Deer Creek Stables

12/18/2025

12/10/2025

🎄🐴 LAST CALL FOR CHRISTMAS BARN MAGIC! 🐴🎄

Today only: 25% OFF all horse lover tees, hoodies & sweatshirts with code XMAS25 at checkout. 🎁

👉 Today is the LAST day to order for guaranteed delivery before Christmas – snag gifts for your favorite horsegirl, barn bestie, or, ya know… yourself. 😉

Shop here: redmaremercantile.shop
Use code: XMAS25 (expires tonight!)

✨ Once it’s gone, it’s gone – don’t miss it!

11/21/2025

Please consider helping our friend Lora Bannon. She is a cancer survivor and has… Naomi Preston needs your support for Help Lora Bannon Overcome Medical Bills

11/14/2025

Sold

2003 Charmac 3-horse with 9’ shortwall. This trailer has 8’wide with mangers and storage under the mangers. I’m cleaning it out this weekend and will get interior pictures added then. Trailer is being sold as is and needs a new water heater and the thermostat controller replaced. Tires, brakes, and axels were done last year. $15000 OBO

10/20/2025

🎀 15 Years Strong 💪 — Ride for Hope Sale! 🐎
Today marks my 15-year cancerversary — on October 20, 2010, I was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer. 💗 Fifteen years later, I’m still riding strong — and giving back to help others find their strength too.
In honor of this milestone, I’m offering 20% off the entire Ride for Hope collection through midnight tonight!
✨ Use code HOPE20 at checkout.
Every shirt in this collection supports Gallop for Life, an amazing nonprofit that helps those navigating cancer — and as always, $5 from every shirt sold goes directly to them. 🐴
Let’s ride for hope, for strength, and for every warrior still fighting. 💗
👉 Shop the collection here:

https://redmaremercantile.shop/collections/ride-for-hope

10/16/2025

YES!!!

🐴 Touch as Many Horses as You Can

This is solid advice...

If you want to get good with horses, work with as many as you can.
Different sizes, shapes, temperaments - the whole lot. Every horse you handle adds to your internal database of feel, understanding, and the ability to make good decisions fast.

When I’d only ridden a handful of horses, every new one felt alien. Their movement threw me off; their energy unsettled me. I’d climb on and think, gosh this feels awkward!
Nothing was wrong - I just didn’t have enough data.

Now, when I handle a new horse, it takes about two seconds to read the room. Because experience builds calibration. You stop reacting to every emotional flicker as danger and start recognising it as information.
You can feel the horse telling you what’s easy, what’s hard, or what’s concerning through how fluent your touch moves through them. I hear the horse respond physically, mentally and emotionally just as clearly as they learn to read my touch.

That’s why I tell people to do my backward-forward-yield groundwork exercise with as many horses as possible. If you don’t know what that is, then do something you do know - something simple you can teach a horse. It’s not about fixing them; it’s about refining you. Every repetition tunes your database of awareness, your ability to feel them, read them, and ultimately your ability to influence them.

Because confidence isn’t built by one example; it’s built by learning to manage it, navigate it, and witness the results of your actions many times over.

So go out there, work with different horses, and stack experiences.

The more horses you understand, the less any one horse can shake you - and the more predictable they all become.

This is Collectable Advice 52/365 of my notebook challenge, please SAVE it, SHARE it but it is not cool to copy and paste it ❤

10/08/2025

Let’s help a fellow Mustang trainer! Click the original post, like, and share!

Molly's Saddle Giveaway 🤠
I won my first ever (Molly’s) buckle with my BLM mustang mare Samba. She was my 2019 MYWY Challege horse. This is the first of several mustangs I have started from the wild. Samba could t really use a saddle that fits her better. She is WIDE and very short back. I’ve been looking for a round skirt with no luck.

10/06/2025

What do you do on a pretty sunny day after the first freeze? Power washing blankets, of course!

08/21/2025

One of my shirt designs is going viral! You can find it on my shop in several different colors!

Warning: Wearing one of these may cause spontaneous hair flips, increased sarcasm, and an uncontrollable need to boss your pasture.

08/19/2025

Red Mare Mercantile

08/18/2025

He’s rusty, but he does have some buttons in there.