CP Horsemanship LLC

02/12/2024

02/10/2024

It is absolutely never to early to start your kids on their journey to horsemanship and groundwork. You will ensure their safety and teach them respect for these magnificent, powerful creatures by having your child learn to communicate in a way the horse understands. We have horses available for ground work lessons as well!

02/10/2024

This sweet boy just arrived from Hawaii 🌺he will be spending a couple months in training here until his family moves here as well and joins him. Looking forward to getting to know this boy!

02/09/2024

02/02/2024

My friend Peti, learning to relax. I am earning his trust and together we are learning so much from each other. What a very cool horse he is

01/26/2024

Some really nice long lining sessions today 👌🏼

01/24/2024

The golden girls enjoying dry turnout while their rooms get cleaned ❤️

01/20/2024

01/19/2024

That moment - that moment when the horse decides it’s not 100% sure of accepting you as their leader. And then it happens. They soften to you, and they invite you into their soul. You could give me a gold medal, 27 awards, 53 prizes and it would not fulfill me the way a single moment like this does. What a gift. Even though it was 20 degrees in this video and I had been In the cold for hours, I feel so lucky that I found this feeling of purpose in life.

01/19/2024

Can we take a moment to appreciate how handsome our new training horse is 😍

01/19/2024

Yay winter 🙃

01/17/2024

To create throughness with correct bend when your horse is crooked...

Imagine your crooked horse as a kinked hose. You need to straighten him to get the kinks out and get the water (his energy) flowing. Then you can bend him correctly.—Annie Morris

🎨: Sandy Rabinowitz

01/12/2024

One training spot still available for February! What a great opportunity to work on all the basics and horsemanship before next show season, fine tune your horse’s skills, and deepen your horse’s understanding of relaxation, fitness, and mechanics.

As always - the horses also get the Best possible care. Husbandry and the horse first ALWAYS. Photo of our beautiful Skye today ❤️

01/08/2024

Have one training spot available for the month of February! This is a great Opportunity to get your horse going before the show season 👍🏼

01/08/2024

"Apprendre, se satisfaire, se réjouir, se questionner, douter parfois, mais toujours avancer...ensemble, sur le même chemin" (Fred Ercemir)

📷 B. Lemaire / Ifce

01/02/2024

Butttttta 👌🏼

12/29/2023

HoofPics Photography thank you for these incredible photos of Oso. Basically GQ of horses😂😂

12/22/2023

Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful clients and followers! Looking forward to evolving even more in 2024 🌟

12/17/2023

Happy holidays to all of our wonderful clients and service providers! Looking forward to 2024 🌟

12/16/2023

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough. 🐻❤️

12/05/2023

The best teachers ❤️

11/24/2023

Quite often I hear horses who are not freely forward described as “lazy.” There are a few problems with this :

1- lazy is an anthropomorphic description. Horses don’t care about our ideas of work ethic, or even know what those are. Their priorities are eat, be secure in a herd, look out for danger, and eat. Their priorities are not inside leg to outside rein, they don’t care about doing straight flying changes, and they certainly don’t care that you have a show coming up. The only way they can become invested in your work is if it makes them feel good, as in brings them mental and physical well-being. Otherwise, you can threaten with your leg all you want and inspire fear response, but they aren’t lazy - they just don’t share your priorities.

2- most sluggish horses are extremely tight. Moving forward with a rider on their back is actually double or triple the amount of work that it should or could be. They are moving with a tight back, tight shoulders and weak abs and haunches. Likely the rider is tight as well, and quite likely the rider is not balanced as well as they could be and using reprimanding or nagging aids. This horse is working FAR harder then they need to be.

If a horse’s shoulders are supple, back is free to lift, core is engaged and working without interference, hind legs swinging at optimum range of motion, movement is easy and enjoyable. So your “lazy” horse is far out working a horse with looseness and alignment, because they have to work much harder just to go forward.

Imagine being pulled off your couch, given a 70 lb pack to carry that slips around and isn’t stable, and being asked to move forward through a series of obstacles without being fit or knowing how to position yourself. You aren’t going to be moving very fast either, and someone nagging you to speed up incessantly will probably make you quite resentful.

Something to think about next time you whip out the “L” word; which in my barn is a very very dirty word, along with stubborn ;)

11/24/2023

Mama has been feeling GOOD and certainly does not look like she’s in her twenties! We love our big mama ❤️❤️

11/21/2023

I present Hammy the hunter. Hamilton goes from ranch horse, to dressage queen, to steady hunter. He’s the Jack of all trades ❤️

11/19/2023

Turkey trot lesson + mimosas

11/15/2023

It was a gorgeous evening for a hack 😍

11/05/2023

Hunterpace fun ❤️ what a blast of a day. Despite a TON of chaos around us. The ponies were perfect. Love our group!

11/05/2023

Pre Hunter pace mimosas. CP Horsemanship does it right

11/02/2023

Oki had an awesome training ride and got to jump a crossrail today! Some photos of his nice flat work in between the fence