Live Oaks Lane Farm

08/09/2024

So often forgotten!

Bluebonnet

Think about this…

Horses (and us!) are essentially 100% molecularly made from the nutrients provided in food 🤯

Missing nutrients in the diet is like trying to build a house without all the materials—without all the necessary components, the structure can't be properly supported or function as intended. And while that house may look ok from the outside, is more likely to have more issues sooner than a house built properly.

“You are what you eat” couldn’t be more true.

08/06/2024

Live Oaks Lane Farm, a boutique dressage training and breeding facility, is looking to add 1-2 part time team members to our program. Our summer intern is headed back to college and we will miss her greatly. We have wonderful clients, happy horses, and positive friendly environment.

This position is roughly 4-5hrs in the evenings and includes feeding, turnout, stalls (bw 7-10), some grooming, and misc other horse handling activities. We have approximately 30 horses including mares, foals, gregarious young stock, and stallions. Currently looking to fill 2-3 evenings a week. Scheduling can be coordinated with my other feeder but she would like two back to back nights off.

Also looking for a morning feeder, approximately 1-2hrs a day. Would prefer to trade for lessons / ride time for this position.

Experience not necessary - we are willing to train the right candidate. Being confident and self assured around animals, reliable, good attention to detail, and not afraid to sweat is the most important. Farms are a labor of love not a 9-5pm position.

07/22/2024

"We must never forget, every time we sit on a horse, what an extraordinary privilege it is: to be able to unite one's body with that of another sentient being, one that is stronger, faster and more agile by far than we are, and at the same time, brave, generous, and uncommonly forgiving." William Steinkraus, Olympic Gold Medalist

07/08/2024

Keep this page to hand — we explain the Olympic dressage format and all the rules that will be used in Paris this summer.

06/24/2024

!Just one of the many reasons we love !

Is your horse feed safe? Ionophore contamination in horse feed can be deadly. Learn how to prevent ionophore poisoning by choosing ionophore-FREE feed mills and proper storage.

06/07/2024

Sweet, brave, and stunning to look at, Cher (C Her Shine) is a schoolmaster who has been there and done that. A hunter in her former life, she is well traveled with plenty of show miles including lots of time hacking outdoors in the cattle fields at her home. Now she prefers dressage and has scores into the 70’s at training level. She schools first level with aptitude up to 3rd. Still owned by her breeder she is looking for a forever home to love and spoil her as she so deserves.

2010 Oldenburg Mare - 16.2hds

Located in Houston, TX

https://youtu.be/XtamIeNXiEA

05/19/2024

This 👇

Ernst Hoyos, talks about his philosophy which he developed as a Spanish Riding School head rider:
"I am looking for right balance. Further down in front is for me, too far, and not far enough, is too high. The task is to find the middle for each horse you ride. If you ride the horse too far down then shoulder is too strongly blocked and they can't be as expressive in front. If you are too far up, then you have lost 'over the back' automatically, then you don't have the hind legs any more. If you have the middle, then the horse's shoulders can still reach - and muscles from the horse are not stressed by extreme up-riding, or by extreme deep-riding. This is the healthier middle way, by being in the centre, it is much better for the horse than being extremely high or low. Our young horses they start with a little trot but they are reaching. The shoulders are moving bigger and bigger."

05/16/2024

They W-I-L-L N-O-T D-O I-T.

Will not do what? Use active walks for strength training as an. add-on to their regular training schedules. Eventers, show jumpers, dressage riders, whoever could gain benefit from having stronger equine athletes.

What are you talking about?

Well, this---In 1974 Jack LeGoff had a shallow bench of advanced 3-day horses to send to the World Championshipd to be held in September at Burghley. He had six riders and six horses, zero extras if one got hurt. He wanted to maximize their fitness, because cross country day, back then, would be over 17 miles long, and would require one hour and twenty minutes of trotting and galloping.

So he used vigorous long walks three days a week in addition to the normal schools. So say we did 45 minutes of flat work in the morning, which, with warmup and cool down might take an hour, give or take. Then, in the afternoon, say Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, he would have us saddle up again after lunch, and go hike around the open hills at Wylie. About one to one and a half hours, as I remember, each walk day.

Walks do not stress horses much. They are highly unlikely to cause injury. They build base strength and create muscular development. They are a win-win.

But virtually NOBODY does this, Most human sports teams now employ strength coaches because when technique starts to fail, raw strength can create that winning edge. Why would human horse trainers not want stronger horses?

But does ANYONE grasp this in 2024? Or, if they do, do they make the effort to actually do it?

