The Sandy Spur

11/10/2024

The greatest glory in life lies not in never failing, but rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela

11/10/2024

It never gets easier, you just get better. Keep hustling

11/06/2024

A little bit of what we are about.
We keep it enjoyable for these babies and don’t believe in getting one starved down or exhausted to get a ride on one.
We have a clean and safe facility, with stalls and pens that are kept clean, and they always have fresh water, and quality hay.
With a background from showing Reiners, and cutters to PRCA level rodeo athletes we strive to offer a performance horse quality experience to our clients and do our best by their equine athletes.

10/30/2024

A colorful bunch of two year olds

10/28/2024

This little guy has taken extra time, twice a day riding and a whole lot of patience and love. He is gonna be a nice little horse.

10/28/2024

Pearls first Ride was calm cool and collected.

10/27/2024

🍁🍂

10/27/2024

Appreciative of every minute of this beautiful Fall weather

10/22/2024

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

10/22/2024

10/22/2024

DREAM

10/21/2024

Golden Autumn evenings

10/14/2024

It’s been a beautiful fall for riding these c**ts.

10/10/2024

Did you know every c**t in training with us is fed Redmond Equine Daily Gold Bentonite Clay?

Here is why

NATURAL DIGESTIVE STRESS RELIEF SUPPLEMENTS FOR HORSES

Repel Buffer acid + support gut microbiota
Repel Bind + remove harmful toxins
Repel Improve nutrient absorption + vitality

For many 2 and 3 year olds it’s a stressful time heading to the trainer. They are somewhere new and no friends they recognize. They now are in a new routine and as easy as we like to make this transition for them, it’s does still cause stress.
We want to set these babies up for success and having happy tummies makes happy horses willing to learn and succeed!

We do have a code to save 15% off all Redmond products when you use code Smith15

10/04/2024

This is what it’s all about 🤠