With my success I felt responsibility.  Responsibility to do honor to my roots and champion a cause that felt worthwhile.  I didn’t want to talk, I wanted to do.  Much of my early riding career was dependent on the myriad of people who took the time to coach, to mentor, to provide horses or show opportunities even though I had no way of paying for them.  Riding opportunities at HE will never be wholly determined on income but I was finding myself giving resources to many who already had access and opportunity.  I often wondered how I might do more. 

The equestrian community is buzzing with finger pointing and incantations of animal abuse allegations. It’s as if these individuals can assuage themselves of being guilty by association. However, there is no bandage for these wounds, we are all guilty of rubbing elbows with animal abusers. And I’m tired of it.

Sara needs a proper introduction. It is a childhood dream to have a horse like Sara. This majestic creature owned every part of her six figure import when she came to the states, she was bold, she was brave and she was fast.

A lot of things are terrifying and yet here we are jumping head first. I have been isolated and slightly contained. I found myself at Split Rock last year with little preparation but enjoying every moment in that Grand Prix ring. I walked out of that class beaming but realized I wasn’t going to progress, really get my horse and I wanted to be/could be unless I drastically changed the schemata.

I fumbled last week, dragging heels because I couldn’t think of any valuable horse thing to send off into the world. The faulty premise one, that one would be reading me, scrolling this page for solo horse information. It is a myriad art form, the functional cohesion of collision with horse qua horse and as well as the ability to isolate the particular parts of singular and very specific body control.

We are all striving for authenticity and uniqueness but if the professional equestrian lifestyle has taught me anything is that we aren’t unique, special and oftentimes are discouraged from being authentic.

What does a theoretical Physicist have to do with riding?  And why, throughout the myriad of questions presented to the horses and riders, was the answer to take a push with the inside leg and take a direct or opening feel on the inside rein? 

2021 is shaping up for some fabulous activities.

Daily I watch videos of great riders.  I have always watched training and show ring rides but now I make notes and come back and set the grids at home.  I don't rely on my trainers to push me, I simply push myself.  If its easy, I don't do it. 

I came from humble beginnings and it was nothing but raw interest in the world around me that brought be back time and again to the library.  It was a massive force problem, finding the kinetic energy to trudge up socio-economic divides and find a place for "poor, white trash" among the ivory tower elite.  Horses again, a re-edification of that same problem, err, challenge.  

Are you a kid or do you know of a kid that would like the opportunity to ride and show an adorable small pony? We are looking to sponsor a deserving and hard-working kid that wants to learn to ride and campaign our ponies!

I find a great deal of comfort in my horses.  All horses are special little snow flakes. But my special little snow flakes have helped me tremendously with the depression and anxiety of a wretched family history.  To think of letting a companion out of my life so I might become a better competition rider was a serious conundrum.  

Courage, empathy, self-reliance, quick-thinking, problem solving, disciplined, hard-working, ambitious and modest.  I spent my undergraduate education contemplating the Aristotelian abstraction of personal virtue.   Much better horseman have cited sound horsemanship as a form of self-mastery

Coercion is an unacceptable and unnecessary training technique.