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08/23/2024

Welcome home, Cardenala! Congratulations Alejandra 🥰 we can’t wait to watch your partnership grow!

08/23/2024

Under the rainbow this morning 🌈🥰

08/17/2024

Congratulations to our 2023- 24 year end award winners! Logan Nilsen and My Wish- Reserve Champion Beginning Crossrails, 3rd place overall Young Hunter ring. Charlotte Rodriguez and One Fine Sensation- 5th place beginning crossrails, 9 th overall Young hunter ring. Isaac Wise and Dagano VDW Z- champion Training jumpers. Is everyone ready for the new season?

08/15/2024

This is why your turn does not come from pulling on the rein. Note the riders hand and leg position and hip angle in each sketch. Note the development of the horses muscles in each sketch. Note the shape of the horse in each sketch. A truly supple, truly bent horse is working through their entire body. It is OUR job as the rider to guide the horse to become soft, supple, and through in all movements.

Rider one is pulling the nose around, and trying to push the haunches in, with a following outside rein offering the horse no balance, and a hardly supportive inside leg to wrap around. This has created a rigid, stiff horse that will surely be back sore, weak in the hind end, with front end bulk in all the wrong places. This horse has every opportunity, and will likely be so uncomfortable that it will try every time, to run out of his right shoulder.

Rider two is pushing the horse from his inside leg to his outside rein. The outside rein is providing a balance point for the horse, allowing him to be both comfortable and willing to carry himself. Because the riders rein is supportive and blocking the shoulder, the horse can not blow out the shoulder, and can only become truly bent along the entire length of the spine.

In order to build the athlete you want, and to allow your horse the opportunity to have a long, successful, and most importantly SOUND career, it is important to understand how we ride, even in seemingly simple tasks such as the walk or trotting circles, is effecting each muscle in your horses body. Not all muscle is good muscle!

- Ali Hamann / South Coast Sport Horses

08/10/2024

Dani and Dolly 😍

08/07/2024

WEC VIII- Nicole and Indy shined in both the hunter and jumper rings, bringing home ribbons in the .80, and the low adults

08/06/2024

WEC VIII- Isaac and Freddy brought their A game to Ocala, bringing home Reserve Champion in the .90’s, and a first and second in the .85! 🥳

08/06/2024

WEC VIII- Sander and Franko move up to the 2’6” in their second show together, earning a 4th and 6th in the low children’s, plus a 10th in the classic!

08/06/2024

WEC VIII - Tuni and Bolo were 3 ring threats last week with ribbons in the jumpers and equitation, including a 5th in a large .85 jumper class!

08/04/2024

Major and Victoria bring home an 8th in the 2’6” non-pro hunter derby 😁

08/03/2024

Nicole and Indy found their groove in the jumper ring, earning a 4th in a very competitive.80 class!

08/03/2024

Hat Trick! 🎩 Isaac and Freddy bring home another blue ribbon in the .90 today!🥇

08/02/2024

Major and Bolo showing off their swag!

08/02/2024

Oops! He did it again! Isaac and Freddy win the .90 jr. Jumper😍😍😍

08/01/2024

What?!? Isaac and Freddy winner of the open .85 out of 24!! 🥇🙌🏼

08/01/2024

Cookies for good boys!

08/01/2024

It’s hard to wrangle 20 people into one picture! Celebrating the end of a very successful first day of showing 😁

07/30/2024

Great schooling for everyone today!

07/29/2024

Next stop, Wec ocala!

07/25/2024

Fun fact! Our horses are talented artists!

07/24/2024

More ba****ck awesome-ness

07/24/2024

Ba****ck rock- STAR!

07/24/2024

Getting ready for WEC!

07/19/2024

My boy, Stanley 😍

07/17/2024

Major vibes this morning! ✨

07/13/2024

"New Home Syndrome"🤓

I am coining this term to bring recognition, respect, and understanding to what happens to horses when they move homes. This situation involves removing them from an environment and set of routines they have become familiar with, and placing them somewhere completely different with new people and different ways of doing things.

Why call it a syndrome?

Well, really it is! A syndrome is a term used to describe a set of symptoms that consistently occur together and can be tied to certain factors such as infections, genetic predispositions, conditions, or environmental influences. It is also used when the exact cause of the symptoms is not fully understood or when it is not connected with a well-defined disease. In this case, "New Home Syndrome" is connected to a horse being placed in a new home where its entire world changes, leading to psychological and physiological impacts. While it might be transient, the ramifications can be significant for both the horse and anyone handling or riding it.

