COTH Posts

Fear is something I see every day. Not so much in myself (more on that in a sec), but as a teacher of amateur [...]

Elvis is really cool, guys. He’s keen but relatively unemotional. He’s athletic, but he’s also efficient. His default answer is yes. There’s a heck [...]

You’ve got the space in your barn, you’ve saved up a reasonable budget, and your current string is all old enough and civilized enough [...]

Greetings from Wellington. Things are going well. That’s a scary sentence to write, because a) things can go Extremely Not Well at the drop [...]

Monday, 4:30 a.m. I am in Virginia, and I am awake. 4:30 a.m. seems to be my usual wake-up time these days, even on a [...]

I don’t often work with very, very beginner riders. That sounds snobby, and I don’t mean it to; I don’t have lesson horses, and [...]