There’s a hidden gorilla in the room, actually more of a train than a gorilla, It is called the Excuse Train. Nobody wants to admit being lazy, so they dig up reasons to deflect.

“I don’t have time.” That’s a big one.
“I don’t have a place to do it.”
I don’t have enough help.”

But the real reason is usually more basic, six words. “I don’t want to do it.”

Everyone wants an edge. Strength is an edge. There’s a reasonably safe and straightforward method to add strength, Take Jack’s advice or deny it----.

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05/02/2024

It may be rainy and gloomy today, but the Texas oven is preheating.

If you have a horse with anhidrosis (not sweating) or is prone to anhidrosis, now is the time to start your preventative measures, if you haven't already. Schedule your appointment for acupuncture and start feeding electrolytes and/or the product of your choice--One AC, dark beer, etc., whatever you need to do to keep them sweating.

05/02/2024

Live Oaks Lane Farm, home of USDF Gold Medalist Cynthia P. Hall is boutique dressage training and breeding facility. Cynthia has a passion for teaching and can accommodate both haul-ins as well as lessons of all levels on the farm school horses. The farm is set up with an air bnb to accommodate out of town clients wishing to stay for educational getaways. Onsite training packages available for horses of all levels (contact for availability). Competition programs available but not required.

Cynthia’s foundation is in classical dressage with all coaching and training principles and concepts coming from the European military manuals combined with a compassionate focus on a holistic horse & rider relationship and how the two bodies interact to make one beautiful partnership. Riders of all levels, disciplines, and goals are welcome to explore the art of horsemanship from the ground up in our positive and and empowering environment.

www.LiveOaksLane.com

04/16/2024

04/01/2024

Absolutely 💯

Share treasures of dressage training knowledge from the great Nuno Oliveira:
“One of the beauties of art resides in the technically perfect ex*****on and the relaxed ease of the artist. In order to obtain the greatest brilliance in the ex*****on of any exercise it is necessary that the horse works with the lightest aids.”
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2024/03/nuno-oliveira-and-his-treasure-trove-of-equestrian-wisdom/

03/29/2024

We love getting our horses out on the trails for cross training!

They W-I-L-L N-O-T D-O I-T.

Will not do what? Use active walks for strength training as an. add-on to their regular training schedules. Eventers, show jumpers, dressage riders, whoever could gain benefit from having stronger equine athletes.

What are you talking about?

Well, this---In 1974 Jack LeGoff had a shallow bench of advanced 3-day horses to send to the World Championshipd to be held in September at Burghley. He had six riders and six horses, zero extras if one got hurt. He wanted to maximize their fitness, because cross country day, back then, would be over 17 miles long, and would require one hour and twenty minutes of trotting and galloping.

So he used vigorous long walks three days a week in addition to the normal schools. So say we did 45 minutes of flat work in the morning, which, with warmup and cool down might take an hour, give or take. Then, in the afternoon, say Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, he would have us saddle up again after lunch, and go hike around the open hills at Wylie. About one to one and a half hours, as I remember, each walk day.

Walks do not stress horses much. They are highly unlikely to cause injury. They build base strength and create muscular development. They are a win-win.

But virtually NOBODY does this, Most human sports teams now employ strength coaches because when technique starts to fail, raw strength can create that winning edge. Why would human horse trainers not want stronger horses?

But does ANYONE grasp this in 2024? Or, if they do, do they make the effort to actually do it?

There’s a hidden gorilla in the room, actually more of a train than a gorilla, It is called the Excuse Train. Nobody wants to admit being lazy, so they dig up reasons to deflect.

“I don’t have time.” That’s a big one.
“I don’t have a place to do it.”
I don’t have enough help.”

But the real reason is usually more basic, six words. “I don’t want to do it.”

Everyone wants an edge. Strength is an edge. There’s a reasonably safe and straightforward method to add strength, Take Jack’s advice or deny it----.

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03/22/2024

"Many trainers - unaware of neural fatigue - advocate constant aids. Examples crop up in all riding disciplines.

Dressage trainers often teach riders to hold steady on the outside rein at all times, as a support to the horse. Hunter/jumper trainers frequently ask that riders maintain strong lower leg pressure, to keep the horse forward and rider secure, etc.

All of these are static cues; they are applied, maintained, and unchanged. They defy the reality of neural fatigue, causing us to ride against a horse's brain rather than with it. Very quickly, receptor cells in the horse's mouth or sides tire.

They can't continue to send ‘pressure’ signals to the horse's brain.

That's why constant aids become meaningless - its not the horse refusing to respond, it's that he'd have to override his own brain cells to do so."

- Horse Brain Human Brain, Dr. Janet Jones