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26/07/2025

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22/07/2025

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Monday July 14th I worked with Gia on flatwork. We worked a lot on halt and walk transitions. We also worked on flexions at the halt and ...

21/07/2025

🚨 Important Biosecurity Reminder from Castle Farm 🚨

Here’s a reminder for all horse owners, competitors, and show organizers:

This is what happens when someone brings a horse to a show that is sick—or even just “borderline.” The consequences don’t end at the showgrounds. They follow everyone home—to other horses, to other barns, and to entire communities.

We urge everyone to think carefully before loading up a horse who isn’t 100%:

✅ For the sake of your horse
✅ For the sake of others at the event
✅ And for the sake of horses back at the farms

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This past weekend, a few of our horses were stabled near a horse at a show who was coughing continuously and had a snotty nose. That horse had direct contact with one of ours, which now means our horses may have been exposed to a contagious illness.
While none of them are currently showing symptoms, we are treating them as if they are sick in order to protect the rest of our herd.

We are taking strict precautionary steps, including:

🔹 Isolating the horses to a designated area
🔹 Allowing them access to only one arena (and not allowing other horses in that arena)
🔹 Storing all of their tack and equipment separately
🔹 Requiring everyone to disinfect their feet after leaving the area
🔹 Monitoring all horses on the property for symptoms and taking temps on the exposed horses twice a day
🔹 Making sure everyone on the property—students, parents, owners, visitors, and equine professionals—is aware of and following our quarantine procedures

➡️ If you're at the farm, please do not enter their area or touch these horses unless you are working with them specifically. If you do handle them, you may not handle any other horses or shared equipment.

If any of the exposed horses begin showing symptoms and are diagnosed with a contagious illness, I will share that information publicly here and notify the show organizer so that others who may have come into contact with them—or with “horse zero”—can act accordingly.

👉 No show ribbon is worth the health and safety of our horse partners or the livelihoods of barn owners and operators.

– Heather King
Castle Farm, LLC 🐴

14/07/2025

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Monday July 7th - I worked with Gia on light flat work doing walk/halt transitions and focusing on straightness. Tuesday July 8th - This wa...

06/07/2025

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I'm a bit behind in writing my blogs because we had a week of summer camp and it was a little crazy, so I'm just now catching up on everyth...

27/06/2025

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I have started studying a very interesting book, simply called "The Dressage Horse" by Harry Boldt. It was suggested by my dressage instr...