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Autism, Horses and a Hail Mary Trip to Mongolia



Rowan Isaacson is a seven-year-old boy with autism. Until the age of five he had suffered every symptom the illness threw every possible symptom and limitation his way. Rowan's father and mother, Rupert and Kristin, were heartbroken that their son's life was filled with wild tantrums and little meaningful connection. "You're saying goodbye to a bunch of dreams that I think every parent has of a certain type of childhood, and a certain type of relationship with your…

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Added by Kimberly Cox Carneal on April 27, 2009 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Worldwide demand for online horse courses

A naval recruit stationed in Iraq is among students from around the world who have graduated from a US university offering more than a dozen online equine courses.

The degree course from Global Equine Academy in conjunction with Dickinson State University in North Dakota has 14 online horse courses. It currently has more than 200 students from around the world. Many of its graduates have gone on to start their own equine businesses, "and others have gotten equine management jobs and are…

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Added by Sarah at HorseJobs.ca on April 27, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

With SPANA in Syria and on the Streets of London!

Last week we were in Syria – we’ve had a SPANA project there for fifteen years now. Slightly strange place, difficult, tough government, yet the people are some of the nicest in the Middle East. They are, because of the politics, very cut off from the west, so when Diana (our Education Director) gives a Teacher Training Course (we have just produced the standard curriculum text-book on animal welfare and the environment), everyone is aching to hear and try out the latest methods.…



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Added by SPANA on April 27, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

OPERATING MANUALS FOR YOUR BARN - a lesson in communication!

Every industry in the world seems to have operating manuals and S.O.Ps (standard operating procedures). Personally, I come from the corporate hotel world . Having worked in properties such as Loews Coronado Bay Resort and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, we were surrounded by operating manuals and standard procedures - it was a sure fire way to back up our training and communication techniques as well as providing a permanent resource to answer any questions our staff might ever have.

Even as…

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Added by Sarah at HorseJobs.ca on April 26, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Ride Better 1-2-3: Rider Fitness 'Clinic' week 8 IMPROVE YOUR RIDING WHEN YOU'RE NOT RIDING

Hi,

This week we did not have anyone submit specific questions or photos for comment (Please do- if you're reading this blog and like it, and have some questions...go ahead and attach comments regardless of whether you have some pics or not. There are probably 10 other people out there who have the same question. Plus, you get free recommendations without having paid a clinic fee, or personal training fee.)



So, I got thinking about the season- gearing up for shows, and the…

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Added by Heather Sansom at Equifitt.com on April 25, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Related Distances

Related distances seem to cause a lot of problems but for no real reason.



Once you understand what they mean, if you concentrate on your horse’s rhythm and stride regularity you’ll have no problems.



Course builders build jumps that are related to each other in some way — this means that there is a set number of strides between the fences, usually between three and seven. At more advanced levels, the course builder uses half distances, so instead of say five nice…

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Added by Tim Stockdale on April 24, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Program Yourself to Improve Your Riding!

Hi Guys,



Do you want to know how to become a better rider without taking tons more lessons? Do what I did. By putting the same amount (or more!) of effort into mental training as into skill development, I was able to realize my dream of representing the United States in international competition.



Here's how it worked for me. Back in 1980 I picked up a book called, Psycho cybernetics, by Maxwell Maltz. This book literally changed my life. I had always wanted to compete…

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Added by Jane Savoie on April 24, 2009 at 11:00am — 6 Comments

AVOIDING THE DARK SIDE

I wasn’t quite honest last week as I praised Arkle, arguably the greatest steeplechaser of all time…or to be more exact I was being disloyal. Disloyal to my childhood hero Mill House, who was the magnificent winner of the 1963 Cheltenham Gold Cup, and destined to be the King of steeplechasing for many years. So in 1964, when Mill House was hot favourite to win his second Gold Cup I could only watch in shock as Arkle swept into the lead to record the first of his three triumphs in this…

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Added by William Micklem on April 24, 2009 at 9:00am — 7 Comments

Lucy

Lucy is my baby 30 year old retired trail pony . She use to show in the trillium also but is now a fun trail pony . Her show name is Apple Lucy . She is a appleloosa and is all white with brown legs she is also in my pictures . When my 7 year old cousin come down from texas she loves riding her . Lucy has a best old retired and parshly blind best friend shetland pony named sandy .They eat and sleep together in there paddock together . Thats lucy…

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Added by katelyn on April 23, 2009 at 7:30pm — 4 Comments

Pilates For Horse Riders





This is my passion and teaching other riders to ride well is my aim.

My program Applied Posture Riding is becoming an extremely popular program followed by horse riders all over the world.



Horse riding is my passion and my skill. Physiotherapy is my work. I have combined the two and developed an exercise program specifically for horse riders. I guarantee it will improve every horse rider.



