Baker Equestrian

11/01/2024

Happy Halloween!

09/27/2024

Baker Equestrian operated for a year of of Roisin’s daughter’s beautiful farm, and there aren’t many people as deserving of success and good fortune as Roisin and her daughter, Maria. This adorable Irish horse can be a handful! Such a fantastic example of a great partnership between horse and rider!

Hard earned and well deserved! I aspire to one day be as great a rider and horsewoman as Roisin!

AEC history was made today 🤩🤩🤩 Roisin O’Rahilly became a USEA AEC champion at 81 years young 🥰

09/26/2024

Here’s the ugly truth of what people don’t tell you about going professional:

You will work 13, 14, 15, 16+ hour days. Not for a lavish vacation, but to put fuel in a truck and a sheepish dinner on the table.
365 days a year. Rain. Snow. Christmas. Funerals. Hot and humid you are there, you are working.
People will tell you your six figure horses will never be nice enough and those three/four figure ones will never be rank enough.
The biggest shows are the loneliest places. People support you until you become a threat, then they will try and break you down.
You will see death and hardships. A lot of hardships.
You will want to give up.

Why don’t people tell you this? Simple. We wouldn’t have an industry.

What people don’t tell you is why you don’t give up:

When that quirky horse gets it.
When you get that first big sale, first client horse, first investor, or the first time your barn fills up.
When those few people believe in you and you start getting phone calls of people being sent to you.
When a training client strikes it big.
When you finish a day and look back at a farm and business you built.

Why don’t people tell you this? Because there’s not a grand enough word to describe that feeling and that’s exactly why we are here.

07/02/2024

06/28/2024

06/15/2024

Paul Belasik talks about neck position, and it’s importance:
“To me, neck shape is a very important connection to a humane and beautiful dressage. Regardless of the constant new amendments of regulations and guidelines from the competitive dressage organizations, it might be a good time to go over the fundamentals behind neck shape and its relationship to correct dressage, based on 500 years of experience and evidence.”
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2023/03/collection-and-the-neck/

06/15/2024

06/15/2024

'The Best $125 I Ever Spent.' Emily Graeser and Comic Relief Achieve Century Ride at Hunt Club Farms

05/27/2024

What a tragic end to such a wonderful Bicton International. Georgie was such a beautiful kind person and very talented rider. My heart, thoughts and prayers go out to poor poor Jesse and their families… it is absolutely devastating 😢💔💔

05/20/2024

Imagine you’re assigned a partner project in school. Only one of you gets to read the directions for the assignment, and then you have to explain it to your partner in a language that is secondary to both of you. You’d expect some miscommunications and misunderstandings, right?

That’s basically what’s happening while riding a horse. Whether in a lesson or a ride of your own direction, you as the rider are the only one who knows the assignment. It’s then your responsibility to relay that information to your horse, speaking through intention and cues that are a second language to both you and your horse. Your horse doesn’t understand what your trainer is saying he’s supposed to do - he’s relying on you to tell him.

Keep this in mind any time you’re riding and you feel like your horse isn’t listening, or you get frustrated with a missed distance or a sloppy transition. Remember that you’re the only member of this team who knows the assignment, and your horse is relying on you to tell him the game plan. Sometimes we make mistakes in our cues or our timing, we start thinking too many steps ahead or we forget to clue him into the next movement in time. Sometimes the horse is a little distracted, or tired, or not feeling it today. But most of the time, he’s doing his best he can with the information you’re giving him!

05/19/2024