It’s official, Baker's is starting a weekly blog to update all equestrians on the latest and greatest news from one of your favourite equestrian suppliers. We will keep you informed on our new inventory, equestrian news, convention appearances and more.  We are expanding our social media platform to make Bakers news more accessible and convenient for you. 

We are pleased to inform you that we have an upcoming clinic with the renowned Peter Menet on July 15th, 2012 in Uxbridge,…

The day Henrietta came to visit

Mary-Joe Figueira

Some years back, I boarded at a lovely facility in Erin just outside Hillsburg. Erin has to have one of the prettiest country sides I have ever seen. The facility was quite lovely, large arena, huge stalls and great paddocks for turn out. It even had its own "diet paddock" which I found quite interesting. Never heard it quite like that. I don't know why it was classified as such.…

  Check-out Cathy Rivers newest blog post! Often over-looked horsemanship lesson! Great info!

  Cathy Rivers, www.bighorsedreams.com

June 19th 2012

At some point in your horse ownership life there will come a time when you won’t be able to make it home to feed the horses. Are you prepared? What if you can’t do feeding and chores for 2 weeks or more? Are you prepared? What if you are at the Emergency Room and…

Bobby is a Pony

After not being to get down off of Merlin without help I woke up last Sunday REALLY reluctant to ride him.  I couldn’t get Shannon on the phone to tell her I had to switch to someone shorter for the summer, so I took two bridles and three girths out to the farm.  Luckily I got there before Shannon had caught Merlin and she cheerfully agreed to let me ride Bobby, her British Riding Pony, who had been donated to her program because he had had…

   Love! that Cathy Rivers is now offering that following: 

Horses know exactly who you are. That’s a fact. So wouldn’t it be nice to know exactly who they are? Especially if you’re equestrian genre is competitive dressage? How about resolving – once and for all – the frustrating challenges in your horse’s training, as well as in your own, that’s keeping you both from the winner’s marks.

Cathy Rivers, holistic horse therapist, accomplished dressage…

     It's not February, but we are halfway through the year. Wanted to share my re-read of this blog by Cathy Rivers'....

     good to touch base on with our goals!

     Re-Post

     by Cathy Rivers

    http://www.bighorsedreams.com or check out her other blogs @ http://www.bighorsedreams.com/blog/

   3 LESSONS YOUR HORSE TEACHES YOU…

http://gawker.com/5917976/stephen-colberts-new-favorite-athlete-is-mitt-romneys-dressage-horse

My life stinks, right now.  I won’t go into the details—those who know me well already know.  But due to great tragedy, my riding has been curtailed.  Instead of ridiing 5 days a week—I went 5 days without riding.  I didn’t even get to see my boys.  My sister and boyfriend were able to pick up the slack—keeping the stalls cleaned, turnout and leading Cruiser for me.  I am grateful for their help.

Here is what I learned.  Cruise doesn’t mind being in semi retirement.  He…

I had some excitement riding this week.

Wednesday stuff was a bit disorganized at the barn, Debbie had gotten stuck in traffic and would be a few minutes late.  One of her teenage students kindly got, groomed and tacked up Mick for me, and this wonderful girl came out to the ring with me, helped me mount and hung around watching me until Debbie got there.  Mick was pretty stiff, so I just walked around for the first 15 minutes, some circles, some one or two loop…

As horsewomen and horsemen, we should consider the following and their application to our equine communication skills.

From the "Apocalypse of Spirit"



"The sacrifice of listening creates the sacrifice of humility that radiates the greatness from one's Spirit Within."



"Spirit does not need the mind to exist; the mind cannot exist without the Spirit.   Spirit encompasses life, while the…

     I guess I'll start with a little history on yours truly. My name is Jenni. I am a 28 year old horse nut. Growing up no one else in my family was into horses, so I'm not really sure where I got the fascination, but my parents were good sports about it and signed me up for lessons around the time I entered middle school. My Mom is terrified of horses, but attended many of my lessons and all of my shows. My dad saw the opportunity to stay connected with his teenage daughter through the…

I love this post by SmartPak. How true it is that everything is about attitude! I would like to add acouple of "DOs"

1. Be grateful to your body, your mind and your horse that you are able to do what you love - and take good care of them all.

2. Remember that every time you mount a horse, you have a fresh start. A chance to do your best and do things a little bit better than the last ride.

and...

3. If your last ride wasn't so great, forgive yourself  - and your…

International Helmet Awareness Day is coming up and I have been thinking about my own experiences with (and without) a helmet.

I've been riding for well over 40 years and I can't remember how many times I've fallen off a horse. Most of the time, I was wearing a helmet, but I remember falling twice without one and thinking that it was just dumb luck that I wasn't killed.

 I'm cautious by nature and started wearing a helmet long years ago, when they were very…

Many Adena Springs horses have gone off to start their new careers in the equestrian world. Here are just a few:

“Blue Heron (Weldon) is PHENOMENAL! I love him tremendously. We had a great first season eventing together and as you can see, he LOVES to jump (especially cross country). Next year we plan on upgrading to pre-training!”…

    Gypsy Eyes is a sound eleven year old chestnut TB mare standing approx 16.1hh. Gypsy was found discarded by her previous owner after having a couple of foals and rescued by Adena Springs Retirement Program this past fall (she is no longer suitable for breeding). She her rescue Gypsy has been in training with the program and has been going under tack walk, trot and canter. She is a kind, friendly and loving mare who deserves a…

I just posted one of my own original songs on this site, because it features the amazing sound of a real life horse snort, from one of my best horse friends ever... who always had such a nice canter stride snort...

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missing him, i am glad to have new access to a new kind of sweet young horse breath.

AND i hope you will please have a listen to the song! i'd love to hear what you think...