The Stables On North Bickett LLC

09/07/2025

Any interest on an obstacle playday/clinic September 12th?

07/09/2025

🐠 Imagine your pelvis as an old-fashioned goldfish bowl. To maintain a correct posture and neutral spine while you ride, keep the water in the bowl level.

If your pelvis is tipped forward and your back hollow the water will spill out the front, if your pelvis is tilted back and your spine rounded it will spill out the back. A neutral spine that softly follows the horses movement will keep the water in.

What cues do you use to correct your position?

🐠 Image by Sandy Rambinowitz for Dressage Today 🐠

07/08/2025

Anyone interested in a obstacle play day? 11 to 1 on Friday? Message if interested.

06/12/2025

02/26/2025

Lesson times still available both for travel and on property but more limited. Get them booked before they are all gone! The weather is only getting nicer from here on!

02/22/2025

Have you ever noticed how the best riders/trainers are usually quiet and humble? They are confident and speak positively about their training but don’t have to go around obnoxiously bragging on themselves or belittling and critiquing others. You won’t find them commenting criticism on your Instagram posts. Even if that’s not how they would train they keep it to themselves. Just hustle, stay quiet, kind, and humble.

02/22/2025

Sun bathing but Blaze is taking all the sun 🌞

02/03/2025

Natural collection on Sandstorm.

Sandstorm has some wonderful training under him by two great gaited trainers. Remarkable temperament. Last year decided to try teaching him to collect like a ranch horse and build on the natural collection he had been trained with. He has taken to it wonderfully and with a squeeze of my legs he drops his head. The collection even has migrated into his gait and now canter/lope. It's good for these gaited horses to have NATURAL collection. Too many riders think you have to hold them in the collection of force the collection. Take a little time at the walk and some release when they give you an answer in the correct direction works wonders. It takes TIME but in the end it's more solid because the rider didn't force the horse to collect, the rider taught the horse how to properly carry itself.

As riders it's our job to make sure the horse carries itself correctly so they can have a long, healthy and happy life.