3-day Eventing and Dressage training located in the heart of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (winters i
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East West Training Stables, owned by husband and wife team Matt Brown and Cecily Clark, is a full-service barn. Operating out of East West Eventing in Kennett Square, PA; we take a systematic and individualized approach to each horse and rider in order to develop a strong and successful partnership built on clear communication, solid basics, and compassionate horsemanship.
Psst… Your horse isn’t trying to do anything TO you, they’re trying to TELL you things. If they have to shout, that’s your fault, not theirs. Listen to what your horse is trying to tell you with their behavior instead of taking it personally.
Get ready with me, Alderwood, and Riverview Starboy for the Maryland International 3 and 4 star.
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Cecily’s Tips for a good ride - part 2 - Much of my time in my rides is setting my horse up to give me what I want and then waiting for them to find it, vs pushing or forcing it through. This helps create a light and relaxed horse that can carry itself because I won’t use strong aids and I won’t manufacture what I want. I have the power to choose to ride like that. No horse makes me be strong. I can choose to be light or I can choose to be strong, but make no mistake, however much strength or force I ride with, it’s a choice I make, and not something I’m forced in to by the horse. So let go of this notion that you have to ride a strong horse with strength.
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He’s got to accept that
Don’t let him do that
Make him listen
Don’t let him get away with that
We need to change the dialogue there, because all of those statements create conflict.
Instead of saying/thinking:
He’s got to accept that = show him a different way
Don’t let him do that = figure out why he’s confused and go back to help him understand what he’s missing so he can do what you want
Make him listen = figure out why he’s “not listening”/acting out/not behaving and see if you can explain things better to him. Maybe he’s not ready for what you’re asking him to do. Maybe you need to break it down a bit more.
Don’t let him get away with that = help him understand and become comfortable with what you’re asking so that he can do it the way you want.
Any undesired behavior or outcome ultimately comes down to us, how we’ve prepared our horses for what we’re asking of them, how we’re asking, and the conditions surrounding the question we’re asking. Usually, if a horse can’t do what we’re asking it’s because they a) don’t understand, b) aren’t ready physically or mentally, or, c) are distracted/worried/in pain/scared/not strong enough yet
It’s exhausting sometimes trying to figure out why our horses aren’t working with us or doing the things we want them to do. We’ve had the vet out, they get ALL the supplements, we take the lessons and we try so damn hard, it can feel like we’re trying to do everything right and being so patient and methodical, and it can be so frustrating when the horse still doesn’t seem to get it, but even so, it almost always comes back to these 3 things. So when things aren’t going right, take a breath, and go back to these three things to find the way forward:
1. Back to the basics - build, rebuild, reinforce the foundation
2. Show him the way, explain, break it down.
3. Give him the benefit of the doubt: there’s a reason, even if we don’t know what it is (but we probably do know what it is, we just don’t want to accept/acknowledge it)
☁️ Thursday Thoughts ☁️ - Cecily’s tips for having a good ride - Part 1 ✔️ Spend lots of time at the walk getting them walking freely and happily. Long rein, light following contact. Walk the perimeter of the space that you’re riding in each direction on a loose rein. If they want to look at something let them. This is their time to familiarize themselves with their work space and it’s your time to gauge where they’re at mentally and physically for the day. I try to walk around like this until I feel them take a deep breath. Then depending on the level of training of the horse I’ll add in circles, figure 8s, leg yields down the wall, away from the wall, turn my leg yields in to haunches in, add in half pass, all at the walk, and all trying to encourage relaxation and freedom in their movement within the exercises.
✔️Start out in trot in whatever frame and tempo your horse is most comfortable and will help get them prepared for work. If it’s loose rein and little to no contact, that’s fine. Ideally we would like to start most horses work in a stretch, but some horses struggle to stretch and starting out trying to get it in the beginning may stress them out. Go for soft relaxed consistent following connection and even, regular tempo. Get those things and the ability to change the frame will come.
✔️Tempo. I am a believer that a horse cannot relax their back until they reliably, without much correcting from us, will go in a reliable, steady, dependable tempo, walk trot and canter. If a horse is always trying to change their tempo and we’re constantly telling them to slow down or speed up then they can’t relax their backs because they’re always anticipating a change. A regular tempo that a horse carry’s themselves in is a fundamental building block to every ride on every horse. A horse can’t be relaxed, consistent in the contact, reliably balanced, or in self carriage if they aren’t confident in the tempo.
