AP Beauregard

03/09/2025

Interesting findings.

I was really surprised that this study found jumping horses to have more neck pain than those in other disciplines. I for sure thought Dressage horses would ...

03/08/2025

No sedation guys! And let me tell u... 👇

So first I had a little chiro work done by my friend Eddie Esparza! He said I had a few things out and he fixed them, but it was way less than I'd had out last time and took, maybe less than 5 min to sort me out. 💪

Then came my teeth. He began my teeth and my Hooman was asking of I'd had sedation and he's like nope. My Hooman's jaw dropped. Everyone was saying how amazing I was! I have to say, I was pretty amazing... 😂 🤣 🙈

After my teeth I got to have my hay and food back. It had been removed because if you sedate a horse you need to make sure we are awake before we can eat it or we could choke on it.

After I had a little hay, my Hooman took my on my first proper walk around the new property. I saw the Dressage ring the Jumping ring and a dog and some giant horse trailers that were moving. I didn't spook 1 time! Hooman said I did so good and gave me treats! 🥰 🥰

Once back at my home barn I got to have my breakfast grain. It was a day of firsts and I had so much fun! 🥰

03/05/2025

Isn't it interesting how just a little change in how we look at something, can change the entire way we think about it? BTW... Did you see the rainbow in the original? That was not edited in. What do you think it means?

***In other NEWS! 👇

MISS. PRINCESS LEIA HAD TO GO TO THE VET YESTERDAY! SHE WAS NOT FEELING GOOD AND IT TURNED OUT SHE HAS AN EAR INFECTION! 😢 SHE WAS SENT HOME WITH AN EAR ANTIBIOTIC, THAT ALSO HAS A STEROID IN IT, THAT SHE HAS TO HAVE FOR THE NEXT 14 DAYS! THEN SHE GOES BACK IN FOR A RECHECK. PLEASE PRAY FOR PRINCESS LEIA! THANK YOU! 🙏

03/03/2025

I call this look I'm giving the "Eye of the 🐯". I think it's rather impressive myself, but not quite as impressive as my new home. I'm not sure how this happened that I ended up here, but I must have been a really, really, really good boy. It is run by the same people that ran my other barn. They sold that other property and then moved their business here and me and Hooman went with them. 🙏Ending up here was truly unexpected, and I and my Hooman are feeling really blessed right now. What do you guys think of this place? Swipe for photos.

03/01/2025

He's at his new barn! The barn he was at sold, and they went to a dif barn and we went with them. So we are with the same people, just a different location. I was told Beau loaded great and went into his stall like he's always lived there! Now he's outside.

I haven't seen this new place really, yet other than in photos, and a quick drive to see how it was to drive there a few weeks ago. I'm excited to finally get to see it properly soon!

03/01/2025

Read about my experience getting to do a live with Master Saddler and founder of Schleese Saddles, Jochen Schleese!

I had the pleasure, recently, of being asked if I'd like to speak, one on one live on Instagram, with Jochen Schleese.

02/28/2025

Don't tell Princess Leia I said this 👇

But

This may be the cutest puppy in the entire planet world! 🌍

So the barn has a new wee little puppy and it tried to take me for a walk. I was all on board with that, but my Hooman said I couldn't go out to play, because I had to work. 😢. My Hooman needs to lighten up and give me a self care day 👀, even though I just had one. Anyway, this puppy is the cutest thing ever. I really like the puppy. Would you like to see video of me and the puppy together?

02/26/2025

Sometimes I think my Hooman is lying about her age... Should I card her? 😂 🤣

02/26/2025

“Today, the School’s Riders and First Riding Masters, who have served a long apprenticeship in their profession, are such guardians of tradition. They started as pupils in the stables wearing a simple gray uniform. They then learned their trade, and a good seat in particular, on the so-called “Professors”, the old, tried stallions of the School, because learning to sit comes before learning to ride, and only from a secure, pliant, well-balanced seat comes a feeling for the correct aids. Those fine, invisible signs by which the rider communicates with a horse were in fact learned from well-ridden horses who would not dream of acting upon a false aid.
The seat – the rider’s weight which must at all times be fully balanced with the horse that bears it - is of fundamental importance because an incorrect seat will cause the rider’s weight to distort every movement of the horse.

