Spot On Stable

08/07/2024

Spot On Stable has 1or 2 stalls available for the perfect border. Someone who likes riding in the ring and possible field trips with BVTR, shows or.. . possible work for part of your board (currently $550 but shavings just went up) options. Opinionated mares welcome.

05/31/2024

Lesson spot available tomorrow (sat) 10:15

04/29/2024

Gaby and Coco could both use their own kid (or adult with goodies)
1/2 lease includes 1 lesson and 2 practice rides per week $325/month

04/28/2024

Looking for a working student who would post lots of horse pictures

04/26/2024

Looking for weekday AM working student to work for practice rides

03/18/2024

Lesson Spots Available for this beautiful weather.

01/20/2024

We will be closed today (Saturday)

01/14/2024

Needed
1 Working student to pick turnouts 2-3 times per week. Good for 2 practice rides a week. First lesson free to prove you can ride.

12/24/2023

Gift Certificates are available now!

10/27/2023

Our fall bonfire will be Saturday Nov 4 this year to avoid mosquitos. Everyone is invited, If you are going to bring something, please put it in the comments so we don't get all chips and no drinks.

10/26/2023

another angel looking for riders on Thursday Friday and Saturday. She'll teach you to ride and improve your intermediate skills.

10/18/2023

Gaby is waiting for new riders. Perfect for complete beginners or riders who are a little unsure. Spots open Thursday, Friday and Sunday

09/28/2023

Its a beautiful day. Drop in lesson available!

08/14/2023

08/06/2023

2 stalls available

08/06/2023

Could use some barn help a couple afternoons a week when school starts!
This is for practice rides, lessons extra.

08/05/2023

BY Maddy Brown One of my biggest frustrations in this industry is the lack of understanding and consideration for the role that lesson horses play. So often, I see riders complaining about lesson horses for a huge variety of reasons: for their perceived lack of quality or value, for having to ride o...

07/22/2023

So very true! Happy Friday everyone! We hope you all had a great week and have an even better weekend! Also remember, don't forgot to stop and smell the flowers, I mean horses this weekend! 😄😉❤🐴

06/08/2023

Use the 5 Point Safety Check When Selecting a Helmet

05/18/2023

Balance and straightness lead to happier, healthier horses.

so... how does this work?

When the horse is balanced, he will be able to relax because he no longer feels that he may fall down (and be eaten by the lion lurking in the bush behind C).

The crooked, unbalanced horse will become nervous, scared, and anxious because he is worried that he may fall down at any moment. As a prey animal (which horses are), this is a dangerous predicament. A prey animal is most vulnerable when they fall down.

For this reason, the crooked and unbalanced horse may become spooky, distracted, shying at everything that lurks in the shadows. He may be over-reactive and over-sensitive to the aids because he is on edge. It may seem silly to us, but he is instinctively worried about his survival.

When we help the horse improve his sense of body awareness and balance, he feels more in control of his body. He feels that he is no longer perilously helpless if something unexpected happens. The balanced horse feels secure and less vulnerable to falling down.

Therefore, he can relax, focus, and tune into the training work. He becomes less spooky, less distracted, and less over-reactive.

Balance depends fundamentally upon Straightness. Balance depends upon the horse’s ability to adeptly shift his balance longitudinally (front to back), laterally between each side of his body, and between different legs. The horse can not improve any of these things as long as he is crooked.

By working on Straightness, your horse’s balance will consequently improve. We work on the horse’s ability to shift the weight from side-to-side, front-to-back, and between the different legs. He becomes straighter and his balance improves.

When the horse is straight and balanced, he is happier. And healthier.

We have an online course that guides you through exactly this process, so you can train your horse to become straighter and better balanced, therefore happier and healthier.

Our next course starts Friday, May 26th.

Enroll here - https://courses.artisticdressage.com/straightness-course

Drawing by Assistant Ritter Trainer, Yvonne Lübcke. Come meet her inside the course!

05/16/2023

Stall opening in July. Three lesson spots left.

05/12/2023

😂🤣😂

03/24/2023

Lessons available wed - sun. Ages 8 - 80.

03/20/2023

lesson spots available Mon - Sun.

02/01/2023

MY LITTLE FARM ❤
“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive. The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.
There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.
“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.
Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.
Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.
If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.
When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.
You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.
You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.
You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.
You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.
Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.
You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.
Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.
You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.
Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”

01/21/2023

01/02/2023

Happy New Year! 🐎