Flowers from the garden 💐
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We all know the saying in horse training “make the thing you want the horse to do easy and the thing you don’t want hard”, which is a philosophy that has guided us in our training for years. But what if we could give the horse a third choice: easy, hard, or enjoyable? What if we spent more time thinking about how we can make their jobs actually enjoyable, not just easy or hard. If we want our horses to become willing, happy partners, not just submissive, then we need to focus more energy on helping them like their work and less time thinking about how to correct bad behavior. Watch Cecily awkwardly talk through this idea while hacking Gadwall around the farm.
Matt said something smart today
☁️ Thursday Thoughts ☁️ ~ Riding in the moment ~ Goal setting with our horses is important, but having your eye on that larger goal during your rides can actually be detrimental to the ride. Thinking about what the horse needs to do at a show next week, next month, or next year can often lead to pushing a horse past what it’s ready for *right now*, in this ride, today. And that can often lead to frustration and confusion. When riding your horse, it’s important to ride in this moment, to focus on the next step you have to take, and how to make that one as good as it can be. Do your planning and dreaming in the barn, focus on what’s in front of you in the ring.
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Peace, man ✌🏼✌🏼
Our goal each ride should be to leave our horse better than we found them.
Not necessarily from a training perspective (in an ideal world this is the case as well), but from a well-being perspective.
Your horse should finish their work at peace with the world.
There’s a saying that a rider should never let the horse “win”. I say winning as a rider is finishing a ride with a content, relaxed and confident horse that’s no worse for the wear from the ride it just had.
Just like don’t go to bed angry. Don’t finish a ride with an anxious horse. Help them find peace before you finish your ride. ✌🏼✌🏼
Spring/Summer 2023 stall cards are done at East West, which one is your favorite?
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Pssst. Hey. Hey you. You’re blocking your horse. Don’t take it too personally, I am too. We all are (except Ingrid Klimke, but I bet even she does sometimes).
I know you’re not trying to. You’re trying to get him loose, or accepting the contact, or through. You’re trying to half halt, or energize, or get him to settle. You’re trying to do the right things, the things we’re told to do, the things that are supposed to get horses going correctly. But unless you’ve achieved the near perfect seat, hand, balance, feel and timing, I guarantee you, you’re blocking your horse.
Every horse will move better the looser they are. Have a big moving horse? He’ll move even better loose. Have a crappy moving horse? The looser he gets the better he will go. But here’s the secret, you don’t get a horse to loosen up by riding it tight or strong or manipulating it around. You get it loose by being soft, elastic, getting out of its way.
Often when I get on other peoples horses the first thing I feel is a restricted walk. How am I going to build looseness out of that?
I know it’s hard, but I promise, the less you do, the more you follow and allow, the less you hold, the less you TRY, the more you’ll get out of the horse.
So now that you know you’re blocking your horse (in multiple different ways at the same time, I know, the truth hurts!), just try focusing on following instead of creating in your next ride. See what happens.
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More four letter words 🫢
Let’s talk a bit more about language that doesn’t belong when describing horses and their behaviors.
He’s being an “as***le”
He’s “taking advantage” of you
“He lives in the lap of luxury and only has to work one hour a day, the least he can do is behave”
We talk about horses and how they behave as if they’re children or co-workers. As if they’re humans capable of manipulation, as if feeding them and taking good care of them means they owe us “good” behavior and should do the jobs that we’ve assigned them whether we’ve actually set them up with proper training and behavioral conditioning to do said job.
We anthropomorphize and ascribe human motivations to animals whose brains are literally not even capable of manipulation.
They have no way to understand the concept of “work”. All they know is self preservation and behavioral conditioning.
The sooner we catch ourselves when we use language like this the better, more effective horse handlers and trainers we will be.
At the end of the day even the best training techniques are less effective if the thinking behind them is flawed. Your horse owes you nothing, no matter how easy you think their job is, no matter how much you spent on hay this month. He’s not being an as***le, he’s being a horse, and what motivates him is different than what motivates us, and it’s our job to get out of our heads and in to theirs so we can learn how to better motivate them to do the jobs that we’re asking them to do.
