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03/17/2025

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03/13/2025

Hello. Before posting riding videos with CDE horses, they need to be approved by me first. Thank you! This is for multiple reasons one of which is privacy of other riders 🥰

03/07/2025

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03/04/2025

03/02/2025

Often with horse training we like to say that less is more, slower is better⁠—and I believe it to be true.

As horseman, we have the great responsibility to really think, not just about what we are doing, but also about why we are doing it. The wrong course of action on our part will have serious consequences for the horse.

Understanding the intentions behind the horse’s action is essential in determining whether to support an action or correct it. It also determines to what degree you should support or correct. This will affect the confidence of the horse either positively or negatively.

One of the biggest misconceptions in the equestrian world is the idea that we train horses.
The reality?
We don’t—we prove to them that they can trust us more than their own instincts.

02/21/2025

THIS! I always say to the students.. “Forward is your friend!”

“Going too slow is actually scarier than going forward. Timid or fearful riders want to be cautious – so, naturally, they want to go slower. But if a horse isn’t going forward, they won’t have enough momentum or power to get themselves out of trouble if a mistake were to happen. I try to explain to fearful riders that they can actually get into more trouble by going too slow than by carrying some pace. Pace helps your horse to help you.” Traci from With Purpose: The Balmoral Standard
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02/21/2025

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02/19/2025

If your goal is to become a better competition rider, then you need to compete.

Now, before anyone jumps in saying “I don’t care about competing,” simply realize that this post isn’t for you.

But if it is, here’s one suggestion. Even if your ultimate goal is to get to higher levels in some sport, it matters less than you might think WHERE you practice and get your mileage in an actual competitive arena. It might be “better” to be in some big ring at a place like Wellington or Lexington under lots of pressure, in front of big crowds, but it isn’t all that different to be at some rinky d**k unrecognized show out in East Blufarb,

Either way, you are dressed the same as you would have for a “big” show. Your horse is groomed and shiny. Now you are going to warm up. Then you will have someone tell you that it’s your turn in the ring. You will have memorized the course. You will enter the ring, pick up a canter, make your circle, and jump your round. At the completion of your round, if you have gone clear, you might have a jump-off against time over a shortened course. Or not. But either way you will have stacked up another round at a show, going through the same motions at a back yard schooling jumper show as you would have at some bigger place.

So that when or if you DO get the chance to compete at higher levels, you will have that mileage gained in East Blufarb that you would not have if you had chosen not to bother to go there.

Case in point, this horse York, at a tiny jumper show at the Blue Mountain Riding Club in Windsor, Vermont. The only spectators would have been some mothers and a few bored out of their minds compulsory fathers.

York later won the USA National Advanced Championship 3-day event at Chesterland and was the 1979 USCTA Horse of the Year. This little show was mileage. And mileage counts. And mileage IS obtainable, so go obtain it. Or not, your choice.

02/17/2025

How it should be done

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02/08/2025

Good luck Team CDE Riders!

First draw for the second day of 2025 IEA Regionals