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08/17/2024

Very Important Please Read   www.harmonclassics.com   BRHJA Will Continue under the management of Harmon Classics Inc and Lewis Pack. Harmon Classics Inc is proud to announce that the BRHJA will be co

08/09/2024

Laura Kraut & the 14 yr old gelding Baloutinue at that infamous last fence in the individual show jumping at the Paris Olympics yesterday. The fence was 1.62m high and 1.35m wide and caught out so many of the 30 qualified combinations.

Laura age 58 is a three-time Olympic medallist. She was part of the Gold Medal winning team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. At the last two Olympic Games Laura set the record for oldest female athlete to win a medal for the USA and in doing so took Team Silver medal. US Equestrian British Equestrian
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08/08/2024

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08/02/2024

Our Olympic Silver Medallists 🇺🇸🥹

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07/21/2024

07/18/2024

Argentina, celebra este logro con orgullo!

07/14/2024

04/11/2024

Organized!!!

02/28/2024

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01/25/2024

The first Longines League of Nations competition is on the horizon! 🌅

Representing the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from Feb. 8-11 will be the following athletes:

🇺🇸 Alise Oken (Charlotte, N.C.)
🇺🇸 Callie Schott (Wellington, Fla.)
🇺🇸 Hannah Selleck (Westlake Village, Calif.)
🇺🇸 Aaron Vale (Williston, Fla.)

For more information ➡️ https://www.usef.org/media/press-releases/us-equestrian-announces-netjets-us-jumping-22

01/18/2024

09/22/2023

Trainer Wesley Ward detailed what he feels is important when buying a horse to race – and what is not.

09/18/2023

The course for the inaugural American Gold Cup in 1970 was heralded as helping to bring European-style grand prix jumping with natural obstacles to the United States. Check out the course designed by Show Jumping Hall of Famer D. Jerry Baker that started with a brick wall and featured a bank-and-water complex, an open water jump, and a grob (a closed combination of three obstacles that dips down to a ditch or water under the middle jump). Hall of Famer Conrad Homfeld emerged the winner on Act I.

Image courtesy of the Chagrin Valley PHA

09/12/2023

Barcelona bound. ✈️

US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes representing the NetJets U.S. Jumping Team for the FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Final at CSIO Barcelona--one of two remaining qualification opportunities for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for the U.S. Jumping Team.

🔷 Karl Cook (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.)
🔷 Laura Kraut (Royal Palm Beach, Fla.)
🔷 Devin Ryan (Long Valley, N.J.)
🔷 Jessica Springsteen (Colts Neck, N.J.)
🔷 McLain Ward (Brewster, N.Y.)

Learn more: https://bit.ly/45SuZnC

08/01/2023

BY Sarah K. Susa I’m certainly not the first to note the decline of the barn rat. There’s been so much chatter recently about the absence of tweens and teens around the stable, and the problems that lack of time and subsequent learning may cause for the future of the industry. Today’s horse wo...

07/17/2023

Congratulations to Mackenzie Klein as one of SGA’s most winning riders in Children’s Jumpers!!! …

06/26/2023

If I had a nickel for every time I heard a client say they wanted to make their trainer proud of them… and I get it, I understand the motivation. It’s a noble cause! However, when you create added pressure about getting a good prize at the horse show or finding 8 amazing distances at the jumps, it just locks you up and gets in the way. So I made this list to help you adjust your focus and balance your mindset. There are so many ways to win… and your trainer appreciates them all. 👏🏆🌟💫

www.tonyajohnston.com

05/26/2023

Developing Empathy

Frustrated by your horse? Try this---

Go for a run. Yes, you, human rider. Intersperse your run with sets of push-ups. See how long it takes before you lose athletic buoyancy, before you “just can’t.”

Fatigue in a horse, which is pretty much the same thing that you just felt, creates leaning, tripping, stumbling, slow reactions, poor coordination, lugging on the hand, all sorts of what you may be mistaking for “bad behavior.”

The tired horse will feel just like a “disobedient” horse. And then what will happen to that horse if the rider doesn’t tune into the horse’s fatigue? You know exactly what will happen to the horse. It will get drilled on. Drilled on just when the exact opposite should happen.

Trainers who lack the ability to sense what the horse is going through are among the worst drillers, and they create tense, scared, resistant horses, and they then do something even worse, they blame the horse.

Change your mind set. Think how YOU would feel if you had gotten beyond your limits and then got ground on and punished to fix your bad behavior.

You think I’m kidding? You think this isn’t going to happen today, all across the world where people ride and drive horses? That unfit for the task horses won’t be cranked and pressured? Dream on.

The best thing that you can do if your goal is to become a competent trainer is to constantly be aware of your own frustration meter. And stop before you create damage, physical and emotional injury and distress. Get a little and end on that. If even a little seems elusive, DO NOT GRIND. Go walk, try again tomorrow. Don’t add fear and anxiety to the training process.

I will say this one more time---“Don’t add fear and anxiety to the training process.”

Why am I saying this so often? Because if I had learned this decades sooner, I would have been a far better trainer and horse person---That’s why. Learn, if you are capable of doing so, from the mistakes that others have made. Do not drill your horse.

05/24/2023

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05/08/2023

Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

*thank you to whoever wrote this! Not my words, but certainly a shared sentiment!

04/20/2023

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04/20/2023

This was my “Gem Twist!”