McIntosh Performance Horses

12/24/2024

Congratulations Lynix Doench!!! We’re so happy for you cowgirl!!! 🤠 🎉

12/13/2024

2025, we're coming for you 🎯

𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗤𝗛𝗔 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝟭 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀!
🔴 East: aqha.com/east-level-1-resources
🔴 West: aqha.com/west-level-1-resources

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝟭 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿:
🗓️ January 22, 8 a.m. CST: East Level 1 RVs Open
🗓️ February 1: Entries Open
🗓️ March 17, 5 p.m. CST: East Level 1 Entry Deadline
🗓️ April 1, 5 p.m. CST: West Level 1 Entry Deadline/East Level 1 Late Entry Deadline
🗓️ April 15, 5 p.m. CST: West Level 1 Late Entry Deadline

11/13/2024

🦄🦄🦄

🚨New Team Alert!🚨

It is with bittersweet emotion that we congratulate the new owners of multiple World Champion, Earn An Invitation. He will be greatly missed, but we are excited to watch “Ernie” in the Small Fry events under the guidance of Miranda McIntosh. We are sure he will continue to make more dreams come true!!! 🦄

11/11/2024

10/05/2024

“I was scared today.

I was scared to get on, scared to walk out the yard because I had a bad ride the day before. One bad ride, and it made me scared.

I didn’t know why. I’ve had 1000 bad rides. I’ve had 1000 falls. I’ve broken bones and bruised my pride on countless occasions, but today I was scared.

Why? Because confidence is fragile. It takes months and years to build and seconds to lose and yet we are so careless with it.

When we get on a horse, we wear a hat to protect our head. We wear body protectors, gloves, boots...

We pay so much attention to protecting ourselves physically, we forget that our minds are not invincible, and our confidence certainly is not.

Your bank of confidence needs regular deposits, not just from others... but from you. Self confidence is the most valuable currency in life.

When you go to get on, and you hesitate, you falter and you start to ask yourself “can I do this?”, chances are, your account is almost empty.

Every time you laugh and say “oh no, I’m no good” or “so and so is 10x better than me”, you make a withdrawal from that account, and before you know it, your account is empty and you’re scared to get on.

But every time you say “I’m really pleased with how that went” or “I think I rode that really well”, your balance increases.

We need to learn to give ourselves a break, pat ourselves on the back and allow ourselves to feel proud of where we are - after all, most of the time we’ve worked bloody hard to get there!

Recognising your strengths is just as important as recognising your weaknesses. Never allow yourself or anyone else to empty that account.

Confidence is valuable, don’t bankrupt yourself.”

Author- cromwellandlucy