Harmony Horsemanship Center

11/20/2024

I spent a lot of time sketching horses while growing and developing in my passion! Here’s your chance for some fun 😁🐴👏 https://www.facebook.com/share/18GnvJwFNL/?mibextid=WC7FNe

11/16/2024

Incredibly proud of our HHC students as they were awarded several championships from the Huntingdon Horsemen Association 2024 Horse Show Season❤️❤️❤️
Brantly Ackinclose on Scooby Do…owned by Jacinda Boone:
*Grand Champion Hunter Seat Equitation Over Fences
*Grand Champion Hunter Hack
*Grand Champion Working Hunter Over Fences
*Grand Champion 4-16 Working Hunter Over Fences
* Reserve Champion 4-16 English Equitation

Skyla Kline on Gypsy Rose:
*Grand Champion Cross Rails

Grace Shelow on HHC Ruby owned by HHC
*Grand Champion English Pony Warm Up
*Grand Champion 13 & Over All Day Pleasure
*Reserve Champion Hunter Pony Under Saddle
*Reserve Champion English Pony Pleasure.
And to Julia Wertz, for her incredible coaching❤️❤️❤️

11/13/2024

It’s been another day of gorgeous fall weather … to be enjoyed by all ❤️🐴

09/26/2024

I just couldn’t love this little horse more and I am especially proud of him for scoring a 76 in Western Dressage at the KDCTA show we hosted last weekend. HHC Chrome ❤️❤️❤️

09/23/2024

Entrance to the world famous Indian Caverns located near Spruce Creek, Huntingdon County. It is a horizontal karst cave of Ordovician Nealmont / Benner limestone, estimated to be about 500,000 years old. It is the second-largest cave in Pennsylvania and the largest limestone cave. Indian Caverns consists of two sections, originally separated by a 14-foot wall: the "Historic Cave" and the "Giant's Hall". The "historic" part of the cave is generally low-ceilinged and closer to the surface (as shallow as 15 feet) with a couple of wide rooms and extensive speleothem formation. The Giant's Hall area consists of several large passageways up to 60 feet high, but with fewer speleothems, though it does include the largest sheet of flowstone in the Northeast and a substantial rimstone pool. The lowest point of the cave is approximately 140 feet beneath the surface and the cave temperature is a constant 56 degrees Fahrenheit.

Artifacts found in the cave indicate that it was inhabited as long ago as 8000 BC. The earliest tribe known to have used the cave were the Susquehannocks (circa 1600 CE). It was later used by Algonkian (including Lenni Lenape) and Iroquois (probably Mohawk) tribes through the early eighteenth century. Examples of the artifacts are on display in the cave and include arrow and spearheads, to***co pipes, tomahawks, punches, banner stones, a bone flute and pottery shards. They also include a rare effigy of the Algonkian guardian spirit, Mesingw.

One room, the "Grotto of the Wah-Wah-Taysee", features a phosphorescent mineral deposit in the ceiling and walls. It was originally thought to be radium, but has since been identified as zinc sulfide reacting with calcite in the limestone. The cave also contains a "musical rock", which resounds with a bell-like tone when struck. Indian Caverns was known about by European settlers from the late eighteenth century. From about 1816, it was one of several caves used as a hideout by the outlaw David Lewis until his death in 1820. The entrance and grounds were bought in 1928 by Harold Wertz, Sr., a local entrepreneur, and the cave was opened to the public on June 14, 1929. Wertz opened the cave after two years of excavation and about half a million dollars worth of investments. Wertz, along with his family, moved to Florida during the great depression, but returned each summer to run and upkeep the caves.

Before the Indian relics were found inside the first few chambers in the caverns, the cave was planned to be called "Franklin Cave", but it seemed more appropriate to be called "Historic Indian Cave". Then in the late 1930's to early 1940's the name was changed to "Indian Caverns". It was a popular destination during the Early Auto Era due to the Edwardian fascination with the "wonders" of nature and has remained in continuous operation since. The Wertz Family still owns and operates the caverns, with the 4th generation today. Guided tours covering nearly a mile of cavern currently run about 45 minutes.
(Photo from https://www.facebook.com/Spruce-Creek-Franklinville-Pennsylvania-Then-Now-1572700006278319/)

09/18/2024

He Shall Be Levon… and his first Cowboy Dressage Virtual Test Ride!
This guy is getting better by the day!

09/17/2024

Have a Good Year!!!😉

09/08/2024

No more BAD score!
Please take a look at these terms for scoring Cowboy Dressage Tests.
Note the changes of terms for numbers 1-4

Since “soft feel” is the mission of
Cowboy Dressage®, it will be scored with emphasis on lightness,
harmony, finesse, and partnership as a priority.
Balance, cadence, carriage, control, and performance
are additional areas the horse and rider will be judged and scored.
Scoring scale of marks for Cowboy Dressage®:
10 - Excellent
9 - Very Good
8 - Good
7 - Fairly Good
6 - Satisfactory
5 - Marginal
4 - Insufficient - Change to Needs improvement
3 - Fairly Bad - Change to Multiple Minor Mistakes
2 - Bad - Change to Significant Mistakes
1 - Very Bad - Change to Multiple Significant Mistakes
0 - Not Executed
It is important to know the word assigned to the number as it helps you to determine the basic score, before adding or subtracting the modifiers.
It is important to understand the difference between a marginal (5) score and a Needs improvement (insufficient - (4) score.

“When you judge different, then you train different,
then you practice different, then you are different.
Just one reason I support Cowboy Dressage.
They make a positive DIFFERENCE from the rest.”

Rachel Buszka - Wisconsin Cowboy Dressage

09/05/2024

08/28/2024

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08/28/2024

Yes to protecting the whiskers!!!

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Talking about whisker clipping is a really great litmus test to get an idea of how much of competition is human centred.

It’s a far more controversial topic than it should be.

In FEI classes, whisker clipping was banned recently and this caused a major uproar.

But in lower level classes and many other show organizations, it’s perfectly legal.

Regardless of anyone’s personal preferences, a simple fact remains — whiskers are a sensory organ for horses.

Each individual whisker even has its own blood supply.

The debate of how much they help with sensation is still ongoing but what is fact is that we know they’re used for sensory input by the horse.

It really isn’t up to us to argue to what extent they are used when that argument is only being used to justify us clipping them off for totally shallow reasons.

The only “benefit” humans get from whisker clipping is a “cleaner look” that they’ve been conditioned to like better.

There’s no other incentive, it’s all aesthetic based.

So, the fact that this is still as controversial of a debate as it is when it’s rooted in shallow human preferences really speaks for how much competition centres around human desires.

Because WHY are we enabling ourselves in promoting mindsets that flippantly take away protection and sensory output from the horse, with no care of the impact, just because we like they look better?

Whiskers are cute, for one.

For two, you can’t even see them in the show ring, only close up.

And then third, and most obviously, THEY ARE A SENSORY ORGAN.

Competiton can be done ethically, in my opinion.

But we will struggle to get to the destination of ethical competition so long as human desires are centred to the extent they currently are.

08/26/2024

Just a reminder:

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Did you know that motorists are obligated by law to stop and remain stationary if anyone handling an animal signals that the animal is frightened? The motorists need to wait as long as is reasonable and necessary until the animal is calm enough to pass or move along.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/11/4-people-injured-one-critically-when-horse-drawn-wagon-crashes-in-clinton/

08/17/2024

So many memories 💖. Thank you to All who made this possible💞🐴