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Grateful to be home 🥰
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~ Should is a four letter word ~
In horse training the word *should* should be a dirty word. What a horse *should* do is irrelevant to what he *is* doing in this moment, or what he *can* do in this moment.
Remember that training horses to do things is all just icing on the cake, in reality, the only things horses *should* do are eat, drink, p**p, and seek out safety.
When we think a horse *should* be able to do something better, different, more, is when we tend to lose our patience with them. If your horse isn’t doing something you think it *should* be able to do, there’s a reason for it.
The usual culprits are:
He’s confused
He’s in pain
Repetition has taught him to do something different
He’s not strong enough yet
He’s not trained enough yet
He’s nervous or scared
If we get rid of the idea that a horse *should* do anything, and instead take in what the horse IS doing, and contemplate the WHY, then we have a shot at eventually getting the horse to do what we think it *should* be doing.
If he’s in pain, have the vet or the Bodyworker out.
If he’s confused break down what you’re asking in to simpler steps and don’t move on to the next step until your horse is confident with each step.
If he’s nervous or scared, figure out why and take your time helping your horse regain his composure and confidence. I firmly believe that a nervous or scared horse learns nothing when it’s nervous or scared, other than to potentially fear or dislike the work.
So get rid of *should*, it’s harming your horse and it’s actually holding your training back. Be in the moment with your horse because in this moment he’s telling you useful information, but if you’re so stuck on what he *should* be doing, you’re missing what he’s telling you.
And the only possible way we can get our horses to do things that the really *shouldn’t* want to do at all, is if they believe us when we tell them they can.
Photo of Super Socks believing me when I told him there was firm ground to land on somewhere down below.
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Funny how the better I get at understanding horses the fewer “bad” horses I have. When I was younger I had my fair share of heavy, crooked, snarky, rank, “problem” horses. Now that I know more, I don’t seem to have those horses any more. Maybe the “problem” wasn’t the horses… good horses make good riders and good riders make good horses. So the next time you have a horse with a “problem”, ask yourself who actually has the problem?
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We need to calm down, we’re being too loud.
When you ask your horse a question, wait for the answer, don’t talk over him.
Everything you say to your horse, whether it’s an aid or a word you’re using, should be said in a whisper, for only you and your horse to hear. No one else needs to know what you’re saying.
Treat riding and handling your horse like going to lunch with a friend.
Do you want to go out with the friend who arrives late, in a frenzy, and says loud enough for the entire restaurant to hear “OMG tell me how you’re doing, I want to hear all about your life” and then proceeds to talk over you and yammer on about themselves every time they ask you a question?
Or do you want to go out with the friend who honestly wants to hear how you’re doing, and listens to and considers every word you say.
The first friend is exhausting. Their chaotic, loud and overpowering energy makes us either give up trying to get a word in, yell over them, or never want to meet them for lunch again (or all of the above).
The second friend is someone we look forward to seeing again and again.
So be the second friend to your horse. Be calm, quiet, and listen to them. When you ask them a question (i.e. give them an aid), wait to hear what they have to say, don’t talk over them with more or more controlling aids.
If we actually listen to what our horses are telling us, training them becomes a lot easier.
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☁️Thursday Thoughts ☁️Be Curious and do Nothing
A few weeks back we posted about doing nothing when riding a spooking horse. We got a lot of positive responses (and some negative, it is social media after all), but even from people who agreed that horses shouldn’t get in trouble for spooking, there was a large contingent of people that advocated for giving the horse something to do, riding shoulder ins or leg yields to keep their mind off of the thing that they’re spooking at. There is nothing wrong with this approach, and we use it often, but more than being right or wrong, the responses made us think about how hard it is for us to do nothing. To not ask our horses for anything. To ride on a loose rein. To let horses go around with their heads up. To let a horse take in its surroundings without automatically and immediately putting it to work. Sharon White, A horsewoman that I have a great deal of respect for, was giving a student of mine tips when she was trying one of Sharon’s horses. As they made their way through a jumping exercise, Sharon said “be curious”, and I thought that was a brilliant way of saying don’t micromanage. Let the horse show you how it’s going to react, what it’s going to do in the situation. Being curious about what our horses will do when we give them some room to sort problems out for themselves actually tells us a lot about them, and often it creates space for us to happen upon solutions to training problems if we’re being observant while being curious. Is your horse resistant to the contact? What happens when you let it trot and canter around not in the contact? Does it fall one way? Speed up? Slow down? Is it difficult to turn? All of this gives us information about the horse, and has nothing to do with the contact. So maybe working on and addressing some of these things without worrying about where the horses head is may actually help us get their head to go where we want it.
