Mystic Canyon Stable, Tiffany's Red Barn

19/09/2025

Looks great!:)

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18/09/2025

Looking to REHOME Onyx/Rocky as a retirement companion for another gelding. Super sweet, loyal, and handsome, he's ready to retire from riding and keep another gelding company:) He is about 25ish years old, 14 hands, black, grade Quarterhorse, about 734 pounds. As for many older horses, he's got PPID/Cushings and takes his tiny half of his pink Prascend pill daily with hay pellets. He's an easy keeper on timothy and alfalfa hay with strong hooves that are barefoot. Please keep him in mind and help us find his next best home:) thank you!

12/09/2025

Smart setting up for trail riding success

13/08/2025

Sings, rides, amazing!:)

13/08/2025

So glad we've got sprinklers to cool down under on hot days! Great despooking training, just don't get water in horses ears, can be uncomfortable, affecting their equilibrium (ever had water stick in your ears!?) or cause an ear infection.

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12/08/2025

Great example:)

11/08/2025

Yay for reuniting B and Alex:) Request your final ride with him before 8/18 & come give him lots of love too!

09/08/2025

Going on now!:)

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02/08/2025

Molly is so smart, she's using her technology to set TWO timers for our red light therapy boots while on 2 horses! We are so fortunate to have such great volunteers and riders dedicated to stellar care of our critters:) Thank you for the team effort for the win-win-win!

02/08/2025

Great local training opportunity!:)

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02/08/2025

Worth watching Linda Parelli share from her experience about her successful programs and evolution in learnings.

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01/08/2025

Research conducted by Kienapfel and colleagues (2025) set out to investigate the relationship between head–neck position (HNP) and behavioural indicators of welfare in elite dressage horses.

Their goal was to provide an objective, evidence-based threshold at which flexion during riding becomes problematic for equine welfare, and to clarify the respective roles of vertical and poll angles in this context.

Concurrently, the occurrence of conflict behaviours—such as tail swishing, abnormal oral behaviours, headshaking, and gait irregularities—were quantified by trained observers.

The study used linear mixed-effects models to show that greater head–neck flexion—especially more negative vertical and poll angles—is clearly linked to increased conflict behaviour in dressage horses, with other factors like age, breed, or bit type not significant, though stallions did show more conflict than mares or geldings.

The authors identified that a -7.5° vertical angle (nasal plane behind the vertical) was an evidence-based limit: positions less flexed than -4° can be considered safe, -4° to -7.5° require caution, and beyond -7.5° pose a welfare risk.

Notably, more than 90% of horses examined were ridden behind the vertical, with half of these exceeding the -7.5° threshold, despite regulations.

📖: Kienapfel K, Hartmann E, Preiss B, Bachmann I. Head–Neck Positions in Ridden Horses: Defining Degrees of Flexion and Their Impact on Equine Behavior and Welfare. Int J Equine Sci 2025;4(2):107–124