// We recently purchased Woodrow, our 5 year old TWH  at an auction in Shelbyville, TN.   Love the horse, he is a wonderful ride, real sweet, loves to be petted and does anything you ask.  However, it took Woodrow a couple of weeks to settle in at our farm and get over being afraid of [...]

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