Let me explain...

Think about how good it feels to get home after a busy day. How comfortable your favourite clothes are, how well you sleep in your own bed compared to a strange bed, and how you can really relax at home. This is because home is safe and familiar. At home, the part of you that keeps an eye out for potential danger turns down to a low setting. It does this because home is your safe place (and if it is not, this blog will also explain why a lack of a safe place is detrimental).

Therefore, the first symptom of horses experiencing "New Home Syndrome" is being unsettled, prone to anxiety, or difficult behaviour. If you have owned them before you moved them, you struggle to recognise your horse, feeling as if your horse has been replaced by a frustrating version. If the horse is new to you, you might wonder if you were conned, if the horse was drugged when you rode it, or if you were lied to about the horse's true nature.

A horse with "New Home Syndrome" will be a stressed version of itself, on high alert, with a drastically reduced ability to cope. Horses don't handle change like humans do. If you appreciate the comfort of your own home and how you can relax there, you should be able to understand what the horse is experiencing.

Respecting that horses interpret and process their environments differently from us helps in understanding why your horse is being frustrating and recognising that there is a good chance you were not lied to or that the horse was not drugged.

Horses have survived through evolution by being highly aware of their environments. Change is a significant challenge for them because they notice the slightest differences, not just visually but also through sound, smell, feel, and other senses. Humans generalise and categorise, making it easy for us to navigate familiar environments like shopping centres. Horses do not generalise in the same way; everything new is different to them, and they need proof of safety before they can habituate and feel secure. When their entire world changes, it is deeply stressful.

They struggle to sleep until they feel safe, leading to sleep deprivation and increased difficulty.

But there is more...

Not only do you find comfort in your home environment and your nervous system downregulates, but you also find comfort in routines. Routines are habits, and habits are easy. When a routine changes or something has to be navigated differently, things get difficult. For example, my local supermarket is undergoing renovations. After four years of shopping there, it is extremely frustrating to have to work out where everything is now. Every day it gets moved due to the store being refitted section by section. This annoyance is shared by other shoppers and even the staff.

So, consider the horse. Not only are they confronted with the challenge of figuring out whether they are safe in all aspects of their new home while being sleep deprived, but every single routine and encounter is different. Then, their owner or new owner starts getting critical and concerned because the horse suddenly seems untrained or difficult. The horse they thought they owned or bought is not meeting their expectations, leading to conflict, resistance, explosiveness, hypersensitivity, and frustration.

The horse acts as if it knows little because it is stressed and because the routines and habits it has learned have disappeared. If you are a new human for the horse, you feel, move, and communicate differently from what it is used to. The way you hold the reins, your body movements in the saddle, the position of your leg – every single routine of communication between horse and person is now different. I explain to people that when you get a new horse, you have to imprint yourself and your way of communicating onto the horse. You have to introduce yourself and take the time to spell out your cues so that they get to know you.

Therefore, when you move a horse to a new home or get a new horse, your horse will go through a phase called "New Home Syndrome," and it will be significant for them. Appreciating this helps them get through it because they are incredible and can succeed. The more you understand and help the horse learn it is safe in its new environment and navigate the new routines and habits you introduce, the faster "New Home Syndrome" will pass.
"New Home Syndrome" will be prevalent in a horse’s life until they have learned to trust the safety of the environment (and all that entails) and the humans they meet and interact with. With strategic and understanding approaches, this may take weeks, and their nervous systems will start downgrading their high alert status. However, for some horses, it can take a couple of years to fully feel at ease in their new home.

So, next time you move your horse or acquire a new horse and it starts behaving erratically or being difficult, it is not being "stupid", you might not have been lied to or the horse "drugged" - your horse is just experiencing an episode of understandable "New Home Syndrome." And you can help this.❤

I would be grateful if you could please share, this reality for horses needs to be better appreciated ❤
‼️When I say SHARE that does not mean plagiarise my work…it is seriously not cool to copy and paste these words and make out you have written it yourself‼️

07/11/2024

No scope, no hope! 🤣

07/10/2024

Summmmmertime!😎

07/03/2024

Pretty specific ISO:
Max budget ✌🏿👋, ###
Florida only
First jumper/ local 3 ring type to bring a kid up to the .95
Long skinny 12 year old rider that is soft with great feel, but gets intimidated on a horse that builds/ has too much blood.
Needs to be able to be handled by the kid and do kid stuff.

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