Inside Track Training, LLC

01/10/2025

01/09/2025

I wanted to thank Mikah Wysocki for working with ITT Midas Touch (“Midas”)! Young Midas became very shy and standoffish after weaning. Mikah took him in and worked on gaining his trust, start his basic training, and now he’s a very curious and social young boy!

01/09/2025

Wanted to give Cayla Stone and her assistant Sera Mendoza at Mythos Equestrian a huge shout out regarding their amazing job with my 3 1/2 year old Rhys Above ITT (“Rise”)!! I can’t wait to bring him home next week and start riding him myself.

01/09/2025

You may wonder why we pull back into the syringe when giving injections in the vein. This picture explains why. We don't pull back to make sure we're in the vessel, we do it to make sure we're in the RIGHT vessel. Today I went to give an injection and pulled back and saw blood brighter than I wanted. I decided to go and get a new dose of sedation and once again pulled back and then gave my dose of sedation. The syringe on the left was my first injection and the syringe on the right was my second injection. Does anyone know why I shouldn't have injected that first syringe? And had I injected that first injection, what would have happened?

01/08/2025

Scarlett’s 4th and last foal, Ty (Thyme to Shine ITT, by Jayson) is 1 1/2 years old. He’s always looked so grown up and is pushing 16h already. He’s the nicest of her four babies - just look at that suspension! 😍🤩😍

01/08/2025

01/07/2025

There is a reason, I think, that horsemanship is so hard to teach, and that is because it's truly an art and not a science.

You can go to school for art. You can learn from masters of a particular art form. You can study the chemical composition of your medium and learn about how those mediums behave in different circumstances. You can learn about the history of your art, how it originated and how it's evolved. You can study trends and dabble in different methodologies.

But no matter what, in order to become an artist, you have to experience it. You have obsess over it. You have to go to bed thinking about it and get up thinking about it. You have to become a little bit consumed by it. It drives your passion and your curiosity. You have to dedicate a part of your soul to its inception, creation and development. In some ways, you have to get to the point where you cannot separate yourself from it, as it has become a part of you and you of it.

I have received requests in the past asking me to write more about specific techniques, "how-to's", if you will. I will admit I struggle with this because it feels to me kind of like someone asking me how to have a conversation. I can give you a very general framework, but a conversation is intimate and personal. To write one for someone else would seem to me to be a request to boil down everything that is beautiful and awe-inspiring about horsemanship into base mechanical elements: important, but ultimately in my experience not AS important as the energy, flow and feeling of what is happening between the horse and the human.

Yes, you need a basic skillset to be an artist. You need to know how to hold the brush. You need to know how to choose a canvas. You need to know a thing or two about how your medium behaves and how to bring out the best in it.

But what ultimately creates art is the person behind the tools and the feeling within them. And since no teacher can create this for you, we simply have to try and set up scenarios and allow space and spark inspiration for people to go seek it within themselves.

01/05/2025

Yes!!!

Absolutely!! 🤗🤗🤗

01/04/2025

This boy… ❤️. We won some things this year! I certainly didn’t set out at the bringing of this season with goals to end this way… I really just wanted this year to be a year of confidence building for both Gift and myself. Even though we had to stop the season mid way for Gift to have stifle surgery (which he is still in rehab for) we did end up doing pretty great! I’m a very proud horse mom! Thank you to all of the organizers, volunteers, farm owners, and my entire support network for helping Gift and I get out there and start jumping some stuff this year! It really was a ton of fun!

01/02/2025

The horse first, always. 🦄

12/27/2024

I learned about WHERE my breath was and that helped so much! When a horse escalates most of us start breathing high up in our chest. That’s our own anxiety, our own escalation. I learned to push my breath back down towards my belly and ground myself there. This calms me, slows my heartbeat, slows my breathing, settles my nerves, and allows me to slow down everywhere and think clearly. Horses really respond to this.

When things ramp up, and the horse becomes emotionally elevated, that’s when they need you the most.

It’s normal and natural to become concerned with your own safety- and it makes sense why people become emotionally disrupted as well. Frustration at the horse’s behavior, fear, impatience, anger, whatever it is that strikes you in these moments is only human

But the important thing in the moment of a horse becoming upset, anxious, even dangerous in behavior- is for us to provide help, stability, direction.

What many horses get in these moments is correction without direction, abandonment, more disregulation, and an amplification of emotion. They learn not to look for human support but to try to get away-

It takes navy seal level training to condition ourselves to regulate, to stay calm, to provide support and not panic and freeze; or to react without thinking. The lead rope is in your hands, after all- and the horse has only you to rely on in this moment. What do you hope they learn in these moments? You either can help, or you’re in the way-

A good match of horse and human is crucial, and of course, ongoing dedication to being able to be that someone who can really help. Not just curb behavior, not shut it down, and surely not to panic or escalate- but to really support, and provide stability and calm i these moments. That is what a horse really needs.

Will you be that person?

12/27/2024

Well WOW! I got a ribbon in the mail from USEA and had no idea Gift and I had placed Nationally! What fun! And what a GOOD BOY!!!

12/20/2024

12/18/2024

Anyone looking for a nice horse at a great price?