So my advice, my challenge to everyone, is to be curious. Be willing to do nothing, to not micromanage, to allow mistakes to happen. You might just be surprised about what you learn about your horse in these moments of being curious.
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Be Curious and do Nothing
A few weeks back we posted a Thursday Thought about riding a spooking horse. Our advice was to basically do nothing when a horse spooks, just sit there like a lump and not react to the spook itself. To chuckle. We got a lot of positive responses (and some negative, it is social media after all), but even from people who agreed with us that horses shouldn’t get in trouble for spooking, there was still a large contingent of people that advocated for giving the horse something to do, riding shoulder ins or leg yields to keep their mind off of the thing that they’re spooking at. And while in theory there is nothing wrong with this approach, and we often utilize it ourselves if it feels like the spook could turn dangerous, or if the spook is more about being distracted than actually being afraid. But more than being right or wrong, the responses made us think about how hard it is for us to do nothing. To not ask our horses for anything. To ride on a loose rein. To let horses go around with their heads up. To let a horse take in its surroundings without automatically and immediately putting it to work. Sharon White, A horsewoman that I have a great deal of respect for, was giving a student of mine tips when she was trying one of Sharon’s horses. As they made their way through a jumping exercise, Sharon said “be curious”, and I thought that was a brilliant way of saying don’t micromanage. Let the horse show you how it’s going to react, what it’s going to do in the situation. Being curious about what our horses will do when we give them some room to sort problems out for themselves actually tells us a lot about them - their personalities and tendencies, where their training holes are, what muscles they like to use when left to their own devices, and often times it creates the space for us to happen upon solutions to training problems we may be having if we’re being observant when we’re being curious. Is your horse resistant to the contact? What happens when you let it trot and canter around not in the contact? Does it fall one way? Speed up? Slow down? Twist its head? Is it difficult to turn? All of these things give us information about the horse, and have nothing to do with the contact. So maybe working on and addressing some of these things without worrying about where the horses head is may actually help us get their head to go where we want it.
So my advice, my challenge to everyone, is to be curious. Be willing to do nothing, to not micromanage, to allow mistakes to happen. You might just be surprised about what you learn about your horse in these moments of being curious.
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Often when we’re working through a training issue with a horse we want to go right to that issue in our ride. Stiff on the left side? Let me start the ride by trying to supple it on the left side. Makes sense, but what mindset does that put the horse in? It tells them that the ride is going to be hard. Instead of going right to the hard thing, try to start your ride getting your horse in the proper mindset to feel up to a challenge. Get them as happy as possible in your warm up before you ask for anything that might be a challenge for them.
One of my goals in every ride on every horse is to spend more time following, allowing, and sitting quiet than time spend asking the horse for something. Sometimes just asking less and following more can get you the results you’re looking for sooner and with more harmony.
Alderwood is one horse I’ve really had to focus on this with. He’s a bit stiff laterally naturally, and if I start my ride by directly trying to supple him he will get anxious, tense and defensive right away. But if I can follow him for a bit, find his happy place that day, then I can slowly and methodically bring suppling exercises in to the ride that help him loosen up. Ultimately I end up with a far more supple and agreeable horse.
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The only downside to taking our time with horses is the time it takes. And if we don’t have the time to take the time, we shouldn’t be training horses.
I was pulling a mane the other day, and the horse was perfectly happy with me taking small pieces to pull, but if I tried to pull a larger chunk he would get upset. And I said to myself, “ugh if I have to just pull in small bits this is going to take forever and I need to get on my next horse”. And then I realized how harmful that thought was in training and handling horses. Was I really willing to do something that the horse was uncomfortable with just to get through it quicker? And then I thought to myself, huh, the only problem with taking your time in a challenging moment for your horse is the time it takes to take your time. Because in the long run, taking more time to pull that mane, or work through a water jump issue, only takes a long time a few times, and you have a happier horse that you’ve actually built trust with that will help you in future challenging moments.
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Training horses is a little bit like living the serenity prayer - God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
It’s up to us as riders and trainers to truly understand each horse’s personality, what makes them tick, what is distinct about them and how they process the world (fight, flight, spooky, playful, pushy, aggressive, curious, calm, etc).
