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08/08/2024

Wally said “I heard you and Kathleen talking about neck extension, watch this” 😜👏🏽
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I’ve struggled to introduce neck extension to Wally for a LONG time, but changing my idea of contact to a more cohesive approach offered up a conversation through contact rather than demands. Within five minutes Wally was offering things he hadn’t offered over two years. Changing the way you think can do wonders!

08/03/2024

It’s been such a privilege seeing this horse change, slowly over the years, both mentally and physically. Wally was kind of a late bloomer, the first photo being from 2021, at his first little arena eventing experience when he was 5 years old. The second photo was this past Monday and now, as an 8 year old, nearly a hand taller, several girth sizes bigger, it seems he’s finally grown into himself and it was certainly worth the wait 🩵A lot of Purina feed, some great supplements, thinking outside of the shoeing box with EasyCare Inc. Protective Hoofwear, plenty of good horsemanship, and miles of terrain covered, go in to getting where we’re going 🤩

07/29/2024

Wally and I went out for our first cross country school some November today. He felt like he hadn’t missed a day other than a peak at the water, it felt so great to be back at it with my main man💪🏽 he felt excellent in his Speed Metal Trac composite shoes, great traction with just small grass points, even after all the rain we’ve had!
First jump in our new Boekelo, loving it more every ride!

07/23/2024

A fabulous early morning trot/canter was made even better by making it the first ride in our new Boekelo jump saddle 🤩 huge thanks to for helping Wally and I find the perfect fit for us!

07/15/2024

Wally is feeling great and getting fit for some big outings in the next month! He’s been in our first set of Speed Metal Trac composite shoes for about 3 weeks now and we are LOVING them. He’s hard at work growing some way healthier new hoof wall now that he has the support he needs from EasyCare!
We’ve been doing a lot of flat work out in the fields and they offer such great traction that I haven’t even used the stud holes yet. We’re waiting on one more very exciting delivery and then we’ll be out on cross country again, studded up and putting these shoes through their paces, so I’ll be reporting back!
Also peep one of the OG bonnet making an appearance for this morning’s ride 😝 I’ve had this one for years and it still washes up great even on this sweaty monster!

07/11/2024

We’ll make a ranch hand out of you yet, Ricky Bobby 🥰

06/30/2024

It’s so cool to have a c**t come in for starting and have them around long enough to become your go to when there’s a job to be done! And better yet to have them enjoy the job!
Baldr has been a fun experience and turned into quite the little hand around here, I’ll be bummed to see him go home soon, but glad to know he’s got the skills to be a solid citizen for his person.
**tstarting

06/27/2024

We’re headed down that road to better, little further everyday 🤙🏽 a big step for us is creating a better relationship to “contact”. A learning curve for us both. Softness in the bridle rather than an avoidance of bar pressure, that’s what we’re striving for these days… BETTER

06/16/2024

Iris is getting out and seeing the sights! She ventured out into the cows today with the help of Kristi Heredia’s, Baldr, and they both handled their jobs like pros🤙🏽

06/11/2024

Welcome to the barn, little miss Iris!
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Hard to resist a pint sized package like this one 🥰 be sure to keep an eye out for this adorable 5 year old owned by Molena Horse & Cattle Co. and myself, she’s gonna be a good one 🤩

06/04/2024

It’s like Christmas in June!
Huge thank you to for today’s package, I’m super excited about their newest line of shoes, the Easy Shoe Speed Metal Trac.
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These shoes, with the metal insert, offer the ability to not only shape the shoe to my horse’s foot, but also to use our studs just like we would with a steel shoe, all while still keeping some of that important flexibility of the composite. They are the ultimate composite shoe geared towards the 3 day event horse and I can’t wait to get them on Wally to take them for a test run!

06/04/2024

Selling a couple of my saddles, they’re posted on several pages but figured I’d post on my own page too, maybe one of my horsey friends needs a decent saddle🤷🏽‍♀️

CWD monoflap - 2018 17” 2A M - unfortunately has cosmetic imperfections but I had it checked by multiple saddle fitters before I bought it and they labeled it as aesthetic only that could be fixed, and structurally in like new condition. Ridden in for two seasons, well taken care of, kept in climate controlled tack room. Leathers and irons not included. $2000

County Competitor - 98 17” M - older saddle but still in great condition, taken care of just as well as my newer tack, kept in climate controlled tack room. $1000

