CL Love Equine Services

CL Love Equine Services CL Love Equine Services LLC is owned and operated by Cindy Love, offering horse training and lessons.

Haven Ridge Equestrian Center has sold it's facility and will be operating only as CL Love Equine Services LLC. I will be concentrating on a few training horses and will travel for lessons within the Eastern OH/Western PA area. My background is very eclectic, including dressage, natural horsemanship, hunter jumper, trail, cattle work, and barrel racing, with an emphasis on relationship and biomechanics to improve overall performance and enjoyment of both horse and rider.

Ran across this old picture of one of my past students running my OTTB mare that she leased before getting her own horse...
06/26/2026

Ran across this old picture of one of my past students running my OTTB mare that she leased before getting her own horse, such a talented team. This is the first horse I taught to run barrels, she is 24 and has provided me with 2 wonderful foals that are 11 and 4 now. Corenna Broussard

06/25/2026

There is a certain demeanor that I’m looking for to tell me if a horse is ok with the step we’re on and ready to move on to the next step. It is hard to explain or show. I’m not looking for submission or just acceptance, I’m looking for something that tells me that they are truly ok with, and even interested in, what we’re doing. I’m sure there is a person somewhere that can take what I’m looking for and put it into words, when I run across that person I will share them with you. After some rope pressure work, which I’ll try to get on video, I move to a surcingle before the saddle. This one has a crupper, so there was some preliminary work to make sure he was ok with that, but being ok with a crupper can be super useful for a working horse that might end up with a rope under its tail at some point.

06/22/2026

A lot of people ask what ground training to do with youngsters before saddle work. The last horse I started, which is potentially my last personal horse, though if I’m riding into my 90s I might need one more, has been really easy because I’ve had him from day 1. When I raise one, I don’t have to do a whole lot of actual training sessions, as every interaction is a training opportunity, they learn to accept a halter and lead very early, which makes tieing training easy when they are old enough, they wear blankets, fly sheets, fly boots, fly masks at some point early on, even if just for short intervals, because then they accept most other tack. They wait for their food, will back off if I ask, yield all their body parts, learn to pick up and hold up their feet and I actually do rasping from about 4 weeks old. They get lots of love and scratches but are not allowed to bite, kick, or push, ie make me move my feet. I will continue this topic, would love to hear how others handle their babies.

06/22/2026

I’m off to work at the barn that I don’t work at. They pay very well for the job, have a nice atmosphere, nice boss, but darn they can’t seem to find any sane person to work and keep showing up. Just chasing my tail.

Today reminded me of my years in Texas, picking up bales of hay out of the field and stacking them in the barn by myself...
06/22/2026

Today reminded me of my years in Texas, picking up bales of hay out of the field and stacking them in the barn by myself. I’m not as young as I was in Texas though, so I only did 60.

This post is pretty much about not taking veterinary advice from Facebook, especially without verifying sources. Having...
06/21/2026

This post is pretty much about not taking veterinary advice from Facebook, especially without verifying sources. Having spent the worst two months of winter in Florida (gotta love retirement), I am now on a couple Florida horse pages. Reading some questions about extra precautions to take with the new world screw worm having made it back to North America (we eradicated it once, but it probably won’t be as easy this time), I was reminded of a recent conversation on one of these pages regarding management of horses in Florida in the summer. This conversation is not about screw worms, which as far as I understand have not made it to Florida yet, mainly Texas. The AAEP site is a good place to start if you’re looking for precautionary advice. I visited the AAEP site to gain some more information for myself, and came across a statement regarding oral ivermectin not having proven efficacy and cautioning regarding judicious use of avermectins and parasite resistance, which will bring me to my point on the Florida conversation. One of the suggestions for horses there in summer was to use oral Ivermectin every 2 weeks from summer until October, which would be at least 8 doses in that time frame. This sent off red flags in my head and I stated that I didn’t think this was a good idea, and received a good amount of pushback on it since I obviously don’t have a clue about what Florida is like in summer (not yet 😁). I did a good amount of research, being careful of the sources, and still came to the conclusion that this use of Ivermectin is not warranted or advisable, except in specific instances under veterinary care. The lady suggesting this protocol for all horses in Florida in summer stated that her husband is a vet, to give herself credibility. Of course, Ivermectin is the wonder drug that cures everything, so who am I to question it?

06/20/2026

Interesting take away from a mistake I made the other day, as promised in my post from 4 days ago. This video is from last year when my then 3 year old, now 4 year old, had very little riding. He maneuvered the teeter totter with just a couple moments of processing, but no panicking or deciding it was a bad idea, we rode through the same obstacle course a few times last year. A bit of background on the gelding; I raised him, and I still have his mom and sister, they are a happy little herd of 3. The only one that’s ever experienced anything I don’t know about is the mom, a now 24 year old OTTB. The gelding is super confident, he’s been doted on by his mom and sister and he thinks he’s really special. He had his jewels until he was 2, so I’ve drawn a pretty strict line on manners without taking away from his curiosity, which he has a lot of. This year, after a few rides at home, we went back over to the park to play, went on a nice trail ride, and then to the obstacle course. I worked over a couple of the square platforms and then to the teeter totter, I did not go over the long bridge that doesn’t move first as I always did the year before. The teeter totter has gotten a bit washed out and has a bigger drop than last year. Anyway, he took a step onto the teeter totter, it dropped, and he backed off and decided it was a danger zone. I could not convince him otherwise even from the ground and having worked over the very similar but non movable bridge. I had worked with the tools at hand and was considering going to the trailer to get better ground work tools, but even though I was just standing on the bridge letting him think, he was kind of escalating into stressed behavior. I had my macate reins and I gave him one slap on the shoulder with the popper. At this point his whole demeanor changed, not to submission or fear, but he started thinking differently than he was the moment before. He stepped onto the teeter totter with me, hesitated like last year, and walked calmly over it, then did it super relaxed under saddle. I’m not saying the slap was the right thing, but in the moment, and knowing this horse has never had bad experiences, it really did seem to reset his thought processes. I’ll let you know how our next adventure goes at the park, and then hopefully with some new challenges.

06/20/2026

I needed a new mower for the ‘lawn grass’ this year and decided I could live with a push mower. Here in Ohio the grass is not only long, but probably wet, the first couple of times you mow for the year. This definitely had me questioning my life choices, but all is well now that, even though the grass got long this week, it is dry. Other than a bit of w**d whacking, which there is much less of with the push mower, I am done with the Saturday outside chores.

06/20/2026

I really like this setup, my horses can come in and out at will to a nice big space with free choice hay. They make the decision at certain times of the day that it is more comfortable to be in the barn instead of the pasture, and it has a lot more to do with weather and bugs than the time on the clock. I took in a couple boarder horses, so separated a space for them. When the new hay comes in I will panel off the back 12’ for that, but everyone will still have 12x30 or 12x20 of inside space. My 3 are often all laying down sleeping in there first thing in the morning.

06/18/2026

It’s really nice to have two broke horses that I can pony off of to get a youngster through a lot of exposure and keep me safe. I watched a video the other day of a horse leaping into a river crossing and losing his rider about halfway across. I thought, that definitely would have been my gelding if he would have had to do his first water crossings with me on him, but luckily I had good horses to pony him off of for a lot of trail miles before riding him. He did leap into several river crossings before finally deciding that they were no big deal, and other good ground work skills were helpful also, as I was able to send him into the river ahead of me after the first couple of times so he wouldn’t land on my pony horse with his crazy leaps. He likes rivers/big creeks so much now that I can barely get him out of them on a ride. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cs8WdGbZt/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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