Anne Prescott Stables

05/06/2023

A certain feline was thoroughly enjoying the sunshine this morning … along with everyone else in NH!

01/24/2023

06/13/2022

Dressage clinic in Goffstown: There is room for one or two more riders either day, 6/18 and 6/19, with Georges Malleroni, a well respected master trainer and instructor making a stop in Goffstown next weekend. Plenty of room for trucks and trailers, and auditors are welcome for a small fee. Please PM me for the details. Clinic location is Anne Prescott Stables. This is a low-key clinic in a very quiet location. Come and jump start your riding this season, get help with some fundamentals and/or develop better communication with your horse! All levels welcome.

04/07/2018

Not many at the farm compete, but this is still very entertaining ... and very true! 🐴

Funniest thing I’ve seen on Facebook in a long time 😂😂 Wish I could give the author credit but have no idea who wrote it.

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 USET 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 First Level 4 by a Quarter Horse.

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.

06/23/2016

This article is a nice review of warm-up arena etiquette. For both the riders and their supporters on the ground, there are some good points to remember and consider! :)

  The unspoken rules of warm-up - Do you need a refresher? Warm-up: A usually crowded area where you and your fellow competitor...

02/07/2016

This was almost completely bare until yesterday happened ...

09/12/2015

Our new friend Vivian with Avita! :)

08/19/2015

Fourth day in a row the horses are in by noon. We love summer, but also very much looking forward to temps in the 70s next month and much less humidity!

02/22/2015

Perfect February day ... and the doors of the barn and indoor are open! :)

02/17/2015

People who live in warmer places are probably enjoying looking out their windows at their black, brown, red, yellow, gray, and white equine friends. At APS we acknowledge that not everyone blankets their horses, but looking outside at the purple, green, teal, navy blue, green/gray, black/gray, and even red Herringbone tweed blankets the horses are sporting definitely adds a much needed splash of color to the totally white landscape right about now! :)

01/13/2015

When the best farrier in NH tells you he wishes your barn was closer to where he lives so he could board his horses with you for the winter. Nicest compliment ever! Thanks George! :)