COTH Posts
Learning The Language Of Dressage: On The Bit
There’s a lexicon to dressage. Connection, suspension, swing: These are words that have a very specific horsey, and dressage-y, context that we dressage trainers [...]
Momentum (But Look Out For Wheelbarrows)
Jan. 1: It’s 2018! Good riddance 2017, you unmitigated disaster, you complete dumpster fire, you. This is going to be a great year. It’s [...]
Full Steam Ahead To The End Of The Year
Fall has become wintertime, and wintertime is about to become Florida-time. It’s t-minus four days from my own departure, with the horses to follow [...]
Some Friendly Advice On Buying And Selling
I hate the process of buying and selling horses. It’s like speed dating but with a marriage proposal at the end; every horse is [...]
Thanksgiving
Danny, my top horse, had emergency colic surgery at the end of October. To make a long story as short as possible, I learned [...]
Getting A Life
A million years ago when I was young and adorable I attended USDF’s Young Rider Graduate Program, a two-day conference on how to be [...]