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10/14/2025

Mark your calendars for these special events during the 2025 Appaloosa World Show!

🌵Ride the Pattern- stop by to listen to World Show Judges explain the pattern maneuvers and answer any questions you may have.

🌵Exhibitor Social, Pillars of the Breed & Year End Awards- Join us for celebrating the greats of our breed!

🌵 Pink Day- right in the middle of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we will show our support for those near and far affected by cancer

🌵Veterans Parade & Social- don’t miss one of our best events! Join us as we give thanks to Veterans and kick off the EWD classes!

🇺🇸 We can’t wait for you to join us in Ft Worth!

09/24/2025

Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard; every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.
2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to...
3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then you're not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to...
4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs. and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in a while; they improve because they make riding a priority and give themselves opportunity to practice.
5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what you AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...
6. Riding should be fun. It is work; and work isn't always fun, but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.
7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.
8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.
9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.
10. Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others, but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one 🩵

09/10/2025

Lesson spots open ✅ Can provide after school transportation 🚗 Availability on weeknights and weekends! 🐴 Learn to ride on SAFE & SOLID horses with impeccable resumes 🦄

09/09/2025

Horses are heartbreak.

I don’t wish to minimize anyone’s personal stories but when we love horses, we knowingly sign up for the possibility of tragedy. A veterinarian friend of mine once quipped, “Horses are born. Then, they spend the rest of their lives trying to kill themselves.” He was being funny but not really. He’d literally seen it all.

We can insure them for loss but while we can safeguard a financial investment, we can do nothing to buffer our hearts. Every seasoned horse(wo)man I know has a story that begins, “If only I’d been there, or, if only I’d known…”

If only, if only, if only.

Horses have always been our teachers. They may teach us to win graciously and to accept defeat with nobility. They may teach us to be brave… to go to that place where we cannot imagine going… to eventually forgive ourselves… and to dare to love and lose, again. They teach us to fly and inevitably, they will teach us how to fall.

If your heart has been so scarred, I want you to know that I am very sorry. You now belong to a band of brothers, or a sisterhood, one who has been through fire. You’ve been made witness to something that has made you wonder if you will ever make it out the other side. We, who so love to watch our horses, to hear and smell them, to read about horses, to dream about horses, to think about them with nothing but joy in our hearts. We feel our bond with horses so fully, we can only pray that we will be strengthened through the inevitable goodbyes.

In the end, our horses—our joy, our wings, our better selves—are also our heartbreak. There is no other way.

09/05/2025

The Animal Science Graduate Students have put together a collection of NDSU Animal Science apparel! If you’d like to show your support for the program or if you’re just looking for some fun new NDSU swag 😎. You’ll find a variety of options in our online store. Items include hats, sweatshirts, coats, professional wear, and more.

Orders can be delivered directly to you or picked up on campus. Don’t wait too long, the store closes on October 1st! Check out the store here: https://ndsuansc25.itemorder.com/shop/home/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

09/04/2025

Word spreads quickly in our industry, and there have been rumblings that over 30x Congress and 23x AQHA World Champion trainer Charlie Cole is planning to retire. After Cole’s Highpoint Performance Horses partner Jason Martin’s retirement in 2022, there were questions of how long Cole would cont...

08/22/2025

"Quit over feeding your performance horses, and start riding them."

There. I said it.

And for heaven's sake, quit turning to the vet for every misstep and bobble.

Instead of looking for a quick fix that doesn't involve effort, try saddling up and long trotting a few miles...daily. You probably got into this sport because you love to ride...so ride! Five days a week, rain or shine. I guarantee your horse won't be as 'ulcer-y', he won't freshen up and act up, he won't fall apart under pressure...you two will partner up the way a horse and rider were intended to.

You might even win more.

The last thing your underworked equine partner needs is grass 24-7, every supplement known to man kind, soaked (or unsoaked) alfalfa cubes on a daily basis, gastro medication, Lasix, and injections in every joint. What he does need is miles in the saddle.

And so do you.

Start there, at least.

Good old fashioned riding time.

K.I.S.S.

Keep it simple, stupid.

It's a good habit to develop anyway. All manner of equine problems can be fixed with consistent riding and some daily sweat...on the part of both parties.

Have a good day folks. 😊

Pictured below; the big engine LJ...a perfect example of what riding a horse everyday can build out of them. I didn't think I'd ever see the day this gelding would stand still. 🤷

08/20/2025

Trail week (there are more logs 😂)

08/18/2025

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