Maureen Sterling Dressage

28/01/2025

23/01/2025

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21/01/2025

This!!

Avoid Wintertime Dehydration

Horses will often slow or stop drinking in cold weather. Aside from general health, the increased risk of impaction colic, due to decreased water intake, is a serious concern.

There are several ways to keep your horse hydrated:

Salt and Electrolytes
Always have free-choice salt available, and supplement electrolytes during cold snaps or a metabolic pH balancer such as Hydrate + Recover

Grain Mash
Feed your regular daily grain or pelleted forage with a serving of salt or electrolytes as a mash in warm water. Avoid hot water and introducing a special mash or different specie of hay without a proper transition .
Warm(er) Water
If available, offer a bucket of lukewarm water a couple times a day to encourage drinking. When given the option, horses prefer warm water over icy.

Tank Covers
A tank cover with a drinking hole can be fashioned out of foam or other horse-safe material, to keep the surface of your tank from freezing.

Remove Ice
If electricity is not an option, be sure to remove all ice from tanks after breaking through.

Insulated Buckets
For those that hang buckets in stalls, insulated buckets can keep water from freezing for longer, but there is always a chance the surface will freeze.

Heated Automatic Waterers & Corded Tank Heaters
These seem like a godsend, but don’t assume you can go without checking! If there is an electrical short, a horse can sense the smallest current running through the water and will refuse to drink.

Stay warm my friends! 🥶

21/01/2025

Wishing I was able to attend. Thank you for the wonderful notes Eliza.

18/01/2025

~Welcome to Solo's Weekly Newsletter. ✨

I've recently been renovating our home. Imagine the type of guy who can fix, repair, and install anything with ease. Ya, that's not me. That's the opposite of me.

I used to think a skill saw was a type of visual IQ test.

But my lack of talent is mildly compensated by my effort.

I started with the bathroom. Fixing the drywall, painting, and putting in a new vanity, toilet, and shower.

Yes, it took me close to 9 months to complete, but I did it. Most of you women can create an entirely new human being in 9 months, and I'm patting myself on the back for painting a wall. But that's men for ya.

As I stood in my finished bathroom admiring my work, I saw all the little imperfections with my dry walling, the painting, the little thing I missed here, and the little detail I missed there.

But instead of feeling bad, I was proud of the fact that those imperfections were there. Those little mistakes were the result of my work. Where the drywall isn't perfect will always remind me that I installed it myself.

The imperfections made this bathroom mine.
Our world is obsessed with being perfect in every. single. moment. Social media dressage keyboard warfare specialists (S.M.D.K.W.S for short) will spend hours combing through videos, pausing and screenshotting the world's best riders to find a faulty moment. When found, they screech in delight, scramble to Facebook and post their findings. They sit, sweating, waiting for other S.M.D.K.W.S.'s to thumb's up their post talking about another professional who isn't perfect.

But to what end?

Just for a second, let's imagine a world where 50 of the world's top riders all could ride PERFECT dressage tests. Every moment of every ride was perfect. Every angle of their horse's limbs, every step, every vertebrae, and the rider's position, all followed the exact definition of perfection. Every time you paused the video, it was absolute perfection. In every show, the top 10 riders all receive scores of 100.

To determine the winners judges needed to look at the rider's bank account balances, and the one with the most money won. (So still kinda like now??🤪🤪If you're rich and reading this from your yacht draped in a fur coat, I was kidding. I love you, please buy some bridles.)

After 6 months of that, no one would ever watch dressage again. It would be so boring to watch perfect ride after perfect ride.

There'd be no excitement, no suspense, no uniqueness, no character. All of the things that make dressage fun!

It wouldn't be art. It would be accounting.🤮🤮(If you're an accountant reading this from your yacht, draped in calculator paper, that was a joke. I love accountants, please buy bridles.)

I love the idea that imperfections are a part of what gives each ride it's personality.

Dressage shouldn't be about making it perfect, but to make each ride uniquely yours.

Solo Equine

Yessss…buy allll the bridles!

18/01/2025

Grand prix dressage rider and trainer Kim McGrath breaks down why barn culture matters and how it can influence both riders and their horses.

16/01/2025

As I was letting the sun warm the frigid air yesterdaday morning before heading to the farm, I turned on some Tristan Tucker TRT… (I love the way he approaches training, he helps keep me motivated and inspired.) My cat Troubadour thought it was super interesting too!!

Thank you TRTmethod for all you do! I loved watching you work through some exercise for the flying changes on that beautiful mare!!

29/12/2024

Anybody noticing how “out behind” alll the dogs are in the AKC dog show! 🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♀️

27/12/2024

Our NEW bridles are just a whisper away from making a statement on the scene.

Stay tuned for more on these unique styles and fashion-forward pieces!

Explore our current designs at envisionedeq.com.

20/12/2024

Any last-minute gift ideas? Any horse crazy girl would love to have one of these incredible crystal halters or brow bands on her pony!✨

Yesterday was a GREAT day with McGrady Sterling at Maureen Sterling Dressage. Not only are her horses kind, well-behaved, and cooperative, but they are also all stunning creatures. So we said, LET THEM SHINE!

To Maureen and her first-class groom, Meghan, thank you for making yesterday an effortless process. I had so much fun. To the horses, thank you for your participation and for blessing me with your gifts! Christmas definitely came early for me yesterday...

To see any of the styles shown here, go to envisionedeq.com.