Transitions Training Center, Inc

03/11/2025

The Parthenon frieze, sculpted between 443 and 438 BC.

Currently exhibited in the New Acropolis Museum, Athens.

03/11/2025

Bob Alexander driving a pair of his Gelderlanders, not a foot on the ground 💖💖💖
Bob Alexander The Coachman, His Carriages and his horses
♡ ♥💕❤😘♡ ♥💕❤

03/11/2025

03/10/2025

03/10/2025

03/10/2025

Ever wondered why Americans drive on the right while our British counterparts stay to the left? The answer isn’t Henry Ford—it goes back much further, and it all starts in Lancaster County with the Conestoga wagon!

CNN interviewed John Stehman, president of the Conestoga Area Historical Society, to uncover the surprising role these iconic wagons played. In the 1700s, drivers walked alongside their teams, holding the reins in their right hand, keeping the wagons to the right of the road. This practice became so widespread that when America’s first major highway—the Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike—opened in 1795, it mandated right-side travel! New York later made it law in 1804, long before Ford ever built a Model T.

Meanwhile, Britain stuck with medieval horseback traditions, keeping left so riders could defend themselves with their sword hand.

So, next time you’re driving remember—you’re following in the wheel tracks of history! Read more at https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/02/business/why-americans-drive-on-the-right-and-the-british-on-the-left/index.html

03/07/2025

You may have noticed our clinical teams wearing hard hats when treating your horses. This is a move being implemented by equine vets globally to help mitigate the risk of serious head injury.

Statistics show that out of the serious injuries sustained by vets and support staff, most injuries are not caused by the patient itself, but by environmental factors. Examples would be a sudden movement or a kick, either of which result in a loss of balance and then a fall. This can cause injury by colliding with a fence, stable wall, hard surface or equipment, which has the potential to result in a serious head injury.

We fully respect most of our patients are amenable and well-behaved. Yet as prey animals, horses are often at their most vulnerable when sick or injured. So, it is unsurprising that they may react out of character and then purely by accident create a scenario which could lead to a life changing injury.

When our teams wear helmets, it is by no means a reflection on the behaviour of your individual horse or pony, instead our aim is to make the working environment safer for all concerned.

03/04/2025

Back when a “Concours d’elegance” class meant something ,and they were competed in more eargly than their Private Driving equivalent … when posh equaled places and movement and presence were rewarded!

03/04/2025

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR
AUCTION FRIDAY, MARCH 21 & 22, 2025

EARLY PREVIEW WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 2025
DURING THE CARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA WINTER MEETING AT THE GRAND OAKS RESORT, WEIRSDALE, FLORIDA

03/04/2025