R&B Quarter Horses

11/07/2025

How to Tie a Bridle Knot (aka Bug Knot)

A "bridle knot" is neat, flat, and easy to tie — perfect for bridles, reins, and more.

Steps:
(Think: Top down, then round and round.)

1️⃣ Thread your tie leather through the holes. Leave the bottom strand slightly longer.

2️⃣ Fold the top strand down.

3️⃣ Wrap the bottom strand under the top strand.

4️⃣ Repeat step #3 until you're out of room.

That’s it! Simple, secure, and you're ready to ride. 🐎

11/07/2025

Kalley Krickeberg's Training Barn, Balanced Horse Training, is returning August 8-10. Advancing Body Control for Maneuvers and Skill Drills. No matter what discipline you and your horse participate in, don't miss this opportunity to learn from another world renowned rider and trainer, coming all the way from California. There is one Participant spot left & plenty of room for auditors! You can find her registration form at: https://www.kalleykrickeberg.com/events/new-boston-mi-2-1-clinic/form

11/07/2025

So, you're immediately exasperated and frustrated with others?

Didn't you know, that when you make contact with others, those others are having their own experience? Their life? In their life, there will be things you are not privy to. You won't understand it. If you frame relationships based around what they can do for you, when others fall short, even one tiny detail short... do you write them off as insufficient, incapable, untrustworthy, not good enough?

Or do you lean in closer to wonder; hmm I wonder what is going on for them that they are like this right now?

One is entitlement, the other is empathy.

When you ask a horse to leave their paddock, their stable and they offer a modicum of resistance, are you immediately annoyed at that? Like a child? No wait. I have only ever known young children to be infinitely curious and patient about others, until they are sullied with things like... getting everything they want always.

Not to put too finer point on it, but one of the biggest issues I see with horse people, is entitlement. The belief that the horse is put there to serve us.

Where did it come from?

Horses always did a lot for horse people, but if you speak to the lifers, the old timers, they were endlessly understanding of their horses. And allowed their horses to have off days, and imperfections.

I think it arose when we had enough horse in our lives to see them part of the day, but not enough horse in our lives to observe them all day, or live with them. They became something we picked up and used, and put back again. What they did at 2am at the stable when you were in your warm bed, is out of sight and out of mind.

To ensure this post doesn't become a heavy handed slam piece, I would like to gently offer a simple solution.

Relax.

Like... really. Relax? What about letting your horse be imperfect? To have an off day. To not be ready, to not be willing, to not be up for it... always. They do not have to.

Taking that a step further.

If you do that to a horse, you will do it to your horses team. Your vet, farrier, instructor, saddler. You will expect perfect service forgetting that a living being is serving you who is dealing with their own ups and downs too.

The days where clients are allowed to misbehave in the life of a service provider, are long gone. I want it to be known, that almost every single equine pro I know, struggles with this, and has chosen to exit the matrix. They love their work. Probably your horse loves their time with you too. But they both need you to back off, relax, and allow them off days, imperfections, and grace periods too.

I thank my community for offering that to be... unrelentingly. I offer it to them, unconditionally.

I thank my horses for demanding nothing less of me, than the grace to accept their imperfections.

03/07/2025

So true

“Stop overthinking. I can feel every thought the moment it hits your body.”
— Your Horse 🐴🧠💫

You may think you’re hiding it well—
the nerves, the doubt, the second-guessing.
But your horse already knows.
They felt it before you even moved.

🐎Because to them, your thoughts aren’t quiet.
They echo in your hands.
They tighten your seat and shift your energy.

✨So take a breath.
✨Drop into the now.
🙌🏽Trust that you don’t need to know everything to feel your way through.

Your horse isn’t asking for perfection—
they’re asking for presence💕

02/07/2025

“Don’t rush me. I’m teaching you patience disguised as progress.”

Breathe. Settle. Listen.
Sometimes, the slow path leads to the deepest bond. 🐴💫

28/06/2025

The best sound! 💕🐎

27/06/2025

Congratulations Dani Bromley and Emmy Lou! 💕🐎

🇺🇸🏆2025 CHAMPIONS🏆🇺🇸
RANCH PLEASURE: Dani Bromley & Zippin Little Mama
SPONSOR: Erica Leatherer
Congratulations Dani on your accomplishments at the 2025 All-Breed Youth Horse Show and thank you to Erica for supporting our show!! ❤️ 🇺🇸 💙

26/06/2025

Viggo Mortensen once said:
"Someone once asked me what horses taught me most. I said—everything I needed to unlearn.
They don’t care who you are, or what you've done. They respond to how present you are in that exact moment.
Over time, I realized that if I approached people the way I approach a nervous horse—with patience, with honesty, and without ego—life became a lot quieter, a lot clearer.
You don’t control a horse. You earn its trust.
And maybe that’s the lesson for everything else too.”*

26/06/2025

There will come a point in your horsemanship journey where you are faced with the reality that it is 100% up to you whether or not the relationship with your horse will work out.

Many people these days are trying to buy something that cannot be bought: connection, a relationship, a partnership. I see people on both sides of the aisle—those spending thousands of dollars on a perfectly trained horse, and those on a tight budget looking for a diamond in the rough. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter which route you take, because all roads eventually lead to the same place: your own accountability.

Of course, some roads are harder than others. Some horses come with deeper wounds, just as some people do. And not everyone has the same resources or support. I’ve been there. But even so, the core truth remains: no matter the starting point, the work of relationship begins within.

A horse is not a machine, nor a puppet, nor a slave. They are a mirror, a compass, a living, breathing presence that reflects more than we often want to see. We can live in the illusion that we’re doing all the right things, but ultimately, it all comes down to who we are in the doing—what we carry, how we move, what we project.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing we’re owed something in return for the money we’ve spent on a horse. But the horse owes you nothing—and yet, they offer everything, if you’re willing to meet them without armor.

The sooner you realize the success of the partnership falls entirely on your shoulders—and the sooner you begin your inner work to unravel the illusions and expectations you may hold—the sooner you’ll begin to connect with the horse in front of you. Not the one in your head. Not the one in your past. The one right here, now.

22/06/2025

✨That voice in your head asking “what if I mess it up?”
✨It’s not a stop sign — it’s a signal.

🙌🏽It means you’re close to something that matters.
🙌🏽It means you’re stretching, leveling up, becoming.

✨And your horse can feel it too.
✨Not the fear — but the moment you choose to walk forward anyway.
Even if it’s slow. Even if it’s not pretty.

💪🏼Courage isn’t loud.
Sometimes, it’s just one quiet step forward when everything in you wants to pull back.

💕So breathe.
✨Trust the work you’ve done.
✨And ride straight into that next moment like it’s exactly where you’re meant to be.


🐎🔥