They’re here in Georgia with me but I’m willing to ship at buyers expense

06/03/2024

Tell me again how all horses get worked up at feeding time, it’s just what they do 🤔
Six geldings of different ages, breeds, and backgrounds, who live out 24/7 and get fed at about the same two times everyday, took about 3 minutes for them to eventually make their way down to their buckets after they watched me park the gator and unload the grain. Three of these horses had anxiety surrounding feeding time when they arrived, all three have changed.
FEEDING TIME DOES NOT HAVE TO BE CHAOTIC
*steps off soap box*

06/02/2024

Feyre hard at work learning the intricacies of tying 😋 a skill of any good saddle horse and one of the first boxes we tick with the youngins around here ✅
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05/31/2024

What is this madness!? Pushing cows… on a fjord… in a jump saddle…😳 we’re breaking all sorts of societal norms around here 😂

05/27/2024

Yep!

05/26/2024

Ranch Fjord, anyone?
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Kristi Heredia’s Baldr really impressed this weekend! We needed a third horse to doctor calves yesterday so I pulled this little guy out for what would be his first job. He started out a little unsure of all the extra energy but he never said no and only got better as the day went on!
Crossing draws, pushing bulls, running down wayward cows, we gave him a job to do and he was all for it, really proud of this c**t🤙🏽
**tstarting

05/16/2024

My plan was to give Wally the day off today but he pulled a shoe, so I brought him in. That used to involve carefully bubble wrapping his foot while waiting for the farrier to come fix it, but NOT ANYMORE. With Versa Grip glue ons, I can reset any lost shoes myself in minutes! Since he was already in the barn, I decided to put a quick ride on him. A FEW THINGS I NOTICED:

I decided to ride him in my jump saddle which I haven’t done in months due to him having some significant anxiety that went with tacking up in our jump OR dressage tack (stemming from the same place as many of our other issues). The anxiety tacking up in jump tack? Gone.

Wally has struggled for a long time with maintaining his balance at the canter and would cross fire FREQUENTLY right up until I stopped riding him at the beginning of the year. He has not cross fired at the canter since I started riding him again despite not being super fit and my having asked him for things that most certainly would’ve brought it up prior to fixing our foundation.

So all in all, I am very happy with the trajectory Wally and I are on these days🥰

05/09/2024

Storm coming ⛈️ everybody to the barn! All breeds and colors welcome 🤪

05/07/2024

I’ve had a few people asking for a Wally update and thanks to my here it is!
It’s been about two weeks since he got his Versa Grip glue ons and as of last Friday I started riding him again, our first rides since January, give or take. After his shoes were on, we started to see some really nice changes in his body as he was obviously more comfortable.
Under saddle he feels excellent; relaxed, forward, soft, and none of the widely complained about yet entirely accepted antics that are so common bringing a sport horse back into work.
In fact, he’s so present in his body and work these days, that after Sunday’s storm, I hopped on him ba****ck in his halter to take him back to his field at the bottom of the driveway, ponying his field mate, Edward. It’s pretty fascinating how much more pleasant a horse finds his life to be when he’s PHYSICALLY & MENTALLY comfortable.

05/05/2024

Even the general public c**ts get put to work around here 😜
JB, Michelle Combs’s 4 year old gelding, here for starting, being flagged off of Baldr, Kristi Heredia’s 5 year old gelding, also here for starting but just about ready to go home! We had a beautiful morning to work horses today before the storms rolled in this afternoon☀️⛈️
**tstarting

05/02/2024

Do you notice every step you and he take? Cause he does. You owe it to him to take note.
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04/24/2024

First pair of Versa Grip Glue done and dusted (or rather buffied) ✅ it was a little messy and a couple mistakes were made but lots of lessons learned for next time and my horse is vastly more comfortable which is what’s most important!
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Now, to put these bad boys to the test and progress Wally back into work so we can take our time getting mentally and physically fit for the fall season!
Huge, huge thank you to my parents for their knowledge, support, and mostly their patience with the stress case that was me trying to get shoes back on Wally 😅🫶🏽

04/21/2024

The boys are enjoying spring at Molena Horse & Cattle Co. in their new sheets, perfect for those cool, sunny mornings 😎 and rainy days like today 🌧️

04/08/2024

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need” -unknown
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This one resonated. Someone once told me I’d never make it in this industry because I couldn’t work 7 days a week. I almost believed them until it occurred to me I couldn’t work 7 days a week for THEM because what I was doing for them was so toxic, so against how I viewed working with horses, so mentally as well as physically draining. Then I found my path. It wasn’t far away, same general industry, just with vastly different scenery. No more settling for the path that was “close enough”.

