Palmer Equestrian, LLC

12/17/2023

Our favorite days are lessons with coach Allie days ♥️

12/17/2023

Our favorite days are lessons with coach Allie days ♥️

12/03/2023

Loud people make quiet horses?
Maybe.
I don’t know about you, but as a highly sensitive person, when I’m around loud, quick moving, erratic and insensitive people, I tend to withdraw. If I can’t get away from them for whatever reason, the only way for me to get through being around someone like that is to somewhat disassociate.

All horses are highly sensitive, until someone creates lack of sensitivity in the horse.
Why would I want a horse to do that around me?
I’m certainly not saying you should tip toe around your horse, and you should very certainly prepare them for life. But why would you ever want to teach the horse that our body, our energy, our feel and the world at large is meaningless stimulus to be shut out?

Quiet, soft and calm people produce quiet, soft and calm horses. Smooth people who move with awareness create confident horses.

People who have self awareness and sensitivity to a horse’s needs produce quiet horses.

People who can prepare a horse to experience all of life’s uncertainties without creating a freeze or withdrawal response create quiet horses.

Quiet people create quiet horses.

Every horse needs a different touch, and only a person willing to spend more time listening than making assumptions about a horse can create a truly soft, calm but responsive horse.

As my teacher says: leave the life in, take the fear out!

11/20/2023

Nothing better than a good mare ♥️

“There’s something different about the way a good mare connects with her rider. It’s special. Like an unspoken agreement. Once a mare chooses you as her person, it’s like she has an instinct to protect you, to fight for you. It’s almost as if she takes ownership of you.

I believe the good mares have a deep sense of intuition. They can read your mind. They know what you’re thinking even before you do. The good mares I know breathe fire in the face of challenge and then somehow, miraculously, know to quiet themselves when a timid child is plopped on their back for a pony ride.

They are clever, cunning and calculated, which can be your greatest enemy or your saving grace. The good mares I know do not tolerate egotistical riding. They do not tolerate force. They demand tact, finesse and emotional control. But once you have won a mare’s heart, you have won all of her. In exchange for your best—and nothing less—she will give you everything.”

Written by: Lindsay Paulsen

10/30/2023

Perfection 🙌🏽

09/28/2023

6’2 & 16 hands— love my little red Ferrari 🏎️

09/21/2023

Let him be a horse. Feed him and take care of him and love him but whether he’s the best horse in the world or a horse the world will never see, let him be a horse. Let him roll in the mud. Eat grass. Gallop in a field. See the inside of a stall as little as possible. Touch other horses. Heaven forbid, let him go out with other horses. So at the end of his life you don’t look back and see a life of solitude and bubble wrap. These are social, sentient beings. Not slaves for our enjoyment. That should be the direction dressage is going. - Liz Austin

06/06/2023

Annie says she is your ally🏳️‍🌈

05/15/2023

If you show up on a horse you love, then you’ve already won everything there is to win 💫🏆

05/03/2023

If you know how to interpret his signs and communications, all your questions will essentially be answered, especially in terms of how well your ride is going.

04/20/2023

Read this article once, then a second time, and then maybe even once more after that.

I’ve spent a lot of time around a lot of performance horses over the years. Many of them have been English sport horses – show hunters, show jumpers, and dressage horses – but barrel racing horses and American Saddlebred horses and Cutting horses and endurance horses, too. And it seems sometim...

04/12/2023

Annie was such a rockstar (as always) for our jump school with Allie Anderson last weekend🔥 we are so fortunate to have such a great coach! Big thank you to Kelly Jensen for these awesome photos 😊

03/26/2023

It starts with the right mares ♥️

03/25/2023

Somewhere in the world, a future Olympic champion is a foal out in a field. He’s ewe-necked, sickle-hocked, downhill and shaggy, with a club foot and a chunk of mane missing, because his buddy chewed it off.

Somewhere in the world, there’s a young horse that everyone says is too short to make it big. In three years, he’ll be jumping the standards, but right now he’s fat and short and no one is paying him any mind.

Somewhere in the world there’s a 7-year-old who can’t turn right, and a 10-year-old who has not shown the ability to put more than two one-tempis together without losing it, and a 14-year-old who hasn’t yet reached his peak, and all of them will be at the next Olympic Games.

