Celtic Cross Farm

07/30/2023

07/26/2023

07/22/2023

Johnny Bettencourt says, "'31 ." Nice truck.

07/22/2023

So very true! Happy Friday everyone! We hope you all had a great week and have an even better weekend! Also remember, don't forgot to stop and smell the flowers, I mean horses this weekend! 😄😉❤🐴

07/22/2023

Wednesday night the queens are asked to represent their home state in the grand entry. Ellie Stewart definitely had the contestants, the crowd, and the announcers attention as she and her partner rode in on with their John Deere! NHSRA

07/10/2023

RECIPE: https://www.tosimplyinspire.com/strawberry-cheesecake-bars.html
These Strawberry Cheesecake Bars are the best sweet, creamy cheesecake with a swirl of strawberry jam and a delicious easy graham cracker crust!

06/29/2023

Pie Eagle
📷 photo credit to respective owner

06/16/2023

06/16/2023

De directe link naar de foto's van de Royal Windsor Horse Show:
https://www.oypo.nl/639332CB00FB8EE3

06/14/2023

I have said this about 5,000 times already, but because it is so important, I will say it some more---

Let's say that you are training a horse to improve in some special skill sets. It might involve jumping, or dressage, or reining patterns, but the training that you are doing involves repetition of some sort.

If you turn training into drilling, where you practice relentlessly, the horse will probably get uncomfortable physically, and at least a little "fried" mentally and emotionally.

What if 2, maybe 3 days a week, you either worked for only 15-20 minutes on the skill set, and then just went for a nice walk in the woods and meadows? Or, better still, did no practice work some days, and only went out for a somewhat long but low stress hack?

The walking does two things. It builds a base of fitness, and it creates an educational atmosphere that is low key and low stress.

It makes no sense to me that so many upper level riders "farm out" all the hacking to others, because it is out on the trail that horses learn to deal with terrain, with footing, with crossing water, with seeing all sorts of weird "stuff."

It is just as educational outside the ring as inside the ring, only about different situations. So, for a better, sounder, fitter, calmer horse, break it up. Less drilling, more quiet hacking.

06/13/2023

Got a few commissions on the go but always need a horse in my life!! still wet so can't wait for him to dry.

02/05/2023

07/12/2022

Love this

05/19/2022

05/18/2022

Top photo today
This will go to Mike Malone at Windsor really beautiful photo.

05/17/2022