04/06/2024

First ride out of the arena for this c**t and he did great! Started out a little wondering what we were up to and finished trotting out nice and relaxed🤙🏽
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Really diggin this sunshine and one of my favorite pairs of jeans from ❤️☀️ if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and they sure made a nice pair of jeans to work c**ts in back in the day!
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03/21/2024

I sure missed looking through these ears!
First ride since deciding to go back to the round pen and fix our foundation in January and I’m pretty confident in saying it was our quietest ride in over a year 🤙🏽

03/16/2024

I was incredibly lucky to find something I truly enjoy when I was pretty young. I was even luckier to find opportunities with mentors who can teach me about the thing I enjoy in a way that makes me love to do it.
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I gave a few different ways a try and I think it’s safe to say, if those ways had come first, I’d have been easily convinced that starting c**ts was not for me by a long shot. If I thought there was no other way for me to feel, and make a horse feel, sitting on him for the first time, I would be just another bitter horse trainer in a barn full of bitter horses working in learned helplessness.
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In short, I’m thankful for the mentors who take their time to teach ways that allow us and our horses, both, to love what we do. More than that I’m thankful that there’s more than one way of doing things, so if you enjoy something, I implore you to find a way to love it, it’s incredibly worth it.
**tstarting

02/29/2024

Just another day at the office 😎 at it again keeping me comfortable on all terrain
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This little Floridian fjord had never seen a hill before coming to Georgia let alone a muddy draw surrounded by curious baby cows😅 he used to get pretty troubled when it came to uneven ground and getting his feet wet but he sure seems to be getting the hang of it now! Just needed a little time and persistence to get to those feet🤙🏽
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Wally

Baldr

It’s so cool to have a colt come in for starting and have them around long enough to become your go to when there’s a job to be done! And better yet to have them enjoy the job! Baldr has been a fun experience and turned into quite the little hand around here, I’ll be bummed to see him go home soon, but glad to know he’s got the skills to be a solid citizen for his person. #baldr #fjordhorse #coltstarting #ranchhorse #cowhorse #handy #lovemyjob #nicehorse #horsemanship

Iris

Iris is getting out and seeing the sights! She ventured out into the cows today with the help of Kristi Heredia’s, Baldr, and they both handled their jobs like pros🤙🏽 #googoodoll #ponymare #projectpony #ranchpony #baldr #fjordhorse #ranchhorse #horsemanship #sightseeing #bigwideworld

Feeding time

Tell me again how all horses get worked up at feeding time, it’s just what they do 🤔 Six geldings of different ages, breeds, and backgrounds, who live out 24/7 and get fed at about the same two times everyday, took about 3 minutes for them to eventually make their way down to their buckets after they watched me park the gator and unload the grain. Three of these horses had anxiety surrounding feeding time when they arrived, all three have changed. FEEDING TIME DOES NOT HAVE TO BE CHAOTIC *steps off soap box* #horsemanship #ranchhorses #3dayeventing #showhorses #fortheloveofthehorse #normaldoesntmeanright

Baldr

What is this madness!? Pushing cows… on a fjord… in a jump saddle…😳 we’re breaking all sorts of societal norms around here 😂 #baldr #fjordhorse #ranchhorse #cowwork #jumpsaddle #weird #chaoticgood #normalisboring

Baldr

Ranch Fjord, anyone? - Kristi Heredia’s Baldr really impressed this weekend! We needed a third horse to doctor calves yesterday so I pulled this little guy out for what would be his first job. He started out a little unsure of all the extra energy but he never said no and only got better as the day went on! Crossing draws, pushing bulls, running down wayward cows, we gave him a job to do and he was all for it, really proud of this colt🤙🏽 #baldr #fjordhorse #coltstarting #ranchhorse #horsemanship #cowwork #doctoringcalves

Storm coming ⛈️ everybody to the barn! All breeds and colors welcome 🤪 #ottb #fjordhorse #froelichquarterhorses #ranchhorse #trailhorse #3dayeventing

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Storm coming ⛈️ everybody to the barn! All breeds and colors welcome 🤪 #ottb #fjordhorse #froelichquarterhorses #ranchhorse #trailhorse #3dayeventing

Even the general public colts get out to work around here 😜 #ethosequine JB, Michelle Combs’s 4 year old #froelichquarterhorses gelding, here for starting, being flagged off of Baldr, Kristi Heredia’s 5 year old #fjordhorse gelding, also here for starting but just about ready to go home! We had a beautiful morning to work horses today before the storms rolled in this afternoon☀️⛈️ #ranchhorse #coltstarting #horsemanship #horsewoman

