Selah Farms

23/10/2022

https://youtu.be/dfQnLaS9pAs

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23/10/2022

23/10/2022

The rumors are true! Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament - Dallas will be joining us at ! We are grateful that they'll be sharing their amazing exhibition of talented horses and equestrians on Saturday November 12th! Don't miss it!


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26/07/2022

There's a little bit of a story behind this photo.

Lately in my videos I have been talking a lot about only asking yes questions, that is only asking questions that:

a) The horse knows the answer to.
b) Doesn't know the answer to but has the education to know how to search for answers and ability to be able to figure it out (this is a big part of training a horse to do things he doesn't yet know how to do).
C) The horse knows the answer to AND is capable of doing it in his current emotional state (this is a common one I see where the horse knows how to do something, but is not in a good enough emotional state at that moment to do it, and get's punished for not doing it).

Asking questions the horse doesn't know the answer to, then delivering a repercussion for not doing it, is a very common way people have their horses lose trust in them. This loss of trust makes the next request less likely to happen, and then it just becomes a downward spiral of negative feeling about being asked to do anything.

On the day this photo was taken, I has a Grand Prix dressage rider visiting for a few days, and I was helping her with some issues she was having with a young imported warmblood stallion. After I had helped her, we got Bundy and Petey (pictured) out and she was showing me some exercises I could do with them, and I was showing her some of the things they could do.

Petey and I ended up bridle-less and saddle-less, which I have done before I had ridden him around that way, I had done flying lead changes like that, I had done spins like that, but I had never run him and done a sliding stop like that.

I had stopped him without using the reins (all reiners can do this), I had ridden him ba****ck, I can ride ba****ck, and I had ridden him bridle-less So he and I can do all the parts individually.

I said to the dressage rider "I've never tried this before, lets see what happens", I then said to my son Tyler "Grab the camera, this might make a good picture" I then ran and stopped Petey, and the resulting photo captures the first time I ever tried a bridle-less ba****ck sliding stop

It looks like something very hard to do, and is a pretty cool image, but worked perfectly the first time I asked because he knew all the parts, and I just had to put them together.

18/06/2022

Frying Pan Farm

04/06/2022

31/05/2022

25/04/2022

Back by popular demand! After almost 10 YEARS of basically hiatus... life has its ways of forcing a 'pause' on us. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what the meaning of 'Selah' is! Selah is a Hebrew word (you'll find it used in Psalms) that was used to show a pause in the music. Just like the musical symbol for a 'rest' in written music, the Selah is a 'dramatic pause' - a rest take by force! Some times that is exactly what is needed to reflect, refresh and restart! A lot has happened in the past decade, both for me personally/professionally and for the world of Working Equitation. The former organization I was a part of starting and growing (USA WE) is no longer in operation. However, there is a new one called USA WE, http://usawe.org and they now have WAWE recognition! I am not in FL currently, I am happily married to a wonderful man who is an active duty Navy Diver. We are stationed in Virginia Beach, VA and I am currently developing a couple of nice prospects for both WE, dressage and eventing. I'll be keeping everyone posted on developments as well as opportunities for participating in WE clinics, shows and coaching in the coming months!