In order to train horses successfully, we need to understand what we can and can’t change in them, how to play to a their strengths in our training, and how to shift those potentially “negative” personality traits in to working in our and the horse’s favor. Spooky horse? Build a strong bond with them and you have a careful jumper.
We can save ourselves and our horses a lot of grief if we can learn to work with what they’re bringing to the table to bring about change and progress rather than spending day after day trying to change something that ain’t changing. It’s up to us to have the wisdom to know the difference.
(Pictured is my good friend, Super Socks BCF (flaxen). Now retired from upper level competition, he went to 2 Kentucky 5*’s, finishing 6th in 2017, Aachen Nations Cup, 6th place individually and silver medal Nation’s Cup at Boekelo in 2016. He was a horse of a lifetime but he was not easy, and I didn’t really start having success with him until I learned to let go of changing certain things about him. As we liked to say around here, I had to “let go and let flaxen”)
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~ Be a lazy rider ~
And by that I don’t mean be undisciplined in your riding, rather, I mean don’t work or try too hard when you’re riding. If it feels hard, if it makes you sweat, you need to do less. Every horse we get on we try to be “lazy riders” by being light, using soft aids, riding without strength or tension. If a horse is strong, riding it strong will just perpetuate the problem. Our arm muscles shouldn’t ache when we get off. We can’t just tell a horse “hey, don’t be strong today”, but we can tell ourselves to meet heaviness in the horse with lightness. We can tell ourselves to not pull, and if we’re tempted to pull, we need to find another way, or go back to something easier for the horse, where they’re not pulling, and build from there. We can’t always control the horse, but we can control how we approach the horse. We can decide to ride light, or we can decide to ride strong. So be lazy and ride light. Your horse will thank you and so will your body.
Featured in the video are Cecily and Ringwood Galaxy being lazy together 😴
By far the best way to break up ice in water troughs!! Also….probably the best way to accidentally kill someone 😬
Thursday Thoughts
What’s the best way to handle a spook? Do nothing. Sit there like a lump and pretend it never happened. Spooks don’t require discipline. They require a rider who can keep their own heart rate and emotions down and can transmit that relaxed energy through their body to the horse. The worst thing you can do when a horse spooks is react to the spook itself at all in any way. Just sit there. Quietly slow them down or turn them if they spin or bolt off. Pat them and chuckle to yourself when you get them pulled up. One of the worst horses to ride, in my experience, is the horse who’s gotten in trouble for spooking in the past, because the spook is the easy part to deal with, it’s the aftermath caused by “disciplining the horse” that gets tricky and potentially dangerous. Spooking is imbedded in the nature of the horse, biologically speaking it makes them a “good horse” because they are aware of their surroundings. We will never discipline that out of them. But if we build trust and a bond with that horse they will become more willing to trust us when we tell them they don’t need to worry.
Photo is of one of our “spookier” horses but with patience and consistency (and no punishment for spooking!) he’s becoming a rockstar!!!
Holiday stall cards finally got done on this rainy day 🎨. Which one is your favorite?
Looking for Holiday gifts for the horse person in your life? They won’t be mad at you if they find a beautiful handmade, custom bonnet (or 2 or 3 or a gift card for 2 or 3 😈) in their stocking this Christmas 🎄. We love ours from (no, we’re not sponsored by them, we just think they make really quality bonnets and Allie is so easy to work with). She can even digitize your logo and add it to your bonnets! Thanks Allie for the beautiful new noise canceling bonnets!!
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🎵Harmony🎵
If you’re not in harmony with you horse during your ride, stop for a second and ask yourself why. And when you start back up, try to become in harmony with your horse before you try to fix any issues you’re having in your ride. And when you do start to address those issues, try to do it without losing the harmony, or in other words, try to solve training issues without being in opposition of your horse.
