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‘We must always ask ourselves: What’s in it for the horse?’

11/03/2026

Nothing helps strengthen the canter like counter canter. Here, Zalazar felt so balanced and comfortable that to counter canter a 20 meter circle felt effortless. Which also means I’ll be leaving counter canter alone for a while— otherwise a young horse can say, ‘Hey, mom, look! I don’t need to do a flying change!’ I can just keep going on this lead instead!! 😬😄

11/02/2026

Salad Bar gonna tell you all about it

11/01/2026

Has anyone used this? Results?

11/01/2026

Always a pleasure to take Salad Bar to Katherine Pfaff’s lovely farm for a field trip, and on this overcast, chilly, and breezy day, we had a few challenging distractions, but that’s what field trips are all about, right? Good boy, Z! ❤️

10/31/2026

This!!

Does bedding depth affect rest? The answer is yes

When horses are stalled, especially when they are stalled for an injury, we often want to ensure that they will get adequate rest. Many factors affect how much horses lay down to rest and many of those factors are things that are difficult for us to control. Bedding depth is a factor that we can control, however bedding is expensive. It is tjherefore good to evaluate if deeper bedding does in fact encourage horses to lay down.

Researchers Suomala et al published a research study where they evaluated the affect of bedding depth on the rest of horses stabled overnight.

They evaluated two bedding depths - 5cm and 15cm - They used peat bedding so results may be different on shavings which are more commonly used in the US.

A cross over design was used meaning the same horses were evaluated bedded in 5cm and 15cm to control for individual horse variation

Healthy riding horses were used, so results may be different for horses that are injured or on stall rest.

What they found:

Horses actually spent very little time laying down overnight

Increasing the bedding depth almost doubled the amount of time the horses spent laying down - From a mean of 35 min to a mean of 70 min

Increasing bedding depth increased the amount of time horses spent in sternal recumbency but did not affect the amount of time horses spent in lateral recumbency (laying flat out)

While this is only one study, it does provide some evidence that increasing bedding depth does help extend the amount of time a horse lays down and rests.

Here is the link to the article
https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.mul.missouri.edu/science/article/pii/S016815912600287X

10/31/2026

Super job from my Canadian student, Kristi, with her OTTB Flynn during today’s virtual lesson. They have come SO far from Flynn’s former ‘go to’ of bracing and inverting, into contentedly working over his back and happily accepting lateral flexion through his body. It’s really exciting to watch his conformation physically change from week to week. Excited for this pair!

10/31/2026

What a REALLY good job Craig and Stella did this morning at their first competition together! This schooling show had a surprisingly large turnout, and there were quite a lot of distractions for Stella— and when you consider Craig has only owned her for two months, I am beyond proud of how he rode through the tension! This was an eventing dressage test which does not require a halt and salute until the end of the test. The scores have not come in yet, but being told by the judge how nice Stella was really capped off the day 🍾🥕👏 Between Valerie and DJ and Craig and Stella, next year is going to be a blast! Update: Craig and Stella scored a 60.9% for 4th place with both fair and complimentary comments from the judge. Onward and upward!

10/31/2026

What.a.horse. Incredible.

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