Morning Star Equestrian Center, LLC

01/19/2025

01/18/2025

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01/13/2025

So brave

This deserved a spot on our feed. .fedorowycz.eq was helping evacuate horses out of Topanga and when this horse wouldn’t load, she rode it 14 miles to safety. Kalyna is brave beyond her years and we are so proud to know her. Thank you, Kalyna!!!

12/04/2024

There was no sniveling either. 😂 😭
But seriously, the Velcro. 👀🦵🏼

“I’m not saying the breeches of my younger days, say 1980-2000, were perfect, but they were designed for a generation of thick-skinned riders. Namby-pamby riders need not apply. Our riding pants were a zero-way-stretch affair with pant legs that ended mid-calf and fastened with newly popular Velcro that never quite closed. Imagine, if you will, enduring the 20-minute struggle of getting your leather boots on, only to find the pokey part of the Velcro closure rubbing against your skin whilst snagging on your nylons. We didn’t have time to take our boots off and put them back on, so we toughed it out. ‘Do your worst, Velcro,’ we’d say. And the Velcro did, rasping off little bits of skin until suitable divets were etched from our legs for it to rest for the day. Not only were things happening within our boots, but also just above the top of them. Due to the zero-way-stretch technology, our riding pants, aided by their leather knee patches, had the ability to press our precious kneecaps into unpredictable and unfavorable positions. Our coaches then, as they do now, yelled, ‘Quit gripping with your knees!’ and we, the hapless students, wondered, Then why are there leather knee patches on these stupid pants? Tradition, that’s why. The neat thing, other than the apparent uselessness of the aforementioned patches, was their constant ability to shrink in the wash due to a hot water oversight. This shrinkage meant that the material that sat beneath them would get bunched up and take to burrowing into the side of your knees. We also loved a side-zip breech because it meant we could also wear our belt sideways. Getting these pants done up was a tremendous way to isolate the exact location of your back pain. That quarter waist contort testing our desire for oxygen over fashion as we tucked things in, zipped things up, and got the belt perfectly off-center. I’m not saying that all these New Age breeches are for the birds, I’m just saying they appeal to the masses, whereas in my day, they appealed to the tall and slim. The rest of us just had to get on with it.”

Read Rebecca Berry’s historical account of breeches on Horse Network.

12/03/2024

🤣🤣🤣😏

The following is an actual, verbatim quote from an 84 year old mother to her 61 year old daughter----

"We are waiting for you to outgrow this "horse thing."

That has been asked and stated, in various ways, by countless parents and other "concerned" people to carriers of the "horse affliction" for decades, probably for centuries, perhaps for millenniums,

They are still waiting----------------------------------------

11/21/2024

Fantastic choice!!

The U.S. Dressage Federation and U.S. Equestrian Federation announced that the 2025 U.S. Dressage Finals are moving to the World Equestrian Center—Ohio next year and will remain in Ohio for 2026. The competition will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2025, and Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2026.

11/18/2024

Hang. In. There.

This advice will NOT be popular with those who want it RIGHT NOW, but nevertheless, here goes---

If the goal is to become two things, a good rider and a good horseman/horsewoman, be willing to think in decades rather than in years.

That first decade, from whatever age you began, will take you only so far, and may even take you to the Olympics, but riding skill alone won’t give you all you need to know and be able to do. The next couple of decades will let three components, your physical skills, your control over your emotions and your knowledge, all intertwined to complement one another.

That’s why many of the best riders and trainers are in their 40s, 50s and in some cases in their 60s, even 70s. They didn’t get those tens of thousands of hours overnight.

There are ever so many riders and trainers who gave up too soon. They just needed to have hung in there another ten years, maybe twenty. Which sounds insane, but actually isn’t.

11/16/2024

Coach Sando is coming back to the facility December 14th! DM or text me to reserve your spot!

11/09/2024

https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/news/new-study-identifies-distinct-gray-alleles-contributing-difference-rate-depigmentation?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ywaQSpoKntbvAHrvO_777_XUH2okLUwiR6RZiQbjxiiJ1bZxnCVMZhiA_aem_uDtKgBqNQ-TVTn6nB0bZjA

A newly published study led by Dr. Leif Andersson and colleagues at Uppsala University in collaboration with researchers at the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) discovered the existence of two different Gray alleles, one of which is associated with fast graying and increased risk for me...

11/07/2024

11/07/2024

“Riding a horse properly on the bit is physical therapy, and helps pull the vertebrae back apart.”
-Lauren Spreiser

Kissing spine is a condition where one or more of a horse’s vertebrae are close together and touch, or “kiss.” As imaging technology has improved, so have veterinarians’ ability to diagnose things like kissing spine. For some horses, it’s a devastating diagnosis. But for a whole heck of a lot, it is merely a point of interest, based on where it is, how bad it is, and how much it bothers the horse. And the best way to support a horse with it is to make them engage their abdomen and add topline. Riding a horse properly on the bit is physical therapy, and helps pull the vertebrae back apart. After a kissing spine diagnosis, watch your saddle fit, use a good veterinarian, and take a deeeeeeep breath. There’s a whole lot of funky x-rays at the Olympic Games 🩻

11/05/2024

Horse. Definitely horse.