Kane Kountry Farm

11/27/2024

The "secret" to riding well is no secret at all. It`s doing the correct basics so many thousands of times that they become the way you do business. You "own" them.
Chin up, heels down, allowing hand, flat back, hip and knee angle closure, balanced over the center. Most people need thousands more repetitive hours, I think.

11/18/2024

Four years ago in my memories

Foxhunted the pony today. We were designated to lead hilltop and started out with two riders. Rosie seemed determined to be up with hounds. She was raring to go. By the end of the second run we were pretty much Freezing! Hands and feet were pretty numb. Ellie on her morgan was riding with me as we came to the edge of a corner of trees. All of a sudden the sound of cracking branches and three deer came leaping out of the woods next to us. Rosie shyed and jumped sideways but I stayed on. Then cracking branches again and a fourth deer came out and ran the other way. Then the pack of hounds came out the deer trail, Rachel was blowing the horn to call them back and I cracked my whip and placed Rosie in the way stopping most of the hounds, except 3. Linda went after them, Sonya regained her seat and stayed on, there was gun shots sounding. All in less then 5 minutes. Happily the rest of the day went better. All home and safe with my toes finally thawing out. The very nice Morgan mare tolerated the commotion quite well and was a star. Just an easy day leading Hilltop!

11/17/2024

Best pony ever

11/04/2024

Memories from years ago back when the medals were at Pineland.

11/03/2024

Emilia and trinity in the victory gallop for the 2’6 “ hunter derby at R&BT. Second place !

10/24/2024

Yes

A ditch and wall cross country jump looks pretty daunting as you walk the course. It's easy to imagine your horse hesitating and landing IN the damn thing. There IS actually a way to get used to these using show jumps, and here’s one thing to try.

Get your horse used to jumping over a very small plastic sheet, maybe as small as a foot wide, rolled out in front of a tiny vertical show jump. The sheet represents the open ditch.

Once the horse is saying “no big deal,” raise the vertical a hole and roll out the plastic tarp another 6 inches or so, and get the horse used to having something flat on the ground in front of the fence. Put a rail on the edge of the plastic to stabilize it, and to create a visual ground line.

Gradually roll out the tarp, little by little. You will be amazed at how readily the horse will adapt to this.

OK, realistically a tarp on the ground isn’t as daunting as a yawning chasm, but in terms of having to jump over, say, four feet of tarp in front of a jump, it’s EXACTLY the same effort as jumping a four foot wide ditch in front of a wall. Roll it out until it's bigger than the size of the actual ditch you'll be jumping, to see for yourself that the horse can do it.

Anyway, something to play with---.

09/22/2024

One of the first times at R&BT

09/17/2024

Ladds portrait

Almost done................

08/16/2024

Rode this little guy today. Just quite boring stuff.

08/04/2024

Individual dressage finals on channel 64 E