All Blog Posts Tagged 'shows' (4)

First Sleep Away Show Ever: Final Day and Thanks, Peter Leone!

 

Wow, if you'd told me on Day One that I'd ever be ready to go home, I'd have laughed at you.  Be that as it may, Day Five of HITS-on-the-Hot-As-Hades-Hudson IV saw me ready to head south on I-87.  However, before I did there was that small matter of Short Stirrup Hunter classes we needed to attend to. 



Thankfully they Horse Show gods decided to move the classes up from early afternoon to just before 11.  In my …

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Added by Me & My Big Girl on July 25, 2011 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Show Woes: Dealing With Fear

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Added by Me & My Big Girl on June 21, 2011 at 9:37am — 3 Comments

Equestrian Cross-Training. Taken from WCAX TV

Equestrian Cross-Training



Some young equestrians hit the riding ring Sunday morning for a rare opportunity with an Olympic-caliber rider, who also happens to be a Vermont native. But they weren't learning about the technicalities of jumping in the often tense-filled horse ring, they were learning about moving to the music.



It is crunch time for Geoffrey Hesslink and… Continue

Added by Ruth Hogan Poulsen on September 7, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Trying to Fit a Square Peg into a Round Hole (Or trying to make your horse do something it hates)

Do you know that saying “It is like trying to fit a square peg in to a round hole?” Well sometimes we horse owners do that to our horses. We try to force our horse to do something that it doesn’t like to do. Let me give you an example.



I have been showing Valerie for about two years now in Class A Arab horse shows. All the classes I enter in are strictly western–western pleasure, trail, and… Continue

Added by Adrienne Tange on August 17, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

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