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06/18/2026

One of the most frustrating aspects of this sport is that overthinking does not work, Piper Klemm writes. This is an instinct-based sport, and there are so many incredible things that it connotes.

On the negative side, it is so easy to think that it’s going to be easy and subsequently get angry when it isn’t.

And then, maybe, be exasperated that you were oversold something—a horse, training program, timeline, goal, etc. There is nothing easy about any aspect of this sport, no matter what background you bring to the table. Most importantly, you cannot fully evolve correct instincts unless you let things go wrong to learn skills.

On the positive side, there is so much opportunity in instinct-based perspectives.

First of all, if you can develop better instincts than most, you can ride more horses than most. The ability to ride more horses than most will lead to lifelong opportunities to ride pretty much anytime and have your dollar go much further when you are horse shopping.

The ability to ride a green or quirky animal will always open up your options. If there is one piece of advice I can give parents who woe or lament their financial situation, it would be to allow your child to learn correct basics and develop the grit to ride maturing or unique animals.

It means that you can get ahead by saddle time and lots of it. It means you can get ahead by purposeful saddle time. We see kids over and over who ride anything and everything and show up and be right in the mix with much more heeled children. It’s still there and there are many breeders who need help starting babies, many rehab barns who need horses tack walked, and many barns who need horses flatted. All time around horses develops instinct and all saddle time develops riding instincts. More is better.

📎 Continue reading this article at https://www.theplaidhorse.com/2024/06/12/overthinking-intuition-and-instincts-as-equestrians/
📸 © Andrew Ryback Photography

06/18/2026

There are a lot of people in the industry today talking about what’s wrong, Parker Worthington writes. The judges are inconsistent. The courses are uninspired. The clients have no feel. The young trainers don’t know anything. The sport is not what it used to be. The whole enterprise, frankly, is in decline.

And the strange thing, and the thing worth examining, is that these are often people who have been in the sport for decades. People who have seen extraordinary things and ridden extraordinary horses and built real careers out of something they once loved with an uncomplicated, hungry passion. Somewhere along the way, that passion curdled. The curiosity dried up. And what moved in to fill the space was a very specific brand of negativity that masquerades as wisdom but is, in reality, something much simpler.

It is the outlook of someone who has stopped learning.

This is not a criticism dressed up as an observation. It is an invitation, because the antidote is not positivity, not the type that is forced, performative, relentlessly upbeat positivity that papers over real problems and pretends everything is fine. The antidote is something more durable and more interesting than that. It is curiosity. Active, genuine, slightly restless curiosity about what else there is to know, what else there is to try, and what the person next to you, especially if they are younger and newer and less certain of everything, might be able to teach you.

The people in this sport who age most gracefully (not in years, but in spirit) are almost universally the ones who never stopped asking questions. The trainer who at sixty is still auditing clinics not because they need the basics explained but because they want to see how someone else approaches a problem. The horsewoman who has won everything worth winning but will still sit ringside and watch a junior eq class with genuine attention, not to critique but to observe. The professional who makes a point of spending real time with the young riders and grooms and working students in their orbit, not to dispense wisdom from on high but to actually listen to what they are experiencing and seeing and feeling.

These people are not naive. They know the sport has problems. They know the economics are hard, and the judging is imperfect, and the pressure on young people is sometimes excessive, and the horses don’t always get the deal they deserve. But they hold all of that alongside something else completely. Alongside genuine enthusiasm for what is working, what is improving, who is emerging, what is possible. They are net contributors to the energy of whatever room they walk into, and everyone in that room can feel it.

📎 Continue reading this article at https://www.theplaidhorse.com/2026/06/15/curiosity-is-the-antidote-to-cynicism/
📸 © Heather N. Photography

06/14/2026

Mila and Quinn absolutely KILLIN it this week!

06/10/2026

100% baby!

06/06/2026

Some one handed gymnastics grid work, honing in on our Equitation ❤️

06/06/2026

Loving this years outdoor course 💕

06/03/2026

One of the oldest events in the country, the Fox River Valley Pony Club Horse Trials, was recently featured in their local Barrington Hills, Illinois, magazine, Quintessential Barrington.

Thank you to magazine owner Lisa Stamos and Fox River Valley Pony Club District Commissioner Deb Nestrud Gallagher for sharing the article!

The FRVPC Horse Trials run from June 20-21.

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12300 115th Street
Lemont, IL
60439

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Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Sunday 8am - 7pm

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