Burk Equestrian

10/02/2024

Hey trainer friends! I’m looking for someone to try an Eq. horse for me at TVN Week 1. Let me know if you can help. Thx 🩵

08/09/2024

The Air Quality Index (AQI) is used to measure the quality of air and is reported on a scale of 0 - 500. The AQI indicates how clean or polluted the air is, and is based on five major air pollutants:

1️⃣ Ground-level ozone
2️⃣ Carbon monoxide
3️⃣ Sulfur dioxide
4️⃣ Nitrogen dioxide
5️⃣ Airborne particles (particulate matter)

The two pollutants posing the greatest risk to respiratory health are ground-level ozone and airborne particles. Ground-level ozone is created when sunlight reacts with certain chemicals, such as those emitted from car exhaust or power plants. Airborne particles are small particles suspended in the air, like those that come from wildfire smoke, dust, and volcanic ash.

The AQI is designed for people; however, the classifications have been extrapolated for use in horses. Learn more in the full article at our FREE Horse Health Library.

03/31/2024

03/20/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/74C6kGt5PshoFxUV/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Great read and Oh so very true!!!

One of my favorite things about horses and our sport is that it is like a mirror of life! It will show us responsibility, love, passion, caring, accountability, honesty, humbleness, discipline and respect!

Enjoy! ❤️💯🙌🏻🦄🔝🔥

From the Plaid Horse....

"If a horse says no, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong.
An average hunter course has 100 strides. Only 8 of them are jumps. Don’t sacrifice the 92 for the 8.
On approaching a fence: good riders wait until it’s time to go. Great riders go until it’s time to wait.
Don’t squat with your spurs on.
It is NEVER the horse’s fault. Yes, sometimes a horse may take advantage of a situation, but there is ALWAYS something the rider could do differently to change the situation.
Pass left hand to left hand.
You can only lie to your horse so many times before they call your bluff.
Horses do no know what they are worth. They do not know, or care, what they are capable of. They only care about the way you treat them.
Injuries and colic happen almost exclusively at 10:00 pm on a Saturday.
Shoes get lost almost exclusively when preparing to leave for a show.
If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, your efforts will not go unnoticed. And you will be rewarded with opportunities when you least expect it.
If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, you will still fail sometimes.
Video doesn’t lie – after being told repeatedly that I was lifting my right hand before every fence, and swearing up and down that I was certainly NOT lifting my right hand before every fence… I was—in fact—lifting my right hand before every fence. Sometimes your brain lies to you. Video does not.
On being nervous going into the show ring: you’re just not that big of a deal. No one at the show is watching you close enough to know every mistake you might make, except for the judge and your trainer, and you are paying them to watch.
Be patient – there are no shortcuts. Any shortcut you may try, will actually be the long way.
Check your personal issues and emotions at the door. Your horse will know. It usually does not go well.
If your horse is in front of your leg, you have options.
We never lose. We either win or we learn.
Ride like a winner. You cannot act like flip flops and expect to be treated like Louboutins.
If you have to pick only two things to think about during a course, pace and track are the two you should choose. The rest cannot happen without pace and track.
Give yourself and your horse brain breaks. Go have fun, go hack out in the woods, go swimming ba****ck, read a book in the paddock, whatever. Just allow yourself time to have fun.
At home there’s no reason to jump as big as you show every time. The basics are the basics regardless of the jump height. Save your horses legs.
The horse world is very small. Remember this and don’t burn your bridges and be mindful of your words.
Clean your tack. Groom your horse. Properly. Every day. If you can control nothing else, you can control your turn out. There is no excuse to not do the minimum effort.
No matter what the problem is, the solution is almost always add more leg.
Ride the horse you have today. Not the one you had yesterday. Not the one you want to have. The horse under you at this moment is the only one that matters.
You go where you look. The human head weighs 10 pounds. Unless you would like to end up on the ground, do not look down.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. " - advice excerpts from the Plaid Horse

03/13/2024

Monday mood...

Just this people.

❤ Charlie Mackesy

03/08/2024

Looking for input from other barns/trainers in Ada County. Where do you get your bulk shavings from? We are looking for delivery of pine only. Thank you!

02/12/2024

Hoping some of my students apply for this program when they are prepared and ready. Great opportunity from USHJA.

The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association is pleased to announce dates, locations, and clinicians for the 2024 MZ Farms/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program Regional Training Sessions. This year's 10 clinics will feature mounted sessions led by Carly Anthony, Jeff Cook, Cynthia Hankins, Karen Healey, and Julie....

02/12/2024

Learn to apply this most basic bandage that offers support and promotes circulation in your horse’s leg.

01/30/2024

Still one of my favourite illustration. I will often use a plastic banana to demonstrate those movements and talk about the "banana bend" 🍌 😄

Do you find them helpful...?!