Moorland Show Stables

09/03/2023

❤️🐴❤️

08/17/2022

06/22/2022

We believe all riders should have access to the best education, training, and mentorship. Learning and growing shouldn’t be reserved for a select few – with so many talented, hard working, passionate riders out there, we want to bring top-level training to all.

05/22/2022

03/13/2022

Still another reason for a slow, calm walking warm up,

Klaus Balkenol said a MINIMUM of ten minutes of walking, and to use a watch if you are the impatient type, as ten will feel like 20-----

15 minutes is better still.

Don't have time for this PLUS work? Do this instead of work---

Hard to accept? Top trainers are not top trainers because they fail to understand how horses operate----

02/27/2022

Spurs are an effective riding aid in the right, educated hands. But like anything else, they can be harmful.

04/21/2021

An open letter to my mistake horse

Sometimes I regret the day I met you. You took my life and turned it on its head, pushed me to every imaginable limit and then a little bit further. You gave me sleepless nights and more stress and worry than I ever thought I could handle. You were the horse I never meant to fall in love with, you were my mistake horse.

You tried my patience daily. The way you’d always push the stable door to see if I’d left it open so you could take yourself to the field, or the way you used to wait until I was just inches from catching you before spinning around and galloping off squealing and bucking...if horses could laugh, you’d have been howling.

You pushed me to breaking point as a rider. One day you’d sail round a course of fences and give me a glimpse of just how talented you were and the next you’d regress to your unbacked three year old mode and be unable to walk in a straight line without spooking/bucking/spinning/generally losing your mind.

You forced me to become a better person. I wasn’t a bad person to start with, but you made me take a long, hard look at myself. You made me learn to leave my emotions at the gate, to be patient, to persevere and to know when to walk away. It hurt like hell, but every ride was an invaluable lesson.

You taught me control, in more ways than one. Riding you was like looking into a mirror, whatever I bought to the table in the arena, you’d serve straight back to me. If I was frustrated, you’d be ready for a fight. If I wasn’t focussed, you’d be distracted by the smallest thing. Even when everything was just right, you didn’t magically become perfect, but you’d try your best to be.

Above all, you taught me that you cannot chose your race, but you can chose how you run it. There were so many days I wanted to throw the reins and give up, so many days I sat in tears wondering why our paths had to cross, but then you’d give me a glimpse of something so special and make me want to try again, you made me want to be the best rider I could be.

So I call you my mistake horse. The horse I never meant to fall in love with, but did. The horse that taught me the hardest lessons, that pushed me, that tested me. The horse that made me better in so many ways.

Here’s to you, the best mistake I ever made.

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www.cromwellandlucy.com

03/12/2021

"Right now, our plans are all systems go, but we recognize that anything could still change," said Marty Bauman, the show's communications director.