Thursday Thoughts:
~ Acceptance ~ when we think about acceptance of the bit, or acceptance of the contact, we should think of it as something that happens in the body and mind of a horse, and what you feel in the mouth is a by-product of that acceptance or non acceptance in the body and mind. When the connection feels bad (and we know we’re not the reason why - spoiler alert, we usually are…) work to create a change in the body and the mind of the horse before you try to create a change in the mouth (hint: this usually is NOT something you do primarily with your hands) 🫶🏼 (pictured is one of our young horses - and one of Cecily’s favorites - Lismakeera Fergus, happily learning the ropes of dressage)
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Excel Star Sugar Daddy 2016 16.3 Irish Sport Horse Gelding by Sligo Candy Boy out of Hermes Touch (Hermes de Reve) “Suge” is a super sweet boy with experience through Novice level Eventing with dressage scores in the mid 20’s (recently 2nd at Flora Lea Novice finishing on his dressage score of 27.8). With tons of scope to his gaits and easy and forgiving to the jumps, he should happily work up the levels. He’s currently schooling 3’6”-3’9” at home which doesn’t touch his scope. He’s been brought along by an amateur/young rider and has been completely genuine along the way. Even though he’s still green, he’s the kind of horse you can learn with and make a mistake on and he won’t hold it against you. His owner has just graduated college and off to the real world and is very, very regrettably selling as she just adores him. She would be open to a paid lease if he stayed in barn as she is extremely sad to say goodbye to this boy. Priced mid five figures Located in Kennett Square, PA Text for more info 707-480-4501
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Life is tragic when it’s raining and you have to go to the bathroom #crymeariver #singalongwithpoppy #poorpoppy #itshardtobearidgeback
Biggie and Bon Bon enjoying some Bro time, Flaxen and Nut being horrified and thinking they should get a room 😂 #brosbeforehoes
Well it was a fitting end to a weird season that saw me get eliminated on flaxen in many new and different and completely dumb ways… he was feeling like a million bucks all weekend and then, after a night of rain and a morning of drizzle, slipped on take off at the first water and then slipped again and put down on take off in to the second water a few jumps later. I called it a day which I’ve never even had to consider doing on Flaxen. But this is the sport, right? So much love for this horse, he walked off the course feeling quite proud of himself and enjoyed every minute til he said no thanks. Will spend the off season regrouping and making sure my good buddy wants to keep doing this.
Super Socks was feeling frisky this morning to jump an awesome double clear round to maintain the lead in the three star 🤩
This time I remembered my test!!!
We did a polo rolling competition featuring our favorite polo wraps from @premierequineengland ! 🤪 (and we had to add Mario Kart music of course) 🏎 The CEO vs Groom vs Working Student We love absolutely everything from PEI and their polo wraps are no exception! We use these wraps daily and the quality is next level. Our staff and clients all prefer Premier Equine’s polos (and boots 😉) to any other brand #PremierEquineInternational #321Start #ItsaMeMario
Biggie taking full advantage of the free butt scratches from Dan 💆🏼♀️ #BigBerry 🍓#Alderwood 🌲#ThanksForTheMassageBro @fleeceworks @voltairedesignusa_can
Gale is the most lovely 7 year old Irish Sport horse that we imported from Ireland as a 3 year old a few years ago. He has the kindest soul and is just wonderful to have in the barn. We bought him as an upper level prospect for Matt but he’s developed kissing spine which will keep him from being an upper level horse. He responds well to back injections. When his back is bothering him he has a pretty decent bronc in him. It doesn’t make sense for us to keep him for Matt anymore, and he is a super useful horse that should be very fun at the lower levels of dressage, jumping or fox hunting, so we would like to find someone that can manage his little things and love him as much as we do. Because of this his price is quite low, and he would be sold with an agreement that his next owners would have to be approved by us and we would have right of first refusal as we don’t want to see him passed around. Contact us for more info 707-480-4501. He’s located in Kennett Square.
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Nice day for a gallop, galaxy wanted to join Super Socks and Big Berry 🤣 #feraldressagehorse #ialmostfelloff #isthishowtoteachpiaffe #ipiaffedinmypants
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This guy pumped water from the creek and put 6 loads of water on the ring after work last night until midnight 🙀. The sun is going down and he’s doing the same tonight. #norestforthewicked #allthehorsesjumpedtoday #timgunnsaysmakeitwork #pleaserainagain #butnotflood
Sunday morning vibes (sound on) #lazysunday
He’s a natural 💫 #lookmanobacklegs
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We did a thing! We have been searching and searching to find the right footing at an affordable price and when we finally came across TruTex Footing, we were sold. This footing is amazing and the price point is even better. Matt could not wait to start spreading it today! Stay tuned to learn more about this amazing footing as we test it out in our own ring. It is like Christmas in October.
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