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11/28/2024

08/18/2024

05/27/2024

Happy Memorial Day. We got a special gift at midnight. A roan filly❤️ Smart SweetNLow x Kick The Dust Up. So much thanks to Denise Mengon for being amazing with her mare care and foaling her out 💕

03/27/2024

01/12/2024

Ride like you have nothing to lose.

When we’ve been doing this for a long time; when we have a lot of experience and knowledge of the sport; when we’ve built a reputation and acquired some personal belongings; when we’ve made millions of mistakes… we tend to back off.

We start thinking about all the negative consequences of the horse becoming a run-off, a barrel crasher, refusing the gate, loosing weight, etc.—What will people think? Will the owner take the horse home? Will I ever be able to sell this horse? We remember every time we made an error in training and we try to avoid that situation by backing off and training more slowly and correctly.

The result—a slower, more correct horse......that doesn’t win a damn thing.

You MUST ride like you have nothing to lose!

Why?

Because there is a younger, less experienced trainer/ rider out there who has nothing to lose, everything to prove and WILL ride accordingly! This takes true courage.

The courage to accept that failure is a possibility. That you may lose much of what you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

But the consequences of NOT laying it all on the line are dire.

If you don’t push the envelope, your soul will suffer a slow, agonizing defeat and those past accolades will no longer matter.

So muster up all the courage you have and ride like you have nothing to lose.

www.betweenthereins.us

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01/04/2024

Smart SweetNLow

South Point MHWinter Championship 2007

01/04/2024

Excited for this cross coming in 2024

01/04/2024

Exciting things in 2024. Futurity prospect for 2025. Chick Fabulous

06/01/2023

03/03/2023

This pile of beet pulp came out of a horses esophagus.

Dr. Paton, after having seen several beet pulp chokes in the last two days, felt a reminder is in order.

Beet pulp can be an excellent feed for horses. It is an energy-rich source of digestible fiber. However, it MUST be thoroughly soaked and wet when fed.

Dry beet pulp pellets can easily lodge in the esophagus , quickly swelling and causing choke. This is not like human choke , the airway is not blocked , the horse is able to breathe. Almost every case of choke that we see was caused by the pellets not being adequately soaked or horses breaking into the feed room and gaining access to the dry pellets.

Anatomical problems, such as poor dentition and abnormal esophagus anatomy, can also predispose a horse to choking.

Chokes can predispose horses to aspiration pneumonia, which is caused by feed material going down the trachea and into the lungs. This foreign material in the lungs can cause the horse to develop a secondary bacterial infection.

Finally, a common cause of choke is poor dentition leading to inadequate chewing; be sure to schedule a thorough dental exam following a choking episode.

Chokes are common equine emergencies with potentially serious consequences. Call your veterinarian as soon as you notice signs of choke.

03/02/2023

With proper nutrition and a conditioning program, barrel horses can bounce back from a winter layoff better than ever and ready to run.

02/26/2023

What are the implications of mismatched front feet?

Many horses have high/low front feet, where one foot has a steeper angle then it’s opposite.
But do we realise how much effect this can have on the entire musculoskeletal system!?

We can have different types of high/low.
A boxy foot and an ideal foot.
An ideal foot and a flat foot.
A flat foot and a boxy foot.
Studies have shown that that amount of difference in angle between the two is proportional to the effects on the horses biomechanics.

These horses may require much more regular physiotherapy or chiropractic due to the profound compensations which are akin to sub clinical unilateral lameness. Especially in the back as Gomez Alvarez et al. (2007) measured the majority of compensations for lameness are seen in the spine.

This is a great example of how the hoof and the horse are inextricably linked as the hoof conformation is created by physiological influences. Below is a comprehensive graphic of the effects of high/low.

Read more…

https://www.theequinedocumentalist.com/post/high-low-hoof-conformation-farriery-and-whole-horse-relevance

More information and discussion in our webinars with Dr Kilmartin and Dr Clifford where we delve into the two way relationship of the hoof/horse connection at this link..

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/Conformation

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/Hoofhorse