The last word on this, the true basis of all riding, comes from the Director of the Spanish Riding School, Kurt Albrecht, in his book Dogmas of the Art of Riding (1981).
It sounds almost too simple: “The rider must seek to distribute his own center of gravity over the horse and maintain it there throughout every movement, whatever the gait he may require of the animal…”

However, it is no easy thing when the horse canters, gallops, turns, bends, and rising on its hind legs, or even makes a frightened sideways jump. In all circumstances, however, Albrecht says, “…security of the seat is not a matter of keeping a grip with the legs or holding the reins, but entirely of maintaining balance in the saddle.”
Quote courtesy of the book THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL: Four Centuries of Classic Horsemanship by Hans Handler

Photo of Oberbereiter Klaus Krzisch and Siglavy Mantua I courtesy of the book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dressage (Martin Diggle)

02/26/2025

This was so fun talking to THEEEEEEE Jochen Schleese about saddle fit today! I feel very honored to have been invited to take part in this. He's a wealth of knowledge and it's so kind of him to be willing to share that knowledge with others. I hope you enjoy this replay of out live together. ☺️

02/26/2025

The concept of "between the aids" is one of the most basic fundamentals of effective horsemanship. Some comments on my recent post about circling a horse to stop them from rushing jumps caused me to believe that many riders do not understand the concept of holding a horse between the aids.

The natural aids are the seat, hands and legs. The diagram shows the applications of the hands and feet aids while moving in a straight line and in a bend or turn. During these applications of the legs and hands the seat is deep and stable, acting as a core or source center for the legs and hands.

The left image shows a horse moving in a straight line, we see the leg aids holding the horse's hind in a straight line track. If the horse swung their butt out to the right, the rider would bend their right leg at the knee to move the leg back toward the hind to correct the swing of the horse's hind to the outside. This will bring the horse back into alignment. The hind is held straight by the leg aids.

In the front of the horse we see the horse's head held between the reins by the hands. Note that I have drawn the reins wide spread, which is how we work a young prospect to teach straightness. As the horse learns to track straight, the reins are held closer together.

What you should gather from the image is that the hand aids and the legs leg aids, when moving straight, work together in a parallel manner to keep the forehand aligned while the hind is kept aligned by the feet. Combined, we achieve a single straight track.

When we change to a bend or turn, the parallel application of the leg and hand aids changes dramatically. To bend a horse, we first switch from parallel aids to inside leg to or combined with the outside rein. This starts a bend from the middle of the horse. If you only use the reins to turn, you do not get a bend, but rather the body of the horse follows the head much like when a child pulls a little red wagon. This is unstable and it makes horses heavy on the forehand.

Once we begin the bend with the inside leg aid applied together with the outside rein holding the horse between the aids, we apply the outside leg with the inside rein as a mild counter energy or balance to the action of the inside leg to the outside rein. In a bend, instead of parallel application of the aids, whe have a cross or X made up of inside leg to outside rein and outside leg to inside rein holding the horse between the aids.

This is not as complicated as words might make it seem. Simply stated, we want to bend the horse around the rider's inside leg and all the other aid applications are to manage and contain the energy surrounding this bend.

What is common to both moving straight and bending a horse is that the aids operate in pairs, first parallel and then crossed in a X. The horse in both cases is held steady between two sets of aids.

Comments in my prior circle-a-horse-to-stop-rushing-jumps post said circling in front of a jump would encourage refusals. This might happen if the circles are not accomplished with the horse held clearly between the aids. THis gives the horse the opportunity to consider a refusal, but if a horse is held between the aids when circled, they learn that the rider is in charge and a refusal is not an option.

link to prior circling a horse post -www.facebook.com/BobWoodHorsesForLife/posts/pfbid0apvz5Rm7tNhqER6j7hy8hCaUhhPvDosasYdKyH4zUqiAzAd1LM4rCJsSEboMBo4hl

02/25/2025

Today, Thursday Feb 25th, 3pm Eastern Time, on Instagram, my Hooman will be going live with the saddle fitter to discuss a few topics of interest centered around saddles and the importance of proper fit, for both the rider and the horse We'd love for you to join us and we hope to see you there!

02/21/2025

👉 My tail is too luxurious to fit into 1 square box... so I split it into 2 to make sure you got the full effect. You are welcome. 🙏 😂 🤣

02/21/2025

I should design new MERCH sometime.

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02/19/2025

Why is my Hooman LAUGHING? 👀 SWIPE TO SEE!