We are still moving forward … in more ways than one. 1. Under Saddle Training Ace  has grown very sensitive to my legs and takes very little pressure to respond appropriately. We are now doing walk, trot, canter regularly and have even gotten some transitions straight to canter from a walk. He is very energetic [...]

My boy Ascension (I need to practice calling him that) has some of the most expressive eyes I’ve seen on a horse. They’re big, liquid-brown windows to his soul. Last Friday, I showed up in the barn dark-and-early at 6 am to do chores. Typically my horse is happy to see me and trots up [...]

Ace is starting to get fit, and I’m starting to see a new horse emerge. The wooly, pokey, grumpy faced horse is turning into an energetic, interested, flashy mover. When we started doing lunging working a few weeks ago to start building up some fitness, Ace was seriously grumpy with me. He did it, but [...]

One of the lessons Ace taught me back in the fall when we were starting under saddle is that he doesn’t like to feel pressured. I was asking too much at first, go forward, be energetic, stay straight, bend on the turns. And it was just too much for my horse who had been standing [...]

So, I’ve been spending a lot of time with my horse lately. Instead of ropes and carrot sticks and saddles, however, it has involved epsom salts, rubber tubs, lugging hot water, vet wrap and a lot of duct tape. I noticed that he was just a hair off in his left hind the day before [...]