Horse…

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Added by Annette Willson on April 23, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Will Rogers Quote offers Key to Success



This Will Rogers quote is one of my favorites.



"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."



How many of us are fortunate enough to be following these simple steps?



To print this quote along with the Friesian painting, go to my blog:…

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Added by Karen Brenner on April 23, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Food For Thought (that leaves a bad taste)

Greetings!



I’m supposed to keep a focus in this blog about how equine body language, psychology and behaviour relate to training issues with horses. However, in all honesty, it’s been a whirlwind week at work and I am way behind schedule on my “to do” list and now I am soon needing to catch a plane from Calgary across the pond for a clinic this weekend in Ireland. So… I thought that since there is so much debate rearing up again about the issue of horse slaughter that I might take…

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Added by Chris Irwin on April 23, 2009 at 9:30am — 16 Comments

WHAT ARE EMPLOYERS LOOKING FOR????

So here's an interesting question that came up at an industry round table discussion recently.

If you could put it in a nutshell...Answer this question; What are employers expecting from equine studies or equine management graduates in the workplace?



What are you thoughts and experiences here?



Is the current equine education system leaving us feeling a bit short changed ?



Do you feel that current graduates possess the required level of horse sense as…

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Added by Sarah at HorseJobs.ca on April 22, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Twist

Twist is my sweet heart lovable medium pony his show name is twist `n` shout and i ride in the trillium and came reserve chapiuon or chapion every show exept for 3 and hoping to do the AA shows this year and make it to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto this year on him.The two videos i have of him are my two first shows i am out of control hahahha. i have lots of pictures on him in my pictures lookfor the cute cheasnut with for white socks pony. The…

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Added by katelyn on April 22, 2009 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

RDA Riding Lesson.

It's Wednesday, and the day I look forward to most in the week. It's the day of my riding lesson.

I love this day, being able to go and ride and get out of the house. I love being able to get on a horse....even if it's just for a few mins, it gives me a buzz. I have always been like this ever since I was little.



Any way before I get side tracked, I had better get on an tell you about my lesson.

I rode Pink, who is genuine, a super little dressage horse and a great horse…

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Added by Cat on April 22, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

My Visit to Kine in Norway.

I'm a little behind on my blog, but I hope I can catch up on it now!

Over the Easter holiday I flew to Norway to visit and stay with Kine, my friend of a couple of years and a Barnmice Blogger.



I had heard and seen so many photos of Pernille that I really wanted to meet her and Kine. So after loads of invites, an opportunity finally arrived for me to go and visit Kine for the first time. Kine and I speak online virtually every day, so to actually talk in person was really…

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Added by Cat on April 22, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

On the Road Again with my Measuring Stick & Rule Book....The Travels of 2 Canadian Hunter Jumper Officals

As the days are getting longer, competitors are moving outside, preparing their horses for the upcoming outdoor show season. The long hours of training will soon be tested in show rings across Canada. And we as Equine Canada officials are not immune.

Evie Frisque is an EC and USEF senior and "R" hunter and jumper judge and course designer. I am Chris Brandt, an EC and USEF senior and "R" course designer. In the last year I was named the Chair of the Jump Canada Course Design Committee,…

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Added by Evie Frisque on April 22, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Horse Kid Scholarship 2009 for Danielle Herb's ADHD Horse Level 1 Master Class 21st - 28th June 200

I've written before in my own personal blog about Danielle Herb, the teen who teaches Natural Horsemanship as an aid to other kids suffering with ADD/ADHD, in the hopes of focusing their attention and getting them off their meds.



I make no claim as to either the efficacy of her methods. It's too soon to tell whether an ADHD/ADD kid can come off their meds by using behavioral methods…

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Added by Kimberly Cox Carneal on April 22, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Eventing thoughts

have put together a few thoughts and added a lot of other peoples thoughts to write down some points of interest on modern eventing safety, thought it might be interesting to and thought provoking.



I was lucky enough to have had a very enjoyable and reasonably successful eventing career when I was a young man. Over the recent years I have also had time to reflect on how things have changed and have given a great deal of thought and deliberation on the human fatalities in our sport…

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Added by Ernest Dillon on April 22, 2009 at 6:00am — 4 Comments

New here !!! -- introduction.

I am new here on Barnmice, and thought I'd introduce myself with a blog post.



My love of horses started when I was very young (probably from the day I was born really) as it tends to run in my family. I never had the chance to have my own horse until I was ten, when my mom bought me my first pony, Teaspoon. Teaspoon was a standardbred/hackney , (what a cross huh?) and was only ever used for driving, but she was sweet enough to let me hop on bareback and ride her all over the…

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Added by taylor anniee on April 21, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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