In a previous post I went through techniques of working a horse in the round pen and the philosophy behind such work. There was nothing new and original in this ‘how to’, just my adaptations and interpretations of the many great horse trainers out there and a reference to my own horse training experience. However, I want to philosophize a bit on what round pen work means for… Continue reading this POST
Archive for September, 2009
Spain – 1986
Once upon a time I went to Spain to work with horses. Actually, I wore two hats…personal riding instructor to Patricia and part-time nanny to her youngest daughter. The nanny portion was infrequent but the horses played a prominent role during my time there.
I was working as a riding instructor at Claremont Riding Academy in New York City when I met… Continue reading this POST
Got Hay?
A few months back I was lucky enough to find a beautiful pasture to lease for our four horses. It’s five acres of beautiful grass, trees, seasonal creek and two shelters. The pasture hadn’t been used in a while and although it was fenced, there was some work that needed to be done to the fencing as well as the main shelter in preparation for the horses. The last thing… Continue reading this POST
Horse Forums
As I’ve discovered lately, horse forums are a great networking source and a wonderful way to acquire tidbits of new horse knowledge! When I discovered that my mare had what looked to be ‘stringhalt’ I posted a query on 3 of the four horse forums I’m signed up with. I was curious to find out other horse owners experiences, successes and failures with this condition. I wrote a post describing… Continue reading this POST
Stringhalt…???
About four days ago our 15 y.o. QH mare Rain started walking funny, a kind of ‘John Cleese’ exaggerated comic walk except it was only the left hind leg doing it!
Now when I first saw her doing this I had no clue what was going on! I did all the usual stuff, checked the foot, felt the leg for any swelling or heat, looked for… Continue reading this POST