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12/11/2020

How Old Is YOUR Horse?

08/17/2020

04/04/2020

List of 10 horse breeds (Full blooded/not a cross) I’ve owned but ONE is a lie. Can you guess which one that is?
Let’s play!
1. Icelandic
2. Rocky Mountain Horse
3. Appaloosa
4. Tennessee Walking Horse
5. Haflinger
6. Percheron
7. Saddlebred
8. Dutch Warmblood
9. Arabian
10. Peruvian Paso

What’s your guess? Leave it in the comments. Good luck 😉

01/15/2020

Good read on real life lessons that horses provide us...

BlogsBarn Lounge Sometimes it seems that the biggest lessons horses teach us have nothing to do with riding. January 14, 2020 BY PONYMOMAMMY It’s easy to overlook how much we learn from horses every day. I’ve been riding my whole life, and still have a new takeaway from every lesson. While the m...

11/24/2019

I’ve enjoyed being a part of this as an instructor...

Saddle up your child to strengthen their smarts. A study by Mitsuaki Ohta, a professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, proves that memory, learning, and

09/05/2019

Releases are used and taught in the Softer Way, as well as all aspects of Horsemanship and understanding the nature of the horse. The goal of good horse stewardship is to minimize horses choosing behaviors that are potentially harmful to humans, and if they do, figure out why...

Quite a few years ago, I was idling away some time reading the then-current issue of The Chronicle of the Horse magazine (a weekly sport-horse publication). While skimming a pretty dry article abou…