TS Equine Services

08/12/2024

Next time you’re at the supermarket, grab a pack of these. Great for wiping off after your ride. Love your gear. Obsessed with clean. Leather gear is here.

07/12/2024

I love the feeling of a full reflock of a saddle. How long has it been since your saddle was reflocked?

07/12/2024

To all of my clients new and old this is an appreciation post for your support of my small business. I will continue to strive towards excellence in your saddle fitting and training of you and support you all on your journey however big or small as it’s what’s important to you and your horse and that’s all that matters.

06/12/2024

In the lead up to Christmas I am becoming very limited with what saddle fitting bookings I have left. I will be on leave from the 22/12-16/01 so if you need something before then or in January please contact me asap.
Monday 09/12 Macedon region 9:00am & 11:00am
Tuesday 10/12 Booked out
Wednesday 11/12 Booked out
Thursday 12/12 Kilmore region 1:00pm
Friday 13/12 bookings available
Saturday 14/12 booked out
Monday 16/12 booked out
Tuesday 17/12 Macedon region 12:00pm, 2:00pm & 4:00pm
Wednesday 18/12 Macedon region 10:00am & 12:00pm
Thursday 19/12 Kilmore district 8:00am, 10:00am & 12:00pm
Friday 20/12 11:00am, 1:00pm & 3:00pm
Saturday 21/12 booked out

06/12/2024

I make up my feeds in advance, do you do yours daily or meal prep as well?

05/12/2024

How often do you check over your stitching on your gear. When I do your Saddlefit I also clean and inspect your gear for wear

04/12/2024

Does anybody else have these conversations. I’m guilty with Thomas and the cats 🐈

03/12/2024

😁😁😁

01/12/2024

Who else is guilty ??

01/12/2024

With horses, every ride, even if you get placed last, is a step forward in your journey. The courage to enter the arena is a victory in itself, and every effort teaches you, shapes you, and brings you closer to the partnership and skill you're striving for. Every journey is individual and every journey is different. Your goals are yours and shouldn’t be influenced by competitors or others around you. Enjoy your own journey.

30/11/2024

Change of season means worming your horses. Does anyone have any special moves with their horses? I’m lucky as Thomas is a good boy for his paste.

30/11/2024

People often ask if I think their horse is doing it to upset the owner. A horse doesn’t think like a human they are a beautiful animal and we are very privileged to be able to hop on their back.

29/11/2024

Take the time to ask yourself if the question you are asking is easily understood or if you need to ask in a different manner.

27/11/2024

Unless you can create the work at a slower speed at a rate that the rider and horse can understand than you shouldn’t be doing it at a faster gait

27/11/2024

27/11/2024

Nothing better than a ride between storms ⛈️ a few cancellations today gave me the opportunity to fit a ride in during the day. It was only 20 minutes with thunderstorms all around us but Thomas was foot perfect.

26/11/2024

Minor imbalances resulting from a crooked body can have measurable consequences. These kinds of flaws in a rider's posture are often overlooked but we need to fix them. This rider is unbalanced, leaning to the outside.

I think this imbalance begins with their uneven feet. It doesn't matter if the stirrups are uneven or if they have twisted the saddle, so their feet are uneven with the nearside foot lower. What matters is that their feet are uneven, and that has caused the rider to tilt their shoulders in the opposite direction in order to counterbalance their uneven feet.

This rider is not centered in their posture and because the rider's tilting upper body is well above the horse's center of balance, their small degree of leaning out gets multiplied by the height of the of the weight of rider's torso. The poor posture we see has a substantial impact on the shared center of horse-rider balance.

The goal of riding is unity of shared balance and movement between horse and rider. This rider's poor posture has made the horse's ability to unify with the rider in a mutually shared balance more difficult. As riders we need to understand every difficulty that we impose on our horses if we hope to improve.

The result of this rider's leaning posture will be seen immediately when the rider attempts a circle. The right image of the child balancing a broom shows how a horse tries to unify into shared balance and movement with their rider. Horses want to be directly under the center of the rider's mass to create a shared center of balance.

In a polo game an opponent once bumped me so hard that it caused my girth buckles to break quickly, one after the other. As my saddle bounced side to side with me in it at a fast gallop, my horse shifted left and right under me to keep us centered together in a single shared balance. Horses want unity.

Just as my polo horse tried to balance me like kid with the broom, the pictured horse will move to stay under the leaning rider. The result of the outward leaning will become obvious when the circle becomes larger. As the horse moves to stay under the outward leaning rider, the circle will look like the image at left. Similarly, if a rider leans inward while attempting a circle, the circle will become smaller as the horse works to maintain unity with a flawed rider's leaning posture.