Somewhere else in the world, there’s a rider who is thinking of packing it in. Maybe the bills are getting out of control, or she’s killing herself to get enough help in her own riding development because she’s having to spend all her time riding and teaching to make ends meet and change needs to happen, and she’s wondering if it’s worth it. She’s thinking it’s time to just give up and be a local trainer, to shelve her dreams of international competition. And then she’s going to shake off the doubt, double down, and make a team in the next 15 years.

Somewhere in the world, one of the next great team riders is 9 years old and couldn’t tell if she was on the right posting diagonal if her life depended on it.

Somewhere in the world there’s a future team rider who just got told that she’ll never make it because she’s too chubby, because she’s too short, because she’s too late.

There are horses who will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars that will never amount to anything, and there are horses who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to be never seen or heard from again, and there are horses who will fly under the radar until suddenly they’re setting the world on fire.

There are riders who will win Junior and Young Rider competitions only to quit riding completely, riders who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to get stuck in their comfort zones and never come to fruition, and there are riders who will make their first Olympic team at 50, at 55, at even older than that.

And yes, there are the horses that will be brilliant from day one, and there are the riders for whom success both comes early and stays late. But more often than not, history has shown that the unlikely story, the horse who was passed over in favor of his more expensive stablemate, the rider who no one saw coming, is the more likely path to greatness.

Credit and written by Lauren Sprieser at Chronicle Of The Horse

03/23/2023

03/17/2023

03/11/2023

Had a blast on my favorite girl today ☺️

A big thank you to Allie Anderson for the fantastic instruction and help, as always— we are so grateful to have such a great coach come for all these clinic weekends regardless of winter storms or cold temps 😊

And thank you to Lynda for videoing us today!

02/27/2023

02/21/2023

Treat your questionably sane, small, explosive, yet incredibly talented mare with love, patients, and respect, and she in return will give you everything she has and then some ♥️

02/18/2023

02/14/2023

Happy Valentine’s Day from my two valentines💘

02/09/2023

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Somewhere in the world, the 2028 Olympic champion is a foal out in a field. He’s ewe-necked, sickle-hocked, downhill and shaggy, with a club foot and a chunk of mane missing, because his buddy chewed it off.

Somewhere in the world, there’s a young horse that everyone says is too short to make it big. In three years, he’ll be jumping the standards, but right now he’s fat and short and no one is paying him any mind.

Somewhere in the world there’s a 7-year-old who can’t turn right, and a 10-year-old who has not shown the ability to put more than two one-tempis together without losing it, and a 14-year-old who hasn’t yet reached his peak, and all of them will be at the next Olympic Games.

Somewhere else in the world, there’s a rider who is thinking of packing it in. Maybe the bills are getting out of control, or she’s killing herself to get enough help in her own riding development because she’s having to spend all her time riding and teaching to make ends meet and change needs to happen, and she’s wondering if it’s worth it. She’s thinking it’s time to just give up and be a local trainer, to shelve her dreams of international competition. And then she’s going to shake off the doubt, double down, and make a team in the next 15 years.

Somewhere in the world, one of the next great team riders is 9 years old and couldn’t tell if she was on the right posting diagonal if her life depended on it.

Somewhere in the world there’s a future team rider who just got told that she’ll never make it because she’s too chubby, because she’s too short, because she’s too late.

There are horses who will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars that will never amount to anything, and there are horses who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to be never seen or heard from again, and there are horses who will fly under the radar until suddenly they’re setting the world on fire.

There are riders who will win Junior and Young Rider competitions only to quit riding completely, riders who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to get stuck in their comfort zones and never come to fruition, and there are riders who will make their first Olympic team at 50, at 55, at even older than that.

And yes, there are the horses that will be brilliant from day one, and there are the riders for whom success both comes early and stays late. But more often than not, history has shown that the unlikely story, the horse who was passed over in favor of his more expensive stablemate, the rider who no one saw coming, is the more likely path to greatness.

Credit and written by Lauren Sprieser at Chronicle Of The Horse

02/06/2023

Great words 😍
credits: Gatsby Quality Products

02/02/2023

Every horse person knows what this means 😁
Just when we thought winter would never end, Annie said today, “Ignore the hog! You should always listen to me— Spring is near!”

01/28/2023