Sintaluta Stables

01/09/2025

01/02/2025

So excited to start 2025 off with a new logo! Thank you to SP Rhodes for being so fantastic during every step of this process!

12/04/2024

Copied from the Horse Network:

“I’m not saying the breeches of my younger days, say 1980-2000, were perfect, but they were designed for a generation of thick-skinned riders. Namby-pamby riders need not apply. Our riding pants were a zero-way-stretch affair with pant legs that ended mid-calf and fastened with newly popular Velcro that never quite closed. Imagine, if you will, enduring the 20-minute struggle of getting your leather boots on, only to find the pokey part of the Velcro closure rubbing against your skin whilst snagging on your nylons. We didn’t have time to take our boots off and put them back on, so we toughed it out. ‘Do your worst, Velcro,’ we’d say. And the Velcro did, rasping off little bits of skin until suitable divets were etched from our legs for it to rest for the day. Not only were things happening within our boots, but also just above the top of them. Due to the zero-way-stretch technology, our riding pants, aided by their leather knee patches, had the ability to press our precious kneecaps into unpredictable and unfavorable positions. Our coaches then, as they do now, yelled, ‘Quit gripping with your knees!’ and we, the hapless students, wondered, Then why are there leather knee patches on these stupid pants? Tradition, that’s why. The neat thing, other than the apparent uselessness of the aforementioned patches, was their constant ability to shrink in the wash due to a hot water oversight. This shrinkage meant that the material that sat beneath them would get bunched up and take to burrowing into the side of your knees. We also loved a side-zip breech because it meant we could also wear our belt sideways. Getting these pants done up was a tremendous way to isolate the exact location of your back pain. That quarter waist contort testing our desire for oxygen over fashion as we tucked things in, zipped things up, and got the belt perfectly off-center. I’m not saying that all these New Age breeches are for the birds, I’m just saying they appeal to the masses, whereas in my day, they appealed to the tall and slim. The rest of us just had to get on with it.”

Read Rebecca Berry’s historical account of breeches on Horse Network.

10/23/2024

One of my favourite things that I’ve learned in the last few years is feeding horses before work to control ulcers. A friend of ours had a horse prone to ulcers and did a lot of research and it was recommended to them by a veterinarian to give some alfalfa right before work to control any stomach acids that the horses might build up during stressful activity. Since then, we’ve adopted this practice, especially with our higher intensity horses and we’ve been really happy with the results.

10/08/2024

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08/17/2024

Good visual!

07/14/2024

Thought we’d try something a little different this week and we took Charlotte and Mr. Sock Monkey to a week-long “horse camp” featuring a bunch of different disciplines we normally don’t get to participate in. The beat part of the weekend though was seeing all these kids supporting each other and just enjoying being youth with horses 💕. Big thank you to YEEHA shows and all the organizers for putting on this great event!

07/03/2024

I just love this little pair 🥰🥰. Charlotte has done an excellent job with our young Mr. Sock Monkey developing him into an exceptional solid citizen

07/01/2024

Sheldon… 😏😏

06/26/2024

The young horses and broodmares are so happy to be on pasture for the summer 💕

06/22/2024

This German Riding Pony c**t has *IT* and knows it! Bonjour S “Bill” is a Bonofacio FLF son out of our lovely silver bay mare Godiva HV and is everything we could have hoped for with this cross 💕💕

06/07/2024

It’s a tough life being a baby horse