Colts

Even the general public colts get put to work around here 😜 #ethosequine JB, Michelle Combs’s 4 year old #froelichquarterhorses gelding, here for starting, being flagged off of Baldr, Kristi Heredia’s 5 year old #fjordhorse gelding, also here for starting but just about ready to go home! We had a beautiful morning to work horses today before the storms rolled in this afternoon☀️⛈️ #ranchhorse #coltstarting #horsemanship #horsewoman

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“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need” -unknown - This one resonated. Someone once told me I’d never make it in this industry because I couldn’t work 7 days a week. I almost believed them until it occurred to me I couldn’t work 7 days a week for THEM because what I was doing for them was so toxic, so against how I viewed working with horses, so mentally as well as physically draining. Then I found my path. It wasn’t far away, same general industry, just with vastly different scenery. No more settling for the path that was “close enough”. #nomore #chasinghappiness #ifoundit #mypath #provethemwrong #dontsettle #ranching #3dayeventing #bestofbothworlds #itcanbedone #gogetit #froelichquarterhorses

Baldr

Just another day at the office 😎 @muckbootco at it again keeping me comfortable on all terrain - This little Floridian fjord had never seen a hill before coming to Georgia let alone a muddy draw surrounded by curious baby cows😅 he used to get pretty troubled when it came to uneven ground and getting his feet wet but he sure seems to be getting the hang of it now! Just needed a little time and persistence to get to those feet🤙🏽 #fjordhorse #floridian #outdoors #horsemanship #coltstarting #gettingourfeetwet #mud #calvingseason #waterhorse #babycows

We’re not done 💪🏽 - Looking back on what we’re working for! Everything going on behind the scenes right now is setting us up to come back better than ever when it’s time to head out on that XC course again (and more importantly in the sandbox) #tappinthekeg #ottb #3dayeventing #ottbsofinstagram #horsemanship #crosscountry #backtobasics #biggoals #fixingthefoundation

Only top tier copilots here at Molena Horse & Cattle 😎 it’s natural to be jealous #slimjim #ranchdog rockin his favorite WeatherBeeta North America coat 🤙🏽

Anything can be made better by a XC school, especially on this guy 🤩 - We had a great school at Barnstaple South to prep for Majestic Oaks next weekend. Feeling very ready and excited to get out competing! Thank you for great coaching @brookebayleyequestrian #tappinthekeg #ottb #ottbsofinstagram #3dayeventing #xc #horsemanship #barnstaple

We popped over to Fredericks Equestrian for a nice, low key, couple of practice rounds today. Wally was a good boy, and I felt we had a successful outing. - We’re working a lot on us both staying focused in show environments, getting better about riding between the fences, and holding each other to a bit higher standard now that we’re getting to be big kids 😜 #tappinthekeg #ottb #ottbsofinstagram #eventing #3dayeventing #jumpers #showjump #showingup #competition #beingbetter #horsemanship #chasinghappiness #kūpono #ku

Wally just keeps impressing! He was stellar for day two of the William Fox-Pitt clinic. He really brought his A game out cross country and showed he’s feeling ready to do more as soon as his pilot can get her job figured out 😜 - So proud to report he got high praise from William and several auditors, I guess we’ll keep him around a bit longer🥰 Again, big thank you to William Fox-Pitt and everyone else who went into putting on such a great clinic! And thank you @brookebayleyequestrian for videoing🎥

So pleased with Wally after day of the William Fox-Pitt clinic today 🤩 - His pilot has some things to work on to help us both be better but he jumped great, we learned a lot, and we got some great encouragement for the future as a pair. On to cross country tomorrow🥳 - Big thank yous to Brooke Bayley for having us feeling ready for this as well as being our videographer, Mr Fox-Pitt for great teaching, Rhonda for organizing a great clinic, and Sara Kozumplik for the use of her beautiful facility! #tappinthekeg #ottb #ottbsofinstagram #3dayeventing #clinic #williamfoxpitt #chasinghappiness #horsemanship #togetherness #showjumping #excitingfuture #stoked

I normally make a whole “end of year recap montage” but ya know, I think I’m just gonna give 2022 a big thanks for the memories, it’s been real, I had fun, and I bid you adieu. And with that, I’ll be launching myself into 2023 with no remorse and the same fire I find leaving the start box 🔥 #itsbeengreat #thankyou2022 #2023 #chasingikaika #keepitku #makemeproud #gettingitdone💪 #blessedandallthatjazz