Black Creek Stables

11/30/2023

05/22/2023

Temple Grandin to Give Keynote Address at the 2023 USEA Annual Meeting & Convention

05/08/2023

05/08/2023

04/24/2023

Our first Alabama show of the year is open for entries!! We are so excited to back at FullCircle Horse Park for another USEF/USDF rated show! Please remember that stalls are limited! So if you are needing a stall, make sure to enter early! 💕

Enter online by following the link to our website:

https://www.flightlinedressageshows.com/show-calendar

Huge thanks to our sponsors for making this show possible:
Triple Crown Feed
Mane Street Market
Pagan Gilman - Lisa Seger Insurance
Golden Horse Browbands

04/18/2023

12/23/2022

An excerpt from "Dressage for the Not-So-Perfect Horse" by 5* Dressage Judge Janet Foy.

11/05/2022

"You soften the neck by giving the outside rein, not by pulling."

Tyler and Ivan are soaking in the wisdom and direction of Charles de Kunffy to kick off the weekend.

If you are free, come join us at Mane Gait Equestrian Center in Natural Bridge, VA! Plenty of space for auditors.

11/03/2022

Lessons in Listening with Kim Walnes, The Gray Goose, and Gideon Goodheart

11/01/2022

We have an opening for the Cody Harrison clinic in December. Great opportunity.

03/21/2022

Thursday thru Sunday Cody Harrison from Colorado will be teaching a clinic here at Black Creek Stables. Rides start at 8am thru 7 pm. Auditing is $20 per day and we would love to have you come and learn.

02/16/2022

When your 5 years old.

11/09/2021

Only Mama’s Way TB mare

11/09/2021

Amazing Bets a mare bred by Adena Springs Farm. sire: Awesome Again, Dam: Beautiful Bets by Alphabet Soup.

03/09/2021

Cody Harrison clinic March 2021

08/26/2020

CH Equine, instructor Cody Harrison

06/29/2020

Wish I had made more pictures. If anyone can add some photos please do so. It was so fun. Thank you.

06/29/2020

Words Of Wisdom
By Denny Emerson

One absolute truth about training horses that it took me decades too long to understand is that it is impossible to "layer" training onto tension or anxiety or nervousness.

First, the trainer must figure out how to sooth away the tension. This will take as long as it takes, and may be tricky to figure out how to accomplish.

Once a horse is nervous, all that training will do is to increase the tension, unless that training is specifically aimed at getting the horse to relax and soften. Trying to train a nervous horse almost guarantees that it will make the horse more nervous, because training is asking for something specific, and it will require the horse to calmly accept various requests.
Of all the riding sins that I was guilty of, not comprehending this was the worst. I would pressure the horse to do "whatever," the horse would get more tense, which created resistance. I would take the resistance as disobedience, so I would increase the pressure, and that terrible downward spiral would begin.
If there is ONE word of advice----Calm first, training onto that.
If the horse gets tight or anxious, ease off, try something else.
DO NOT ESCALATE.

04/06/2020

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