(“’But we promised everybody you’d show videos,’ they said.”) Read More

(“YOU let the dog out!”) Read More

(“Only by not holding him back can you truly ride him forward.”) Read More

(“Test sheets?”)

It amuses me when I hear of riders who say their horse just can’t perform in a small arena. Sure, non-eventors are used to the 20 by 60 standard arena, but even a 17-plus hand horse will fit in the smaller one if he’s well ridden, and sometimes, the more limited confines actually make it easier to keep them together. Read More

( “She has [insert dread disease here].”) Read More

(“One lesson that day was with a teenager trying to figure out the nuances of positioning his horse for shoulder-in and travers.”) Read More

(“But another way to school you might think of as integrative,”) Read More

(“What makes that slogan special?”) Read More

(“I’m thinking about holding the pencil just so between my thumb and my index finger, keeping the proper angle but not putting too much pressure on the point.”) Read More

(“Do you know what Rosebud was?”) Read More