A. Loprete Stables

03/06/2025

Horses first, the rest later 😍
credits: tori.the.euestrian

03/04/2025

Love this story ❤️

Growing up in the city of Santos in São Paulo, Brazil, Michel Feitosa was sole horse lover in his decidedly non-equestrian family, so horse ownership was simply never an option. Instead, the man who has become a professional show jumper worked to access opportunities to train and develop his skills...

02/25/2025

You pay that hefty training bill for the month.

You look to have you horse in training as little as possible so it doesn’t break the bank.

You’re disappointed when after 30 days or 60 days or 90 days, there’s still more work to be done or the goal hasn’t been met. Worse yet, it looks good, you take the horse home and it unravels piece by piece. All that money “wasted”.

When you pay a trainer, that money isn’t paying for a result, it’s paying for someone’s skilled effort.

At least for me, when someone gets unhappy that their horse “isn’t fixed yet”, or comes “untrained” after it’s been home a while, makes the task of training horses for other people, discouraging. Discouraging because the efforts are being made, usually my best efforts that are filled with compassion, determination and lots of ruminating on how to fix complex issues a horse may have. Their disappointment becomes my failure basically. I know that’s not an actual truth but it’s never rewarding when someone is disappointed due to their own expectations.

Training a horse is NOT like being a mechanic on a car. Its not a tune up, it’s not the simple replacement of a part. It’s an animal with thoughts, feelings, emotions, habits, talents, etc. You don’t just program them, tune them up or replace a faulty part and send it back good as new.

You arent paying for results to happen within your timeline, you are paying for the time it takes to reach a desired result. The more complicated the project, the bigger the investment. The more baggage a horse has, the more effort it takes to unravel the mess. The bigger the goal, the greater the investment.

People send their horses to certain trainers because they want the outcome that trainer proves they can achieve. The problem is, people want that result in the shortest time frame possible because time, again, is money. It takes the time it takes to create the vision and time costs money. People who have a diy mentality, value the effort so much more when they themselves invest their own energy into a horse rather than just paying for it. I really feel that those who do it themselves, come to appreciate the efforts it takes far more than those who sign the check.

Be nice to your trainers, they work hard. 🙂

Credit goes to:
Katy Negranti Performance Horsemanship https://www.facebook.com/share/1BPC3yLZYx/

02/21/2025

If you visit Anne Kursinski’s Market Street facility in Frenchtown, New Jersey, you might notice a striking bay gelding with a broad blaze and four white socks being ridden by one of her students or her partner, Carol Hoffman. You might wonder about his breeding—until you remember that for Kursi...

01/27/2025

Our seniors getting some good soup to keep them hydrated this winter 🥣

01/25/2025

A leg at each corner
First published in 1962 and still in print.

01/25/2025

01/12/2025

Sound advice.

01/09/2025

It's been eight years since Fleet of Angels was responsible for feeding 600 horses. Many of you will remember the '907 Hallelujah Horses' mission we took on to save, feed, rehab, and place 907 starving, neglected, wild horses. Thanks to donations from the public and horse-centric organizations, that was a major nationwide event and a major nationwide success, with every survivor going to a safe new home with its best equine buddy or family.
Now we are needed for a completely different kind of emergency. We need to help the hundreds of horses that have been evacuated from the Los Angeles area fires. Fleet of Angels is the main provider of feed and other critical needs for these horses. Last night we had to rush 90 bales to one location in order for the 200 horses there to have an evening meal.
We have to make sure all these horses - over 600 so far, have feed while in the care of these centers - and maybe afterwards for some time, as well.
Please help us help them. We can only do this if we have the support of horse lovers all over America. I know we can do it- with your help.

Please contribute what you can at www.FleetOfAngels.org. They depend upon us and we depend upon you. Teamwork works!
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