Silvergate Farms Huntseat Riding School and Sport Horse Training Stable

07/23/2024

Best funny memes of The Day! 🐈‍⬛🥰🐾

07/19/2024

Recently, a friend and I were discussing our journey as horsewomen thus far. She and I both have older, retired mares who helped us take our riding careers to the next level and realize many of our dreams, as well as 2-year-old geldings we hope will be our riding futures. We’re at an interesting p...

07/16/2024

Olympian Kent Farrington’s five gymnastic exercises from the USEF Horsemastership Training Series.

07/10/2024

How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can’t carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babies before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.

07/08/2024

"...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 Equestrian

07/07/2024

One day you’re going to do everything right and it’ll still go wrong. You’ll give 100% but come up short. You’ll do you best, but your best won’t be good enough. I know how these statements sound, but believe it or not, they’re neither negative or pessimistic, and they’re not a comme....

07/06/2024

It’s disheartening and unbelievable to listen to people blame their horses for anything and everything that goes wrong.

07/05/2024

BY AMANDA TERBRUSCH “If you’re not first, you’re last” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot in my riding career. It was used in dead seriousness, as a phrase of endearment, or as a joke (as it often was on my college equestrian team). There is a lot to be said about placings at horse […]

06/29/2024

BY DAPHNE THORNTON OF TWO BIT TRAINING We are pretty committed to client education at Two Bit Training. Our unmounted lesson topics range from leg wrapping to taking a temperature and pulse to walking a course to explaining hunter judging. We’re big on writing our thoughts down and sending them ho...

06/15/2024

By PIPER KLEMM One of the most frustrating aspects of this sport is that overthinking does not work. This is an instinct-based sport, and there are so many incredible things that it connotes. On the negative side, it is so easy to think that it’s going to be easy and subsequently get angry when it...

06/08/2024

EDIT: Please do feel free to share/replicate/display this sign - I’d rather it went out into the world to be used freely and help horses far and wide than if it was just kept on social media!

I seem to spend a lot of time thinking about the ethics of horse sport, and whether we, as an industry, will be able to keep our social licence to operate.

Although we won’t get it right 100% of the time, I think the intent and knowledge behind our actions is a key part of the puzzle.

I have put this sign up on the gate of my arena, in the hope that it reminds me, all my clients and other users of the facilities to stop and think about our intent before embarking upon working our horses each day.

What do you think?

Photo: HDE ‘Promise to the Horse’.

05/29/2024

Please read:
I’ve been noticing a trend the last several years. We’ve let the next generation get soft. Kids want to ride, but they don’t want to LEARN HOW TO ride. They don’t like the heat, but they won’t get up early. They want a horse, but turn up their nose at the idea of cleaning stalls, as if it is beneath them. They want to make some money, but aren’t willing to work. They think horseback riding is something you do when the weather is perfect, and for the other 9 months of the year someone else can care for that animal’s needs. We have a problem folks, and I for one find it terrifying.
Let’s teach these kids to have a passion, and to commit to it, that in order to do something we love, it might at times require hard work, sweat and sacrifice.

05/27/2024

Today, we pause our rides to honor the brave souls who fought for our freedom. 🕊️ 🇺🇸

05/21/2024

05/16/2024

Absolutely true 🧡

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05/16/2024

05/15/2024