M2 Performance Horses

09/05/2024

This is amazing!

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If you bring your daughter to a rodeo, expect to come home the next day with a horse and three metal cans.
Give your daughter a horse and three metal cans and then she will want to barrel race. You’ll buy her a barrel saddle, followed by a breast collar, saddle pad and all the other barrel racing things.
Then she will ask to take lessons. So you will look for a local stables that teaches barrel lessons. After taking some lessons you will start to socialise with the barrel racing community...and then life as you know it, will end.
Before you know it, she will want to go to shows and rodeos… there will be no more lazy weekends watching TV. You will see more sunrises than you ever thought possible!
Every spare minute of your time will be spent driving your daughter and her horses around to every barrel race their is. And now your daughter is enduring a crazy addiction to practice for the next show every time you get home from one.
Your house may be a mess, and your car will be dirty. All because you took your daughter to a rodeo. Your weekends will be spent freezing or burning to death on a fold up chair. And their weekends will be spent gaining confidence, new friends, learning new skills, having fun and getting dirty!!!!
You will be there the day she takes the first few steps around that metal can, you will be there the first time she has a super fast barrel run, you will be there when she gets her first ribbon, and you will be there to watch her make her first win. And those moments will make you SO proud. Other parents will congratulate you, but you feel weird saying thank you because it's not you on the horse, it’s your daughter. It's everything that SHE did, it’s everything that SHE achieved. And right before your eyes, your little girl will be transformed from the baby who bounced around on their rocking horse into an exceptional young horse enthusiast on the hunt for her next pro rodeo or maybe even the NFR!
When you let your daughter barrel race you give her more then just something to play around doing. You give her a sport, a talent, hope and dreams. Friends, a new family, a place to learn about life, room to grow as a person and a place where they can push their limits. You give her bravery, courage, and memories. And she will have ALL of these things, simply because you took her to a rodeo!
Because you took your daughter to just one simple rodeo, you too will develop new lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the sport. You will have an entire barrel racing family because you gave your daughter the chance to follow her dreams.
Then one day, many years from today…she will be in her room and a certain trophy will catch her eye. She will pick it up and realise instantly that when you gave her the opportunity to barrel race, you also gave her a childhood that she will never forget. At this point, you realise that everything you gave up along the way and sacrificed was totally worth it…..
And its all because you took your daughter to a rodeo...
Post Credit ~ Alexis Weaver
Photo Credit~Crystal Heald Stinson

04/29/2024

Deadline is today to sign up for the clinic this weekend. If we don’t get a couple more people to register today I’m afraid we will be cancelling it.

For those on the fence about it, this is an opportunity to work on anything and everything you would like help with. From trail to horsemanship, equitation and even lead changes.

04/24/2024

Hey all,
Just fyi the lady who was posting and tagging you all on my page has nothing to do with me. She has been reported and block.

Very sorry for any inconvenience

Lisa

04/10/2024

THIS!!! ❤️

04/09/2024

Hey there everyone! Just following up with those of you who were wanting to come to the Horse in Hand Ranch and have a great weekend of learning and trying new things! We still have some openings and I would love to see you there!

Primary focus of part of the weekend will be trail but there is lots of flexibility to work on other things as well. Horsemanship, Showmanship maybe even some western riding.
Also a great opportunity to get your horses out before the show season gets in full swing.

I will be contacting some of you directly but I am attaching the link to register for the weekend. We are keeping it smaller so that there is lots of opportunity to try new things and get some one on one time.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Please click the link to complete this form.

03/29/2024

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The problem with horse training is that society is set up to believe that you can buy a service and have things the way you want in a certain time frame. People look at horse training as if they're spending their money on a product. And yet even the best horse trainers will tell you the horse takes its own time, and no one can guarantee a horse will be doing what you want from it when you want from it.

The other problem is that even if your trainer can get it done with your horse, it doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to. Getting a horse right takes an amount of commitment on the owners part to develop the same type of relationship that the trainer has, otherwise how can you expect from your horse for yourself what your trainer gets, when it's they who have put in the hours, the and sweat, the patience and the desire to get along with that horse? You aren't spending money on a tune up for your car that you can take home and drive.

The fact that money is involved leads people to believe they deserve something for what they paid, and they do, but, it happens in the animals time, not the humans. I think any good trainer would say they would do this for free if they could, just to help horses and people. And yet, we all have to eat...

Edited to add Author… Amy Skinner Horsemanship

03/16/2024

Most of us should have a neck brace for the whiplash of all these emotions. Highest of highs, lowest of lows.

03/15/2024

With horses it hair, hair as far as the eye can see!

My horses are enjoying the sunshine, how about yours?

03/07/2024

Dates are set and we are ready to go!

We just need you! 🙂

Below is the link to register through the ranch for May 4&5.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

03/05/2024

This should speak volumes to people

02/26/2024

DO IT FOR THE HORSE. 🐴

Next time you enter the showpen, do it for the horse.

Not for you.
Not for the judge, judging you.
Not for the owner or yourself.
Not for the critic on the side.

But for the horse.

Enter that pen, making it the best experience for your horse, take the stress away (because they can feel it) go in that pen to make it a positive experience for your horse. Make that pen the happy place, smile, fake it till you can, crack a joke before you go in, cause they can feel that too.

Ride the horse you have, forgive the mistakes right after they happen and move on, celebrate with a smile or a sigh of relief when you hit that lead change, they can feel that too, and talk to them and tell them to finish strong, cause they feel that energy of confidence too.

Make it about your horse, and they will give you everything they got.

02/24/2024

They all mean something. They all teach us something.

02/11/2024

“Horses are so expensive.”
I agree, they cost me a lot everyday.

Horses cost you your selfishness.
Having horses means everyday you are alive you must consider someone’s needs before your own, multiple times a day. Even when you’re away from them arrangements must be made, this builds character and gives us self worth.

Horses cost you your ego.
Right when you think you have it figured out, you will undoubtedly be presented with a humbling experience either in the arena or out. They will force you to reach out for help when your expertise is maxed out. If you are wise, you will realize life is like this too. Maybe we should reach out for help more frequently and we would get further.

Horses cost you your laziness.
You will never progress with an equine partner by leaving it turned out, just as you will never progress by staying checked out. Do the work and you will get somewhere.

Horses cost you your heart.
They never fail to find a way to touch us deep within even (and especially) when we are feeling cold to the ways of the world. There’s something special about getting to interact with a being that becomes softer when we soften. We should learn to respond to one another similarly.

Yes, horses are so expensive. But everything they’ve ever cost me has also made me 👏🏻

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02/04/2024

Save the date!!! May 4&5 at the Horse in Hand Ranch!
Trail- beginner and more advanced
Horsemanship-beginner and more advanced

And if anyone is interested we can do some lead changes.

Stay tuned for more details!