Hidden Fox Farm

03/31/2024

some good information

I posted an article on Type One wounds recently (CLICK HERE for the link). Medicine being all organized and reductive and all, you had to know that if there’s a type one wound, there’s also a type two wound. Type two wounds are the wounds that make people nuts, probably because their healing, al...

10/31/2023

Happy Halloween from the Hidden Fox Farm family 🎃 We had a fabulous Fun Show on Sunday and our costumes were pretty awesome!! Good horses, good friends and good food always make for a lovely day.

05/28/2023

Jumping clinic! Good horses and good students ❤️ Thanks !!

02/07/2023

5 hours and 20lbs of hair later… TWO silver boys! 😅

02/04/2023

We have another announcement 🎉 the Campos family has purchased their first horse! After leasing two of our wonderful ponies in the last two years, Leah was ready for her first horse! Please help us welcome Winston! He is an 8 year old thoroughbred, who is already settling in and making new friends at HFF. Happy Gotcha Day big boy 💞

02/03/2023

We are so excited to announce the newest member of the Sullivan family! Palermo, affectionately known around the barn as Pal, is a 6 year old OTTB. He is Suzy’s new partner in crime, and we can’t wait to watch him grow and mature!

12/04/2022

Winter upgrade! We now have arena lights! A big thank you to Mike and Katy, and Paul of PES Electrical!

11/13/2022

how does your horse swirl?

Good morning BCH'ERS

10/31/2022

Such wonderful horses, and the kiddies ain't so bad either!

10/31/2022

Chase-Me-Charlie!!!

10/31/2022

Halloween Fun Show Part 1

10/25/2022

some good information

If you're starting to see your horse's ribs, or if he has a less-than-desirable topline, then he might need to build weight or muscle.

10/24/2022

The smiles say it all 🥰 So proud of our resident dressage queen Sara, and her partner Topper! ✨

10/20/2022

We hope to see you all there!

10/11/2022

Sara and Topper had their maiden voyage out on trail today! What a beautiful day ❤️

09/26/2022

Hidden Fox Farm had yet another amazing clinic with Elizabeth Johnson! Lots of fun, breakthroughs, and learning moments for everyone involved! These weren’t all of our riders (because Morgan sometimes gets so engrossed in the amazing lessons and forgets about her camera or leaves it at home 😝)

As always, we are so thankful to have such a supportive group of horse-lovers to share these special moments with!

06/27/2022

Thanks to our great crew for putting up the shade structure.

06/14/2022

Leah’s (and Bodie’s) birthday beach ride!

Thankful for our wonderful ponies ❤️

06/13/2022

SHADE!!! Getting closer!

06/07/2022

Working on our new shade structure today!

06/03/2022

Best blaze on the block!

05/30/2022

this is funny and too true

THE REAL RULES OF DRESSAGE
1. If you really want to get better at dressage, take it up at an earlier age - and grow an extra 3 inches of leg.
2. A dressage test is a test of your skill against another competitor's luck.
3. Dressage is about achieving a harmonious working relationship with your horse, whose only idea of harmony is eating grass in a field with his buddies.
4. If you want to end a drought or dry spell, wear a new jacket and hat to an outdoor arena.
5. Untalented, difficult, aggressive horses have robust health, good hocks and long lives.
6. Talented tractable horses are accident prone and have OCD lesions.
7. You will ride the best test of your entire life just prior to being disqualified for not wearing your gloves.
8. Never keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your head before a test.
9. Never keep less than another 300 separate thoughts in your head during a test.
10. Horses do not improve their paces because you are wearing expensive German breeches.
11. If you chose a disco theme for your dressage to music test then the judge will be more than 90 years of age and Swiss.
12. The less skilled the rider, the more likely they are to share their critique of your test.
13. If you are considering the services of a horse clairvoyant to help you with training then you have reached the point of total desperation - try the German breeches.
14.Your horse has never heard of Podhajsky, let alone read the book.
15. No matter how badly you ride a test, it is always possible to ride a worse one.
16. If it ain't broke, try shifting your position and it will be.
17. Judges only suffer from temporary blindness (or kindness) when they are judging someone else's test.
18. If you fall off your horse in the arena you will have paid to have the test videoed.
19. If you are feeling confident before a show then three of the GB dressage team will turn up to give their young horses some "experience."
20. Your horse will perform its best piaffe ever when you ask for extended canter.
22. Since runs of bad competitions come in groups of three, the fourth competition is actually the beginning of the next group of three.
23. No one cheats at dressage because no one has worked out how to do it.
24. It is surprisingly easy to end a test with a perfect square halt once you have scored a four for every other movement.
25. The result of an expensive lesson from a top pro is that you will stop believing in that tiny piece of innate ability that was holding your riding together.
26. Remember when buying a dressage horse advertised as "needs experienced competitive rider" this really means "needs the skills of Isabelle Werth just to stay on board."
27. If you think your test was better than someone else's, it probably wasn't.
28. If you pay £60,000 for an imported WB, you will be beaten in Prelim by a Welsh Cob, ridden by a 9 year old.
29. Clinics given by someone with an interesting accent are not necessarily superior to those given by the homegirl.
30. If you go to the expense of raising an expensive WB foal, he will have a talent for jumping and no walk worth talking about.