Bascule Farm LLC

10/27/2025

10/27/2025

10/21/2025

Waredaca 3Day event needs volunteers on Saturday! It’s endurance day, so lots of fun positions that dont need experience! Please consider helping out!!

We are looking for volunteers from October 22nd, 2025 to October 26th, 2025 near Laytonsville, MD.

10/17/2025

Barn Besties

10/17/2025

Barn Manager Cassie & former boarder, working student, groom and girl everything, Sophie! Before she moves away over several ponds!

09/27/2025

A few shots from Loch Moy's dressage and jumper rounds today! Great job to all our riders. Next up: cross country schooling next weekend and MDHT starter event the following

09/21/2025

Super fun cross country outing this morning!

09/17/2025

So much fun at Potomac Pony Club's combined test this past weekend! Making the most of this beautiful fall weather with outings every weekend!

09/13/2025

Buff is a quiet 16 hand TB gelding available for a 2day or 3day week lease (any days but Wednesdays & Saturdays). PM if you want to come try him! Poolesville Maryland

07/30/2025

Training Tip Tuesday... Working the foundation of the Training Pyramid today. It is good practice to return to the basics periodically to test the horse's rhythm and suppleness. Without those, the remaining parts of the pyramid are not possible.

Ride 10-meter voltes in each corner with a change of direction across the center of the ring. In the voltes, it is important to pay close attention to your geometry and that the horse is bending from poll to tail around the inside leg. If you are not sure if your geometry is correct, you can always count each quarter of the circle to see if you get the same number of strides. If all 4 quarters count the same, then you have an accurate circle.

Maintain the horse's rhythm as you leave the volte to the middle of the long side and turn onto the line between E&B. Remember, the turn onto and leaving this line are like riding a corner and there should be a straight line as you travel across the ring. The change of bend can take place over 3 strides, so as not to upset the balance of the horse. Straighten the horse over "X" and begin the new bend the stride after "X."

This may seem like a really simple exercise, but it's complexity is in the details. This can be performed in all gaits. You can do flying changes over X if your horse has them - testing the straightness of your change. You can add transitions or a halt at "X." Try to be 100% accurate in your geometry, voltes, corners, bend and straightness. It's much harder than it seems.

You might try a lengthening down the long side or across the diagonal after you have ridden the exercise correctly to see if you have more impulsion and stretch.

If you struggle to maintain a straight line, try placing the letter across the arena from you between the horse's ears and look straight ahead as if you are looking past the letter (not at your horse).

Let us know how it goes. Happy riding.

07/21/2025

Great job Sofia and Morgan at the PVDA dressage show yesterday - with Morgan even cracking 70% to win her class! We are so lucky to have Rascal and Lance (back) at Bascule teaching a new batch of teens