Dancing Gaits Farm LLC

05/24/2025

Yesterday’s ride felt absolutely phenomenal! 🎠
We were rockin’ it! 🤩
I asked him for full pirouettes for the first time since last fall. They felt pretty fantastic!
He felt super light, uphill and connected. We are coming out way stronger than we did last year! It feels so good to finally be able to put a few movements together after the long winter.
Prophet is a superstar! 🌟It was just a really great “feel good” ride! ☺️

05/19/2025

Two years already. It’s been wild!
All of it! 🙏🥰 …life
I remember waking up the next morning and it felt weird. But it also felt like I was home.

03/24/2025

With this big spring snowfall we got, I thought it would be so much fun to ride outside in the snow! It’s been probably 20 years since I’ve ridden in snow like this! I envisioned high stepping passage and expressive flying lead changes! 🎠
It was an adventure. This was literally the entire ride. It was all of five minutes of walking in three big circles, a spook, 10 trot steps and I thought it would be fun to try piaffe in the snow.
Prophet said, “how about YOU piaffe in this snow?!” 😂
I guess 10” of fresh, heavy, wet snow on top of the already existing solid foot underneath was not the most conducive for riding. I was thinking about his 21 year old stifles and decided to keep it short once we were out there.
Well, I didn’t fall off, even though it would have been a soft landing, and he didn’t lose a shoe!
It was a successful snowy ride after all! ❄️🛷

02/21/2025

To give an idea of how deep the snow is here in The Yoop…keep in mind, Prophet is 16.3 hands tall! That’s a lot of snow! ❄️
Beautiful warm day today! It got up to 30°!

02/11/2025

Happy 21st Birthday Prophet! 🥳
I made a video to celebrate him and our accomplishments together over the last several years. It is a long video but it’s very nostalgic for me. It is the journey chasing my dream. 🦄
In the video you will see several moments from hours of schooling and shows but there are also many special moments just showing Prophet’s fun and spunky personality. 🎠
I managed to get 180 minutes of footage down to under 10!
I hope you all enjoy!

12/12/2024

08/05/2024

Here are the highlights from our Grand Prix ride on Saturday. 59.783%
I’m super pleased with our piaffe even though it’s a little uneven and traveling but it’s a huge improvement from the past where he used to brace badly and/or rear. I’ll take the traveling any day!
When we can normally do our 2 tempis, canter zigzag and pirouettes well with our eyes closed, we had some issues there. I think if we clean those up next time, we’ll have our score!
The 1’s are about what I expected since we don’t currently have 15 1 tempis.
We had problems with late changes throughout the test but he was tired, being the last day of the show. I was having trouble at the end with him wanting to drop on the forehand. It was much hotter at the show than what we’re used to at home.
Overall, I’m so pleased with how this test went especially with how the first two days of the show were.
Prophet is a superstar in my mind for everything he’s gone through! He’s just an absolute unicorn and I’m so proud of him! 🦄🥹

08/05/2024

I am so beyond proud of this horse (and myself) right now! Prophet and I just did our first show in nearly two years and we received a 59.783% on our Grand Prix test!
But not only that, it’s been nearly two years since we’ve even ridden in a dressage arena…aaaand, I haven’t had a coach in nearly two years! I did this one on my own!
The first two days of the show were a little rough and we made many bad mistakes earning as low as 50% but today we made a huge comeback and earned 59.783%. It’s not the score we need for the gold medal, but hey, it’s SO close!
We did make a few mistakes today that I know we can do better, but being the last day of the show, I know Prophet was tired. If we clean it up, we will for sure have our score. I know we can do this!
Prophet was an absolute superstar for everything he has gone through in the last couple years and then traveling to this show. I just couldn’t be more proud of the old man! 🦄🦄🦄

07/23/2024

Kahvi is doing fantastic at her baby horse job! She doesn’t get worked every day and maybe for about 15-20 minutes tops. Her job right now is very easy and I never want her to feel like it’s too hard. The rides are simple and to the point. 🎠She’s doing great at staying in front of my leg and now she’s learning to reach into the bridle! She’s doing wonderful! She’d like to drop behind the vertical but that will go away. Everything with get more consistent and connected. I’m so proud of her! 🥰

07/23/2024

I’m so excited! I got three 1 tempis on Prophet today! It’s really the first I’ve gotten three in a row in over a year! I’m absolutely thrilled! 🥳And we got all our 2’s! We must have done a million simple changes today along with so many halt and halt rein back transitions. It was a fantastic ride! It felt great! He had energy and we were on fire! 🔥 We’re still working on getting more cadence in the lateral work and improving our transitions in and out of piaffe. But we’re getting stronger! 💪🏼🎠 He tries so hard! 🦄I’m also excited to have some poles down and measure out a dressage arena.

06/29/2024

Yesterday’s ride was in the indoor since it was raining.
This video is a bit longer. I did fewer edits and cuts.
I always start out every ride with stretch trot circles and serpentines. ⭕️
I’m working on having more cadence in the trot during shoulder in and half pass. The old man is so talented and he tries so hard! I think we’re coming back stronger than before! 🔥
We also worked on keeping the rhythm and balance in transitions within the gait. He’d like to run coming out of the super collected moments. I also try to remember to keep him supple throughout the ride.
We managed to do some 3 tempis going around the arena with a few mistakes and we almost got four 2’s on a circle. All of which is super difficult in the small arena!
I’m so glad he’s starting to feel better! Gotta take care of my dance partner! 💃🕺❤️

06/28/2024

Oops! This was kind of annoying to realize just after I got on because I had to walk back through the rain to get my helmet. I briefly contemplated just riding without it but that wouldn’t be setting a great example for something I believe strongly about. Always wear a helmet while riding! 🧠 ⛑️