Wild Rose Equine Services

12/24/2022

Its official! I am now a certified “ST Instructor” with Marijke de Jong’s Straightness Training program.
I discovered Marijke’s ST Program after watching a video on Facebook where I fell in love with the beauty of her liberty work. In 2017, I decided to join the ST Mastery Program with my mare Dominique and I’ve been littering my facebook feed with videos of me and Dominique doing ST together ever since, lol. You’re welcome 😂🤣😂
One of my long term goals with ST was to become a certified ST instructor on day. Unfortunately, in 2019 I had to quit riding as a previous knee injury caught up with me and my hopes of becoming an ST instructor disappeared. In order to be an ST instructor, a person must pass the 5 pillars of ST, which including riding, groundwork, lunging, work in hand and liberty. Fortunately for me, Marijke changed the requirements in 2022 and created a Basic ST Instructor Certificate for people (like me) who were dedicated to ST but unable to ride. As of December 2022, I completed all my requirements and I have officially become the first ever Basic Grade 2 instructor in Canada!
Thank you Marijke de Jong for the opportunity to become a part of a part of the ST Community. I look forward to spreading the word about ST as an official ST Instructor.

10/20/2022

I will soon be a Certified "Straightness Training" Instructor. If you would like to learn more about ST check out this excellent video on the 8 dimensions of Natural Asymmetry. Both my horses are left bended. What bend does your horse naturally have? https://www.facebook.com/marijke.de.jong.straightness.training/videos/456853733094425

10/18/2021

There can be more to lunging than simply going around mindlessly in circles. By using the dressage movements of shoulder-fore, shoulder-in and haunches-in while lunging, we can help create better balance, suppleness and self carriage in our horses. Here are some clips from my 6 month journey in using Haunches-in (while lunging) to help create a better balance with my mare Dominique.

There can be more to lunging than simply going around in circles. By using the dressage movements of shoulder-fore, shoulder-in, haunches-in while lunging, ...

07/03/2021

Well, it’s been a LONG time since I posted on this page. I thought I would share a video of some liberty work with my mare Dominique.

Why do liberty? Liberty is a great way to help develop more effective communication between horse and rider. Liberty helps develop increased trust and a better relationship. Advanced liberty also helps the horse build better balance and learn to be in self carriage. So lots of great things to love about liberty … plus it looks pretty cool ;-)

The biggest help to riders is that it teaches people to be more effective with their body language.

The biggest reason to teach a horse liberty (or at least the prep work for liberty) is safety. When the horse can do basic liberty exercises (halt, back up, moving the shoulders and moving the hindquarters), the horse can focus more easily on us. They develop better respect of our personal space and as a result they are safer to be around. When they are spooky or nervous, they are less likely to jump into our personal space. If they get excitable, it is also much easier to regain their focus by simply going back to those basic exercises. I teach all horses (even those that I never plan on doing liberty with) the liberty prep exercises (of halt, back up, moving the shoulders and moving the hindquarters).

Why do liberty? Liberty is a great way to help develop more effective communication between horse and rider. Liberty helps develop increased trust and a be...

11/18/2019

Today was weaning day for Qadence. I think Momma was ready as she didn't even stop eating, lol.
Here is a short video from the summer.

Qadence - 2019 Filly Sired by Quaterback Out of Dominique III (by Chico's Boy)

03/17/2019

Quazar heads to his new home in Williams Lake, BC today! I was originally planning on keeping Quazar until my mare foaled a filly and this year we are anticipating a filly! Fingers crossed the ultrasound is correct.

06/12/2018

Congratulations to Anne Howard on the arrival of her new c**t (who was purchased in-utero).

Introducing 'Quasi Quattro' - 2018 c**t sired by Quaterback and out of Dominique II (by Chico's Boy).

Here is a short (and blurry) video from this morning at 11 days of age.

11/01/2017

We are pleased to report that Dominique's in-utero foal (c**t option only) is currently under contract (conditionally sold). If everything goes as planned, next year's c**t will be moving to Vermont. If the vet's ultrasound prediction (of a c**t) turns out to be inaccurate, then we will be thrilled to be able to retain a filly. Now we eagerly wait to see what Dominique produces next year :-)

10/18/2017

New blog post.
Qauntum heads to his new home at Riverlands Equestrian Facility in BC. Can't wait to see how he does in the future!
Thank you to Jo and Wes.
http://www.wildroseequineservices.com/quantum-salto-leaves-for-his-new-home-at-riverlands-equestrian-facility-in-bc/

07/09/2017

Quantum at 5 weeks :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmv6IezEeo

06/14/2017

Quantum Salto has been conditionally sold! If all goes well, he will be heading to Riverlands Equestrian in BC in October at weaning :-) Thank you Jo and Wes!