https://www.facebook.com/159729674132276/

CL Love Equine Services

Home
United States
Salem, OH
CL Love Equine Services

Call Directions Contact the business

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.

11/11/2026

Because we need to show the good and the bad, this is that moment where the transition from letting the horse find his balance on a loose rein to transitioning to him accepting more input on how he carries himself, is not going really well. We have a few choices right now. Back track and break the steps down into smaller pieces, which is never a bad plan. Move back to the bosal so that my input might make more sense to him, and also because he might be shedding some caps again. Do some more long lining work so I’m not interfering with his back while I’m trying to teach him to stay softened better. Add more purpose to his job than circles, some obstacles to work around, a flag, even a cow. Continue to ask for more instances of carrying himself more long and low on the trail. We are probably going to use a combination of these things, so it may be awhile before you see the hopefully better carriage. Tomorrow is another trail riding day, but that doesn’t mean we give up working on things that transition to the arena work, it’s hopefully just more interesting and meaningful to the horse.

11/10/2026

Now that I’ve got this Pivo thing, I can critique my riding and see where I’m at with my horses training, geez do I have a lot of work to do. This is day 6 of our arena work journey, we took some time off for more trail riding. I was concentrating more on the camera than my riding here, but now that I got it figured out, and hopefully remember the remote, I can set the camera up and ignore it.

11/09/2026

What I’m working on when I’m not riding.

11/09/2026

When you’re a retired horse trainer you can do this in the morning, make a plan for some more relaxing years where you can enjoy just your horses. I did not have a great plan, not like Clinton or such, but luckily I’m good with a pretty simple life. Driving an old truck and living in Ohio in an ‘in process’ house works for me, though I would still like to go south where it’s warmer and west where it’s closer to family.

11/08/2026

Got out on another trail ride with my friend Linda, it is interesting that Legz is pretty willing to lead in the woods, but would prefer to follow when we’re out of the woods, I’m going to have to think about the reasoning of his horse brain on that one. At the end of the ride, I grabbed my new Pivo to work on setting it up and learning how to use it. It is going to be a great training tool for me, I can actually give myself lessons. Here’s a short clip showing how patient this wonderful horse is.

SPY Master FAME

11/08/2026

I was reading a post this morning that got my overactive mind to thinking. The current fascination with housing horses on track systems, which I don’t necessarily disagree with for some horses, but…The OP in the post had an area on a moderate hillside that they were wanting to use as extra ‘pasture’ for the horses. There were lots of good suggestions for erosion control, and most were in favor of the OPs idea. One suggestion was to build a track system, specifically saying ‘to keep the horses moving’. This is where my brain went into overdrive. The idea of the track system started in some area like where I live, that had a plethora of green pastures for horses, and said horses had a lot of hoof problems, to simplify and shorten the theory and reasoning. My brain this morning, went immediately to the thought of, years from now, are we going to discover that fencing horses around the green pastures, where they can ‘see but not touch’ and are forced to walk around the grass and eat dry hay from ‘stations’, creates some sort of new mental issues with these horses? What do you all think? My experience with my pastures is that there are times that my horses prefer to stand around the round bale or other free choice hay, than to go out in the pasture, and when they are in the pasture, they move around a lot, and still choose to come up to the hay a lot. I keep their hay in a big open barn, with a couple of ways to separate for special feeding. Interestingly, my horses often choose to be in eating hay at the times that we are supposed to be careful with our pastures because of high sugar in the grass. These couple years of observation have made me adamant that my horses will always have 24/7 access to good quality free choice grass or mix hay, even if they have access to good pasture, they seem to make good choices, and I will always give them a choice. If I was in an area without good pasture, they would have both inside and outside access to good hay, 24/7.

11/01/2026

Trying to video creek crossing without losing my phone.

10/31/2026

Beaver Creek this weekend. Looking forward to fun and games and lots of trail riding.

10/28/2026

The progression from summer to winter as reflected by this lovely maple.

10/26/2026

More Hocking Hills trail footage.

Address

Salem, OH

Telephone

+13037171959

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when CL Love Equine Services posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.