Glenridge Farm

08/14/2025

Rider fitness absolutely matters! Consider these suggestions on how to improve your riding while out of the saddle.

08/13/2025

Getting those last summer lessons done before school starts this week!

08/08/2025

Glenridge Johnny Ringo (Llanarth Darcy x AQHA) being his perfect self. Love this half welsh gelding.

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 )

08/07/2025

Wishing Avery and Glenridge Mischievous (Gayfields the Thief x GF Joyous Signal) lots of luck tomorrow in the small over fences at Pony Finals.

08/04/2025

Looking to join in the new pony jumper format? This registered, large, half welsh mare is competitive in both rings. Located in Elgin, OK. Borrow or ⛵️ Message for details.

08/02/2025

It's August....that means the AMERICAN NATIONAL is NEXT MONTH!! We are all set to take your entries, sponsorships, program ads and banners!! Visit our website and watch your emails for full details. Merchandise coming next week! https://wpcsa.org/compete/wpcsa-american-national-show/

08/02/2025

Fall is knocking on the door! 74 degrees on an August Saturday morning. We’ll take it!

07/31/2025

07/30/2025

Just 75 years ago, around 1950, the USA population was about 150 million. Today it’s about 330 million, and that more than doubling has had a profound impact on the humans who are involved with horses.

Far fewer kids live in close proximity to horses, so they don’t become familiar with what horses are actually like. They don’t know how to take care of them, how to handle them, how to “read” horses.

They aren’t allowed to be barn rats, so they don’t become horsemen and horsewomen. These modern kids like horses but they don’t know horses the way their parents, and especially their grandparents knew horses because they took care of horses.

It will only get worse, the split between those who like horses and those who know horses, because the population is growing, suburbs are replacing open countryside, and not many kids will get up in the morning to go feed the pony before school the way so many of us did growing up.

Horse loving kids will get taken to a barn somewhere that still has bits and pieces of open land usually within a 20-45 minute drive from where they live, get their lesson, and get driven home.

It’s not the fault of the kids that they aren’t true horse people. They would prefer the old ways, but the old ways, by and large, are gone.

This scenario is a by product of population growth, and that isn’t anything over which almost anyone has the slightest bit of control.

07/20/2025

We had the best time at yesterday’s Bridle Shower, celebrating Lyla and Lorelie’s first horses. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to make this event a success! Horses even got to join in games with bobbing for apples!