Carmen Longuski

10/27/2025

Jubilee free longing.

10/27/2025

Jubilee is a very soft flexible mover. Wants to please. Registered Canadian Warmblood this filly can go any direction. Looking for her person. She longes, Ties, Trailers, Baths, Clips! Good to be handled and Farrier ready to start her under saddle training. Mid Michigan Location. Reasonably Priced. PM for more info.

10/18/2025

Jubilee 2.5 yr old Cleveland Bay Sport Horse Mare.
Registered Canadian Warmblood. This filly is standing 15.3 and will keep growing to approximately 16 to 16.1 hands. She is intelligent and pretty. Looking for her new person.
Cleveland Bay's are Endangered Species. Approx 400 purebreds in the world. They cross well on TB/ WB type horses. They are excellent Jumpers, Eventers, Dressage, and Driving horses. One of England's oldest heritage breeds the Cleveland Bay is known for its temperament. Jubee is trained to Tie, Trailer, Clip, Bath, and Longe.
Six Five Zero Zero to a great home.
Price will increase with training. This filly will break out easy.
oh and jump the manure pile 🐎

02/28/2025

Horsemanship Tune-up for your Discipline with Susan Moffit.

Clinic held at Let's Ride Farm
9251 Methner Rd Coleman Mi

April 13th, 2025
9:30 am - 1:30 pm

Hosted by Carmen Longuski

If you ride Western, English, Jumping, Ranch or Dressage Sue can help you polish your Skills with her wealth of knowledge. Everyone Welcome
Cost 110.00 plus 25.00 Barn Fee

Message Carmen Longuski to Register by April 7th 2025

01/12/2025

Spent some time in the barn this morning brushing Miss Jubee and putting on a bigger winter blanket size 75" for my long yearling. She is Cleveland Bay( endangered ) crossed with Canadian warmblood. She is half sister to my 4 .5 year old Jori.
She is registered Canadian Warmblood. She will be introduced to lunge line, cavaletti poles, the saddle and bridle and long lining this summer and fall. plus a few horse shows to investigate and hang out.

12/11/2024

Ride like this not like that....
This correct riding will put you in the Ribbons and keep your horse sound and balanced in his ability to carry you and himself. Simply Explained. Love it.

11/12/2024

Happy Fall,
Peanut, 16 yr old mini mare. 38-39"
Healthy and chubby.
Was an Amish Horse originally. Was told she rides and drives. Would need refresher. I have used her as a buddy to my weanling/yearling to show her horse behavior.
Make someone's Holidays! Priced at 375.00. Location Lake/Farewell Mi
message for more info.
SOLD!

10/06/2024

This is a common problem, riding with your arms straight. Elbows back I always say. Check out the video to see the improvement when the rider and horse start communicating.

09/23/2024

This exercise is really the beginning of all your training. When your horse will seek the bit on the way down and stay engaged with his hind on the way back up you are well on your way to contact. A horse that rides in your finger tips, and steps deeply underneath his belly is starting collection. Ride on!

Lengthening to the bit ♾️ with our young star Viva la Vida who is doing so well under the saddle! What an amazing mount this smart mare is turning into! ✨💫🤎 but let’s take a deeper dive:

Lengthening 〰️
• Lengthening involves the relaxation and elongation of muscles, often as part of a natural, fluid movement. It occurs when the horse extends its body without tension, creating a longer posture without pulling the muscles actively.
• This is a passive process, where the muscle fibers relax, allowing for a more extended range of motion. For instance, when a horse lowers its neck and extends its body in a relaxed, forward-downward stretch, the muscles are gently lengthening without resistance. This process improves flexibility, alignment, and balance, promoting elasticity and suppleness.
• Lengthening encourages the horse to engage its body in a relaxed manner, allowing the horse to move more freely and with less restriction.

Stretching 🌊
• Stretching typically involves the active pulling or elongation of muscles, where tension is applied to the muscle fibers to increase their length. This can be either active or passive, but the key element is the pulling force exerted on the muscles to stretch them.
• In stretching, the horse may experience a feeling of tension in the muscles, as the goal is to extend the muscle fibers to their maximum length. This kind of stretching usually focuses on improving flexibility and range of motion by increasing tension within the muscles or tendons.
• For example, when a rider asks the horse to stretch its stride or lengthen its frame under saddle, the muscles stretch under slight resistance or pull, enhancing flexibility but with more active engagement.

🔑 Key Difference:
Lengthening involves relaxation and elongation of the muscles without tension or force, promoting fluid, extended movement, while stretching involves pull to the muscles to extend their length under resistance occurring in the muscles that work in opposite direction.

In the typical dressage training we aim for the lengthening, not stretching, however stretching is the word thoically used to describe the phenomenon of the horse lengthening to the bit.