BB Barn

08/30/2024

Great night for a big group trail ride!

08/28/2024

Scout getting some love!!❤️

08/28/2024

Pahlmer playing with Scout ba****ck in a halter!

08/26/2024

Welcome Scout to BB Barn for boot camp training! He’s an 8-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse! I’m so excited to see his progress!!

08/26/2024

Tango, Ferdinand, Eva and Rowan….. looked like an old war movie when I went to feed! No they’re not dead. 😂

08/25/2024

Way to go everyone day 2 of riding at the Preble County Horse Show. Waylon and Star (3rd); Pahlmer and Dienstag SH (2nd, 4th, 4th, 4th); Michelle and Flash (4th), Ashley Tragesser and Threat (2nd, 1st); Ena and Louisiana 500 (2nd)!

08/25/2024

08/25/2024

Great day of fun!!

08/25/2024

Day 2 Preble County Horse Show costume class! AJ and Jasper dressed as Apple Jack (4th) and Ena and Louisiana 500 dressed as Hula dancers!!

08/25/2024

Great start of day 2 at the Preble County Horse Show! Michelle and Dienstag SH (1st, 3rd, 5th); Waylon and Star (5th); Ena and Louisiana 500 (4th)!

08/24/2024

Congratulations Pahlmer/Dracula (1st, 1st, 4th) and Avery/Tango (4th)! Both horses are adoptions from Copper Horse Crusade!

08/24/2024

Everyone did a great job on day 1 of the Preble County Horse show! Way to represent yourselves and your barn!!

08/24/2024

Preble County Costume class! Pahlmer and Dracula dressed as the headless horseman!

08/24/2024

First half of day one at the Preble County Horse show!

08/24/2024

Here we go!!! Preble county horse show!!

08/24/2024

Show prepping for a weekend of fun at the Preble County Fairgrounds!!

08/21/2024

We are excited to have Andi starting up in BB Barn’s riding lesson program! Let’s all make sure we give her a big BB Barn welcome!!

08/21/2024

Thank you Lebanon Equine Clinic for taking such good care of Ferdinand when he choked. He’s feeling much better now. ❤️

08/18/2024

BB Barn is excited to be attending the show!!!

Get prepaired for the 2024 August Relaxed Show, show bills, entry forms and a packing checklist are available to download and print from our website at www.bcsaddlehorse.com

08/18/2024

My first ride on Ferdinand! ❤️

08/04/2024

Luv this guy!! ❤️ Fuerst Ferdinand

08/02/2024

Lola and Jasper visited the Habitat Environmental Center in Kettering, OH for their camp. Jacob from Dave Johnson Farrier Service showed the kids how he trims and shoes horses.

08/02/2024

Today O’Hara graduated from BB Barn’s training program. I’m so excited to watch her and Michelle Simpson Eggletonbecome amazing partners.

07/23/2024

Meet the newest member of the BB Barn family, Fuerst Ferdinand SH. He is a 3-year-old Hanoverian gelding and is already a big boy! 🐴

07/10/2024

Good read guys!!

The FEI definition states:
"Contact is the soft, steady connection between the rider's hand and the horse's mouth. The horse should go rhythmically forward from the rider's driving aids and 'seek' contact with the rider's hand, thus 'going into' the contact. The horse seeks the contact, and the rider provides the contact."

There are a few key points in that definition that we want to break down.

1 - “…soft, steady connection…”
A correct connection is consistent and elastic. Only if your contact is still can your horse respond to the lightest of the rein aids. A 'busy' contact (where you fiddle with the reins) will make it difficult for your horse to decipher your aids due to too much background noise.

2 - "The horse should go rhythmically forward from the rider's driving aids and 'seek' contact with the rider's hand…"
The contact is created by your horse moving forwards into the contact. It is not created by you taking a tight hold of your horse's mouth, creating backward pressure on the bit or downward pressure on the poll.

3 - "The horse seeks the contact and the rider provides the contact."
When the contact is established correctly, it is your horse that 'connects' to the bit and your hands, not your hands forcing a contact on your horse.

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07/08/2024

Go Pahlmer and Dracula!

07/04/2024

Have a safe fun 4th of July!!

07/01/2024

Working on canter transitions with O’Hara.

06/30/2024

Cinco getting a little rehab with Ash!!

06/18/2024

Good visual guys!!

Dressage Solutions: To keep your horse straight ...

Imagine you are riding him on a balance beam. You need to keep him between your leg, seat and hand to keep him centered on the beam.
—Anna Buffini

Anna Buffini is one of eight athlete-and-horse combinations selected to the 2024 Paris Olympics U.S. Dressage Team Short List.

Thanks to Blue Seal for our coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including rider interviews, competition reports, horse spotlights, photos, videos and more.