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Riding and Vaulting Lessons
Horse care is part of the lesson

08/07/2025

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08/07/2025
08/07/2025

Because visual learning just hits different 👀
Finding the right feel in your reins starts with your fingers. Too loose, and you lose connection. Too tight, and you risk tension in the whole body,
yours and your horse’s.

👉 Let’s break it down:
a. ✅ Correct – Fingers softly closed, fingertips touching the palm. You maintain light, consistent contact without gripping.
b. ❌ Incorrect – Fingers open. This weakens the connection and creates an unstable line to the bit.
c. ❌ Incorrect – Fist clenched. Tension travels up the arm, restricting softness in the hand and communication with your horse.

It’s all about that sweet spot: closed enough to hold, soft enough to feel. 🖐️

( Image found off Pinterest )

Muzzle time l told the horses if they take them off its no grass and a small paddock
08/06/2025

Muzzle time l told the horses if they take them off its no grass and a small paddock

08/06/2025

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08/06/2025

Research carried out by the Royal Veterinary College has revealed significant new insights into how strangles is transmitted among horses in the UK.

“Our data highlights the importance of greater awareness and adoption of post-outbreak screening protocols to confirm freedom from infection, rather than owners assuming recovery based on the resolution of clinical signs.”

🔗 Full story: https://www.yourhorse.co.uk/news/new-rvc-study-strangles-transmission/

08/06/2025
08/06/2025

🚨URGENT CALL TO ACTION: STAND AGAINST HORSE ABUSE – AUGUST 21, SHELBYVILLE, TN🚨
Hey you. Yes, you reading this.
If you’ve ever felt sick to your stomach seeing animals suffer...
If you’ve ever wished you could do more than just care…
This is your moment.
On August 21st, we’ll be standing outside the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville, TN—not to cheer, but to demand an end to one of the most cruel and unnecessary forms of animal abuse still happening today.

🐴 The Truth Behind the “Big Lick”
That high-stepping gait they show off in the ring? It’s not natural. It’s not pretty. It’s pain, disguised as performance.
To get that “look,” trainers use a horrific method called soring—burning horses' legs with chemicals, forcing them to walk in pain using heavy stacked shoes and chains. All so judges will give them a ribbon.
Horses are left suffering in silence behind closed doors, while this show continues to parade cruelty as sport.
Enough is enough.

✊ WHY WE NEED YOU
You might be thinking, “What difference will I make just by showing up?”
The truth? All the difference in the world.
Because every single person who stands with us makes our message louder.
Everybody on that sidewalk sends a message that can't be ignored:
“Big Lick is abuse.”
The more of us who stand together, the harder it is for them to pretend this is okay.
The media starts paying attention. Lawmakers feel the pressure.
Even the people attending the show begin to question what they’re supporting.
There’s power in numbers. Every person who shows up adds volume to our truth:
Big Lick is abuse.
And when we speak that truth with enough voices, things start to change.

AUGUST 21 — SHELBYVILLE, TN
We’ll be outside the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration grounds. Peacefully and Passionately.
You don’t need to be an activist. You don’t need experience.
You just need to care and to show up.
Because if we don’t show up for them, who will?

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE
Don’t sit this one out. Don’t wait for someone else to speak up.
We need you there.
The horses need you there.
🗓️ August 21st. Shelbyville.
Come stand with us.
Come shout the truth:©
Big Lick is abuse.
Sign up for the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1048779560563738

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Lessons and training

Barbara has always wanted to be a riding instructor. So she did the best thing: went to England and trained at Crabbet Park Equitation Centre, Sussex. It was the best training she could have got.

The 40th year Reunion at Crabbet Park confirmed this feeling as other former students, clients and staff felt the same way. Crabbet Park was exceptional in its training of students in riding, horsemanship, and theory lessons. She learned excellent basics that have carried ther through to present time ( and what more could a person new to riding ask for?)

After attaining the BHSAI she worked in London at Alderbrooke Stables in East London where she looked after all the horses, rode and taught lessons. This was excellent experience for someone new to working with horses. After returning to Canada, Barbara got a call from Peter Poole at Windfields Farm offering her a job working with the horses. At Windfields Farm Barbara got to work with a variety of Thoroughbreds: yearlings: grooming for the Sales, riding the yearlings (interesting and valuable experience), breeding and foaling the mares. The horses were well bred and some would go on to become famous. Windfields Farm, at the time Barbara worked there, was one of the top breeding farms of Thoroughbreds in the world.

Eventually Barbara came back to Prince George, with her husband, bought the current farm and over the years has improved it with fencing, loafing sheds, paddocks, lunge arenas, outdoor arena and finally the indoor arena. Garth Everall has been great to have come do the cat work to improve drainage, put in a driveway to the barn and in 2016 change the footing in the arena (which the horses love).