Diamond Performance Horses

05/14/2024

What a great show this past weekend at The Texas Rose Spring Breed Show! It was a marathon of a horse show but we got her done!

Congratulations to Alexandra Philbrick and C-My Gunner winning the Amature, Limit Horse, Open and Open Championship in Hunter pleasure! 🎉🤩

Congratulations to Owners Amie & Genny VanDorn with their boy VSB Foxy Boy, this was his very first show, placing 3rd in Limit, 2nd in Open and Reserve in the Open Championship! 🥰

All the other boys did well and we are very proud of them all!

Genie Images thank you for some great pictures!

04/22/2024

"...Oliveira took several young trainers aside and asked us a series of questions.

"What were our goals? Did we wish to teach? To train horses, either personally or professionally? To compete?

The answers we gave him determined the direction of the conversation. When it came my turn, I answered: "I want to train horses."

He considered the answer with the sincerity it was given, then replied: "Then ride a lot of bad horses. I don't mean ride dangerous horses - you are too valuable now to get hurt - but ride
the difficult horses and learn."

He elaborated a little on this theme during our last interview.

"Nowadays riders learn one system because if they have a horse that isn't suitable for dressage they sell the horse and get another,
he observed. "So instructors now don't know the old systems - for instance, Baucher's flexions - and don't know how to use those
systems to improve the horse. Now everybody learns one way, but that doesn't mean that every horse will respond best to that way.

"You can take pieces of a different system and apply them, and riders can understand why they do something from a different system to correct specific problems. But no one teaches the other systems anymore, so riders don't learn to be able to do that."
- Stephanie Grant Millham

04/19/2024

Excited to announce, Treasure is confirmed pregnant and we have a heartbeat 🎉🥰 can’t wait to see this foal match again (ADC Pegasass x Harlan’s Azurean) expected February 2025. As always we couldn’t make any of this happen with out my parents Tempie Nichols Rood and Fenton Rood, and our spectator vet Lisa Mauzerall with Benchmark Animal Hospital!

04/08/2024

03/22/2024

We are so thankful 🥹

02/24/2024

We’ve all been there 😅

It happens! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

06/08/2023

You better pick someone that loves what you do. Because horses are a drug. It doesn't wear off, and people that don't have that drug will never understand. ~ Clinton Anderson

06/02/2023

Super proud of this young lady! Alexandra Philbrick you have seriously been putting in the work this week with these boys and it has PAID OFF! 💪🏻🥰 First “intentional” lope this week, driving your boy in a whole new arena almost flawlessly, and preping for your first regional Morgan show in 2 compleatly different divisions! We are so excited to see you making these leaps!

05/24/2023

So happy to have our final logo and name design! Thank you to Red Dirt Graphics for the amazing design, it’s exactly what I wanted!

05/18/2023

So proud of all our horses and clients that’s showed this last weekend at the SSMHA showcase! Got the 2 greenies out and they did better than we could have asked for! Flawless classes from both of our amazing clients! So very proud! Nothing makes a show better than great people and beautiful memories! Show pictures to come! We love our show family!🥰

03/30/2023

Congratulations to Mara Freiberg and family on their purchase of RJMF Zappa CH! We are very excited and looking forward to putting together this team for the 2023 Western/ Western Dressage division, and a BIG thank you to agent Adriana Day, Society Hill Farm LLC, and seller Judy Chamberlain for this sweet boy!

04/21/2021

The 21/90 day Rule.

Let's be real. I'm really tired of 30 day c**t start requests. If it worked, I'd promote it. I'm also exhausted of the question of why is it 30days and my horse has been barely rode and/or not all? Or why am I not seeing a lot of progress after the FIRST couple weeks?

It's the 21/90 day rule. Humans and horses I believe are fairly similar. It takes 21 days to form a habit, 90 days for a lifestyle change. I follow this rule in my fitness journey. Not saying it takes either/or that long but I do firmly believe this theory applies to horses in a fashionable timeline. How does it fluctuate? A horse that's 2 and not 5yrs old. A horse that has been guided through the steps with trust or was it rushed? Was the foundation solid or were some unfavorable habits formed? What's the horses genetics? Are the genetics favorable in a born broke mentality horse or is he a little fearful in starting? This all plays to the 21/90 day rule. Timing is critical in horse training, just like the timing in your progression with life. I've had horses that progressed fabulously in a 30 day tune up, some I was barely riding after 30 days for a c**t start. Long story short, stop being in a damn hurry! Now I didn't say, get your horse so broke to the tarp, now hes dead to your energy. Just make sure your horse trusts you when it's time to add the pressure.

Finally learned where this came from, and I want to give credit to Lucia Clemetson Performance Horsemanship for writing this. It's been shared a lot and has reached a lot of people who feel the same way. Thank you for your words!