SureFire Horsemanship, LLC

11/21/2025

This hypothetical person anyway. I wish them all success, but don’t let someone else steal yours

11/20/2025

REMINDER NO LESSONS NOVEMBER 26-NOVEMBER 30th. Makeups THIS sunday the 23rd.
We have 2 spots in Giddyup Gang at 1pm. and a spot for a rider at 2pm and 3:15pm.

4:30pm also has space for two riders.

11/20/2025

Hey y’all!
I told you I’m terrible at admin. Truly autistic, overwhelmed daily by communication that if it isn’t my hyperfocus inside the ring- I just can’t keep up.

Cassie is slowly but surely taking over admin duties (slowly due to my time available to help her)
She will have my business phone soon.
You can reach her at 614-504-3236 for the time being which is her business number.
Anything NOT NEEDING me, not personal, not an emergency can go to her and she’ll filter what needs to get to me.

We’ll make sure the info gets to everyone but I’m sharing here first, my personal number will be getting phased out
Again the number you can call/text for scheduling or general business information is

Cassie M (admin) 614-504-3236

Enjoy an old photo. He did load well afterwards circa 2021?

11/20/2025

My horse actually did almost die from the neuro form. He’s been through so much, and with our baby? Even the husband has been told he cannot stop here between arms or come here at the end of the day.
I ask all others NOT come here after handling horses, not even in the same clothes or boots for the next 2 days after. Sanitize. I remember balling while working at McDonald’s thinking I was gonna lose my boy, but not being able to call off because I knew there would be bills. A great vet saved him at an extremely reduced cost for me as a teen. I will not F around and find out with this. It is everywhere all the sudden

EHV should have killed my horse in 2023. It wasn’t even the neurologic strain. He went recumbent and dropped 300 pounds in two weeks from EHV-2 and EHV-5. I still consider it divine intervention that he, somehow, survived.

Nothing compares to watching your own horse look more dead than alive. His second day in the hospital (shown in that photo), I told the vet if he wasn't dramatically better by morning, I would let him rest. That’s how close we came.

So let me make this as blunt as possible: If you are in an affected area and still hauling out…still competing…still hosting shows as if nothing is happening…

You are not just risking your horse.

You are risking every horse you come into contact with: your friend’s retired heart horse, your daughter’s pony, the teenager’s first horse she spent years saving for, the barn’s sweetest old gelding, someone’s emotional support animal, someone’s once-in-a-lifetime partner.

All of them.

You are choosing money over the very real possibility of watching any of those horses collapse, suffer, and fight for their life.

If you’re willing to take that risk, with a strain seemingly deadlier and more contagious than ever before... Your choice to “just go to one show” will be the reason someone else has to bury their best friend.

11/20/2025

Not horse related
Who is going to Sonic Temple fest?
Any ya’lltarnative homies? 😅🤘🎸

11/19/2025

Just watching my horses play Jack ass in the mud like I’m not about to just pay off another vet bill 🤦‍♀️

11/19/2025

Hay bags. Yes they suck but we love them. And they’ve got some really easy to fill ones on the market now.
Why I won’t ever NOT use hay bags again. Yes they do save money

11/18/2025

In this photo we have two riders who look very different.

These are screen shots taken a few seconds apart as these riders cantered past in the first flight of a foxhunt.

On the left we have Rider “A” who looks “better” in terms of traditional and classical equitation.

On the right we have Rider “B” who is in a very stable deep seat.

Many will argue that one rider is “better” than the other.

But this is simply not true. These riders are just in different phases of their learning journey.

Comparing them is simply illogical.

And boy, in the horse world do we love comparing riders!

If you are interested in the full description read on below 🙂

Rider “A” details :
Riding in the Stable Riding system over a decade.
Foxhunting over a decade.
Rides multiple horses several days a week of all breeds and types.
Comfortable at a walk/trot/canter with and without stirrups in a variety of saddles.
Comfortable at a gallop.
Comfortable walk/trot/canter/jump ba****ck.
Jumping over 2’9”.
In the photo they are riding a horse they have ridden 5 to 6 days a week for over a year.

Rider “B” details :
Riding in the Stable Riding system for almost 6 years.
Foxhunting less than 8 times.
Rides multiple horses several days a week of all breeds and types.
Comfortable at a walk/trot/canter with and without stirrups in a variety of saddles.
Comfortable at a gallop.
Comfortable walk/trot/ ba****ck.
Recently became comfortable cantering ba****ck.
Recently started jumping over 2 feet.
In the photo they are riding a horse they have only ridden a handful of times and never at an outdoor event, only in the arena prior to this day.

Now, should we expect, demand and require that Rider “B” looks like Rider “A”?

Should we require it right now?

Or can we give them 6 more years of high level instruction and practice?

Also : I didn’t include the riders ages, heights, body proportions or injury histories.

Should we require them same level of performance between them regardless of their body types or body histories?

See, here at Stable Riding I don’t teach riders to “look like” rider “A”.

I teach them to ride - and eventually if given time, practice and the body type, they will evolve to that position naturally.

I believe that rider “B” will one day look the same as rider “A” 😎

But if not. That’s ok too!

Not all riders will ascend to the highest level of technical skill…while others will.

Regardless of that fact ALL RIDERS deserve kind, correct, skill instruction.

Asking all riders to look like Rider “A” and asking them to do it without the base skills and time to practice is illogical and cruel.

I don’t want my riders to ride like anyone but themselves!

I tell all my riders, I want to teach you…to ride like you 👏