So what's your excuse?  Oh, you're not Reiner Klimke ?  Psssshhh, look, all he did was make an adjustment in one second and his hors...

I've been working with Amber and Solo, teaching her how to dig out his trot from beneath the turtle shuffle veneer.  In the process, I h...

OMG OMG OMG!  I CAN POST THE TROT! Whoever thought such news would be cause for excitement?  But I could barely contain my glee Wednesday ...

This story is a little overdue, but no less worth telling.  Because it is a perfect illustration of the line of horsemanship those of us one...

I am proud to introduce you to Amber, who humoured me and has wr itten a guest blog for us today.  She contacted me th rough email about m...

So many things going, trying to cram every possible moment in before I am hobbled.... Batman (Dr. Bob -- he and Robin broke up, so now we ...

Lightning snapped as the stormfront wind brushed, refreshingly cool, across both our bodies.  Encore & I, both tired of sweating, welcom...

Yes, I am lax in my posting.  Field season pulls me away 2-3 days per week and I've been gone every weekend.  I never want to drive agai...

I vote for that instead. The Horses:    Encore radiographed clean on Friday * HUUUUUGE sigh of relief * and was pronounced "He Who...

I was directed by an acquaintence to a video that is part of the Retired Racehorse Training Challenge that I posted about here .  By the wa...

I am thinking hard about transitions right now.  They are the key to so many things and can also reveal all of your weaknesses in one step. ...

Multi-day meetings about mussel ecology and endangered species planning keep me away from my equine musings.  Well, at least from writing ab...

With three horses to ride (our BFF, lifeshighway, is out for 5 months following rotator cuff surgery, so I am teaching Pete the coarser poin...

Sadly, I shall be away from blogland for the rest of the week, as far as I know.  This renders me unable to share my dorkiness genius and i...

Encore has discovered his jump.  His big, powerful, sit-on-your-butt-and-leap jump.  Holy mother of cod, I had a lot more horse under me tha...

If I ride him just right, he will get it. This is the thought that runs over and over through my head as I worked with Encore last night. ...

Encore is bored with my circles and I need to come up with new ingeniuos exercises for his quick little mind.  So he got last night off and ...

Thank you so much to all of you who have participated thus far in the 2011 Fix Solo For Christmas Sale!  I have a bunch of things stacked up...

I often have to remind myself these days of this post I wrote almost two years ago .  There is no "1, 2, 3, success!" in horse tra...

The sound of winter blowing in is the clink of blanket buckles against a stall front and the rustle of dead leaves under hooves. It's a...