If you want to cry a little inside, use the handy dandy horse calculator to figure out your approximate yearly spending on your equine friends.

Mine totalled to just under $14,000 for one.

Lesson of the Day: A horse costs however much money you have. Any unknown costs will equal the exact amount of money in your checking account on any given day!

You know those rides that start off really, really, really good? And you think to yourself "damn, I'm brilliant. I should get off now, but I just want to do this last thing ( Read more... )

Enrique was a nut bar yesterday. An absolute, total freak of nature. In two years of owning him, I have never had such a wild, crazy ride ( Read more... )

Did any of you just break into the Titanic theme song ( Read more... )

Well, to be fair to myself, the sitting trot IS getting better. It's not glorious by any stretch of the imagination. It's not even decent, but its coming. I have, however, realized two things. Firstly, very few people actually have a GOOD sitting trot. But because the majority of female riders are thin, you don't notice the bounce as much as you do ( Read more... )

Ok; so show is coming up in 5 weeks ( Read more... )

Bhuaha, I just LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas. My decorations are already coming out, my Christmas CDs are being burnt. Love it ( Read more... )

Enrique is absolutely certain of that now. Where before there were some doubts in his mind, there's none now. Gremlins in the arena. Evil, ugly gremlins who long to destroy the minds of poor, innocent Trakehners ( Read more... )

So I got the opportunity to take a clinic with Susanne Dutt-Roth which I'm considering. But then I found out the cost. $170 per lesson. She's a hell of a clinician - really knowledgeable and conveys her thoughts well, but to my way of thinking, Rico and I are still really beginner. I'm thinking I would do better applying that $350 for the weekend ( Read more... )

I hate when it gets cold. And here we DO get really cold, generally around -20C to -30C for a good 5-6 months of the year ( Read more... )