A little bareback ground pole exercise!
Macarena and Avery rocked this 🥰
Emersyn and Fairy practicing simple lead changes tonight!
Emersyn just turned 10 yrs old and Fairy is a paso fino! They did so well with this and it was only their second time trying out this exercise.
We took a couple riders out to a little local saddle club show last night and we had a blast. ❤️
I'm so grateful for the opportunities this life gives me. Keep an eye out for camp photos tomorrow!
4 horses, 4 riders, 3 breeds, 3 different types of saddles.... we could say we're a little diverse here 😊
Here at our riding school we appreciate all horses...
Big and small
Sweet and spicy
Smooth and bouncy
I thought this would be a fun little comparison video between our tallest dude and one of our pasos!
One of our activities this week was to script, film, and edit an educational video!
Here's the last of 3. They had their choice of horse or no horse, which horse, and basically any thing. I just gave them topics.
Their topic was saddling a horse. Thank goodness Henry is a tolerant gentleman. They missed a strap on this saddle that none of our other saddles have, so just ignore that. But they did awesome
One of our activities this week was to script, film, and edit an educational video!
Here's the 2nd of 3. They had their choice of horse or no horse, which horse, and basically any thing. I just gave them topics.
Their topic was "horse safety."
I love this. When I asked what horse they wanted to use, they told me they were gonna be the horses as they didn't want to demonstrate unsafe behaviors with a real horse. They grow up so fast🥹
One of our activities this week was to script, film, and edit an educational video!
Here's the first of 3. They had their choice of horse or no horse, which horse, and basically any thing. I just gave them topics.
I love these kids. They came up with all of this.
I think Razzle was far more interested in eating grass than being a movie star but they managed🤣
When you get lemons make lemonade, right? We knew we had a windy day coming up for camp and when I went to the craft store Saturday I found these little foam unicorn planes on sale... I figured it would be hilarious, or disappointing or both... and both it was!
But we raced, and made it a competition with lots of laughs (mostly from me). It was a good day despite the wind ❤️
The beautiful macarena teaching a rider how to steer at a trot!
We love our horses. Macarena is a paso fino that we've owned since birth. ❤️🐎🦄
Campers racing around the world yesterday 😊
Those who know and love Razzle know this is an accomplishment... especially for a short person. She is not the most motivated of souls but we love her for being the calm quarter horse among our more spicy paso fino and thoroughbred crowd.
Spring break camp info coming soon... who's interested?
Not the best production value video with the uncooperative lighting but I'm so proud of this kiddo for riding fairy! She's a more challenging horse, so while we have a lot to work on, it was a big accomplishment ❤️
First time meeting her and they even cantered!
Fairy is one of 2 remaining school horses from my original program. A couple have passed on, a couple went to new homes, and a couple have retired. It's nice to see her get loved on again ❤️❤️
Ryan, who started riding with us this summer, and Ginger, who's only been undersaddle since September, navigating some of the obstacles together. The key is good preparation and patience. ❤️
One of my favorite skills to work on is our emergency dismount. It's easy to get comfortable and forget we are with large flight animals when we are riding trained school horses, but we have to also be ready for the possibility of something unexpected. Many students are excited about riding out onto our 67 acres this summer. We have to be prepared, though. Getting off of the horse quickly and safely is a skill that is better to have, and not need, than need, and not have.
I'm this 🤏🤏 close to offering midnight riding lessons 🌌🌌🌚
The weather is so hot☀️🌡 these days but we're lucky we have shade under our covered ring ☂️ as well as lights 💡💡 to be able to train after dark! Not to mention there's less bugs 🪰🪰 at night!
Does anyone know what type of horse 🐎🐎 Fairy 🧚♀️🧚♀️here is? It's definitely a unique ride! 🏇🏿🦄
Finding all these emojis took more time than I care to admit, I think the heat fried my brain into silly 😅
One of my favorite parts of our new farm here in Tennessee is the trails! Here's me and a student navigating a water crossing together!
The last few days have been bonkers. Saturday we had pony day from 9-4, Sunday we brought Cruz out to the southern equine expo to try our hand at a new discipline- working equitation, and today we had another pony day from 9-4!
It's been so much fun and so horsey. Looking forward to pony days the rest of this week. We still have openings for the two we just scheduled.
My homeschooling class has been so much fun! Today we learned ground work with horses including free lunging and lunging them. This young equestrian got to learn with macarena who is a great teacher.
I can't wait for the next session, who's interested in joining in next term for horsemanship 1?
I pulled this video out of the archives while looking for stuff with Cruz. I know why I held on to this guy all this time and I'm excited to a say that I think he's gonna stay, join the lesson program full time, and become my personal horse to bring out and about to promote our program. He's too cool to let go easy. ❤️
