Morning Glory Equestrian

09/19/2025

London is having a baby! By Paynter's Boy. So excited for this foal due July 2026. ❤️

09/16/2025

This is pretty impressive!

While many begin their athletic careers on the track at 3 years old in shorter sprints, WMA Hes the One (RB Wild Card x Shestheone) did the 550-mile Colorado Trail as a pack horse with Ken Wolgram. Here’s the story of “Javier” told by Ken’s friend Phoebe Bechtolt:

“This trail goes from south of Denver to Durango, Colorado. 550 miles, 9,000 feet of elevation gain with a high point of 13,300 feet. He rode a rescue Egyptian Arabian named T-Rex. This horse carried 250 pounds and was his main saddle horse and ‘is one tough son of a beach and incredibly strong.’ His main pack horse was Javier. A 3-year-old Arabian gelding. He is registered and from Welcome Arabians. WMA He’s the One (RB Wild Card x WMA Shestheone). He is only 3 and was a super pack horse, steady-headed, great on the technical stuff. His third pack horse for the first 300 miles was his 25 year old Half-Arabian, Awesome’s Fire and Ice. VERY few people can handle this ride as a ‘thru ride.’ Ken did it in 25 days, almost no support and alone.”

Phoebe said about the future, “He’s the One will be doing some mountain and trail riding and possibly some endurance rides. He has a great temperament and excellent stamina. I originally bought him. We liked that he was a black bay and no white, and we liked the bloodlines from his sire, RB Wild Card.”

It takes a special horse to do the Colorado trail, and Javier proved that “Hes the One”!

We LOVE Arabian Horses Arabian Horse Association

09/01/2025

Truly the foundation! Help your horse travel straight. For the rider, the first requirement is to be able to feel whether the horse is straight or not.

STRAIGHTENING the horse is - to many - one of the great mysteries of dressage and a precondition for success in any equestrian discipline. Here the HDV12 on the WHY the horse is crooked. The HOW is described in subsequent chapters:
"The influences used by the rider to align the forehand with the haunches are called straightening. The straightened horse—moving on one track—should always align the longitudinal axis of its body with the track, irrespective of whether the track is straight or curved. Only then, the driving power of the hindquarters acts in a straight direction and fully affects the forehand.
The fulfillment of this requirement is made difficult by the peculiar tendency of most horses to carry themselves crookedly. As a result of this crookedness, front and hind feet do not track up. The fact that the horse is narrower in the forehand than in the hindquarters further contributes to this crookedness.
With rare exceptions, it is usually the right hind foot that the horse finds harder to place straight forward under the body......"
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08/30/2025

Equine teeth are so fascinating!

08/28/2025

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Wednesday Wisdom - Today, we quote Erik Herbermann... "Our riding will more consistently embody beauty and joy when we are motivated by respect and love for the horse. This outlook, above all, helps us to overcome the inevitable difficulties encountered on the way."

This seemingly simple quote exemplifies the essence of a good rider, horse trainer and horse owner. If the rider trains from a place of love and respect, the horse will respond in kind. He will be much more willing and capable. Negative tension will be minimized and the horse will be able to perform optimally.

Photo taken from the Dressage Formula.

08/17/2025

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“Horsemanship is the art of mastering our own movements, thoughts, emotions and behavior. Not the horses.” ✍️

07/30/2025

Dentist day with Dr Kari of Advance Equine Dentistry at horse camp this morning!

07/27/2025

Paris is the prettiest!

07/01/2025

Pepper and I got to be on TV! Fox 21 did a little spot with my friend, Danny Chapparo of Ashva Yoga and we got to tag along 🥰. Watch the 5 min clip here: https://www.fox21news.com/living-local/equestian-yoga-at-ashva-yoga/

06/09/2025

“Just one more time!”
Knowing when to quit is an art form.

When we are working on something new, or something we (or the horse) aren’t yet proficient at, it’s very tempting to want to keep pushing that can down the road.

Work ethic is extremely valuable. Without it, you won’t get far as a rider. You need the willingness to push a little bit - both yourself and the horse, to increase fitness, confidence, experience and more.

If we don’t stretch the rubber band, we never grow

But if we overstretch the rubber band, it snaps back.

It’s far better to get a better effort toward correct, than a hundred bad movements, pushing to perfect.

It’s far better to notice the effort in the right direction than to get greedy and lose all interest from the horse.

It’s far better to exercise muscles less intensely but more correctly, than to burn them out and create compensation.

As all things in riding require, a balance must be sought:

Between too much and not enough
Between working and accepting
Between appreciating and pushing

We have to find that new line every single day, every moment, and be careful not to let the green goblin of “he can do better…just one more” take over and rob the horse because of their good nature.

05/01/2025

Truth

04/26/2025

Happy 11th birthday, Spartan!! ❤️🦄🥳