Florida 2019 is coming to a close, and it’s been one amazing winter season, with big goals met, big progress made, and lots of great memories and ribbons logged! And we’re even more excited to come home and get the summer season started off right with some new faces around the farm. Read all about it […]
We’re looking for an ambitious and energetic team player to join us April 1. Our working student interns groom, tack, clean, learn, ride, show and get PAID and HOUSED to do it all! Working student interns grow into our assistant trainers, or leave us for more advanced positions both within and outside of the horse […]
I entered Elvis in our first show together. He’s been training terrific, feeling really good in his body, and, as always, fantastic in his brain. Of course, three days before the show it occurred to me that I’d never attempted a canter-halt transition. I’d done maybe two extended trots in my entire time with Elvis, […]
I love coming to the Wellington area every winter, but there are some things about living here, and living in Florida in general, that are … unique. We’ve made a little game of some of the wackier things we’ve seen. First one to 1,000 points wins! One point for each sighting of the following creatures: […]
Camp, shows, Florida… oh yeah, and Isabell Freaking Werth! Read all about our latest adventures, including Lauren’s ride in the AGDF Masterclass with Olympic Gold Medalist and living legend Isabell Werth in our February e-newsletter. Click to sign up to receive our monthly newsletter directly in your inbox! Please like and share
As someone who both rides in and teaches clinics, I know there are two kinds: the kind where it’s riding lessons, sessions between a coach and a student to benefit the rider; and the kind where it’s theater, a riding lesson for the rider as well as a demonstration for a crowd. And I’ve got […]
To make a long story as short as possible, I’ve been experiencing some pain in my low back, at an increasing interval and increasing severity, since April. I’m pretty sure I know the root cause, and I’m finally getting that taken care of, but I didn’t do it in time, because over the weekend the […]
I thoroughly enjoyed Sarah Lorenz’s recent piece for COTH, “We Are All Individuals.” As someone who brings a lot of young horses up the levels of dressage I agree wholeheartedly that there’s no timetable, that they come along at whatever rate they come along, and that, as trainers and as stewards of their lives, we […]
We have arrived safely in Florida, and even more importantly, we have arrived in 2019, and I can’t even begin to tell you all how glad I am of both. While January 1 may be just another date on the calendar, with no magical properties of any kind, I’ve decided that 2018 was where all […]
I hate December. It’s cold; it’s dark, and it’s time spent twiddling my thumbs waiting to get to Florida. When I’ve had serious upper-level competition horses, December is a bit of let-down time. I take the last two weeks of November and the first few weeks of December to just fluff around, and then the […]
