River Meadow Stables

05/07/2021

Just a reminder if your lesson has changed please remove it from the board.
Also boarders are finding a lot of manure left in the indoor. Please do a walk about and pick it up, before leaving the ring.
Thanks

20/03/2021

"To help you understand what the horse feels when you sit crookedly in the saddle, load a wheelbarrow heavily to one side as in the center illustration. Now push the wheelbarrow, and feel how it pulls to the weighted side and how you are forced to lean in that direction to compensate. That’s how your horse feels when you sit unevenly in the saddle, as shown in the left image. When you sit evenly, the horse will be centered and balanced as shown in the illustration on the right." — Sharon Sweet

Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz

17/03/2021

11/03/2021

Had a meeting with a rep from Sollio Agriculture. He was very informative. They have some new equine products. I have info sheets in the barn for you to check out. All these products are sold at the Sussex CO-OP.

Products like

BioPod for hoof health

TransiFlora for healthy digestive systems your pre and probiotic

EquiSeO 100%organic selenium and vitamin E

GastriBalance for our troubled stomach ponies

03/03/2021

The FEI has cancelled international events in 10 countries on the European mainland with immediate effect and until 28 March 2021 due to the rapid evolution of a very aggressive strain of the neurological form

27/02/2021

Young Quebec entrepreneur Marc-Antoine Samson has taken over the management reins and hopes to acquire the property by the fall of 2022.

20/02/2021

Just a reminder for everyone to do a walk around the ring when your done riding even if you think your horse didn’t manure. There’s a lot being left lately

15/02/2021

Haha

Names... 😉🙃
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15/02/2021

09/02/2021

01/02/2021

Dr. Elisha Dickinson-Mills is coming to the barn next Tuesday to do vaccines 💉 Give her a call if you’d like to get on the list.

26/01/2021

THE REAL RULES OF DRESSAGE

1. If you really want to get better at dressage, take it up at an earlier age - and grow an extra 3 inches of leg.

2. A dressage test is a test of your skill against another competitor's luck.

3. Dressage is about achieving a harmonious working relationship with your horse, whose only idea of harmony is eating grass in a field with his buddies.

4. If you want to end a drought or dry spell, wear a new jacket and hat to an outdoor arena.

5. Untalented, difficult, aggressive horses have robust health, good hocks and long lives.

6. Talented tractable horses are accident prone and have OCD lesions.

7. You will ride the best test of your entire life just prior to being disqualified for not wearing your gloves.

8. Never keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your head before a test.

9. Never keep less than another 300 separate thoughts in your head during a test.

10. Horses do not improve their paces because you are wearing expensive German breeches.

11. If you chose a disco theme for your dressage to music test then the judge will be more than 90 years of age and Swiss.

12. The less skilled the rider, the more likely they are to share their critique of your test.

13. If you are considering the services of a horse clairvoyant to help you with training then you have reached the point of total desperation - try the German breeches.

14.Your horse has never heard of Podhajsky, let alone read the book.

15. No matter how badly you ride a test, it is always possible to ride a worse one.

16. If it ain't broke, try shifting your position and it will be.

17. Judges only suffer from temporary blindness (or kindness) when they are judging someone else's test.

18. If you fall off your horse in the arena you will have paid to have the test videoed.

19. If you are feeling confident before a show then three of the USET dressage team will turn up to give their young horses some "experience."

20. Your horse will perform its best piaffe ever when you ask for extended canter.

22. Since runs of bad competitions come in groups of three, the fourth competition is actually the beginning of the next group of three.

23. No one cheats at dressage because no one has worked out how to do it.

24. It is surprisingly easy to end a test with a perfect square halt once you have scored a four for every other movement.

25. The result of an expensive lesson from a top pro is that you will stop believing in that tiny piece of innate ability that was holding your riding together.

26. Remember when buying a dressage horse advertised as "needs experienced competitive rider" this really means "needs the skills of Isabelle Werth just to stay on board."

27. If you think your test was better than someone else's, it probably wasn't.

28. If you pay 60,000 for an imported WB, you will be beaten in First Level 4 by a Quarter Horse.

29. Clinics given by someone with an interesting accent are not necessarily superior to those given by the homegirl.

30. If you go to the expense of raising an expensive WB foal, he will have a talent for jumping and no walk worth talking about.

**Author unknown

20/12/2020

I still need a few of your numbers so your able to come to the barn Jan 1st, 2021 thanks so much

21/11/2020

Just a reminder to please sanitize each time you come. Spray cross ties, door handles, lead lines, gate handles any and all things you touch. If your unable to sanitize please stay home. Thank you.

03/11/2020

Just a reminder board is due on the 1st of every month.

25/08/2020

Who lost an earring. It's on the bulletin board

15/07/2020

Anyone looking for a beautiful halter, leading line and bag. Posting for a friend $65

08/07/2020

Thanks to whoever wrote this beautiful passage:

How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can't carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babys before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.

04/07/2020

Due to the lack of rain, and our house feeds the barns water supply. We are now just doing sponge baths until we get rain. Please dont let the water run, fill a bucket. Thanks

20/06/2020

Just a reminder if we want to keep our wash bay. No grooming, picking of feet in the wash bay. Clean off any mud before taking horse into wash bay. Clean and then sweep up any manure. We took out a half of shovel full of left overs today, when we took out the wall. Once pipes are clogged our wash bay will be all done. So let's keep it open by doing your part
Thanks

15/06/2020

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12/06/2020

Steven & Tracy Bryson bought some cattle at DCC and I noticed this PVC elbow on the air gaps. They come from some pretty serious summer heat. Steven says a PVC elbow and a heavy duty ziptie will scoop in lots of air directed right on the cattle. They can be turned to send fast air all over the trailer and help cool the cattle along the way. Pretty sharp Steven -- good school teacher thinking.

02/06/2020

Horse hack.... instead of filling with dish soap, fill with fly spray to apply where needed. Great on the face!

29/05/2020

Ladies things have been lifting in our provience but you still need to use your disinfectant and social distance. Thanks.

27/05/2020

Reigning European eventing champion Ingrid Klimke will see some additional time on the sidelines in 2020 after sustaining a thoracic vertebral fracture in a fall during training. The German Olympian seems to be in positive

05/05/2020

28/04/2020

As life begins creeping back toward some modicum of normalcy (fingers crossed), there are plenty of questions being raised about how our sport will move forward in the future. How to ensure that we are

13/04/2020

23/03/2020

March 23, 2020, Spruce Meadows president and CEO Linda Southern-Heathcott released the following statement regarding cancellation of the Summer Series.

23/03/2020

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21/03/2020

Make sure when you are posting your ride time if it's a lesson or just a ride. Thanks.

19/03/2020

If your coming to the barn this weekend, please use team up and put your time down. Please be considerate of others and your time slots to be fair to everyone. No more than 3 riders at a time.