Category Archives: Competition…Naturally!

Horseback Trip Cost Calculator

Nothing beats trailering to off-the-farm field trips for increasing a horse’s confidence and competencies… and nothing is more fun! We just discovered this trip cost calculator.  How cool!  Our F350 didn’t show up in their automatic fields, but they allow … Continue reading

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Horse Dreams Come True

I started teaching the Knock’s several years ago.  Their dream was to trail ride as a family.  When we started, they had one young, barely broke, extremely fearful Quarter Horse.  Hardly material for group pleasure ride success! Stormy the been-there-done-that … Continue reading

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We-show Horse Show

We woke before the sun to groom and load the horses. Ours was the first trailer to roll into the horse show grounds. I hopped on Gideon first, determined to give him the slow warm-up he responds so well to– … Continue reading

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Natural Horsemanship at the MPHSC Horse Show

Despite visiting family, we managed to work in a quick trip to the Maryland/Pennsylvania Horse Show Circuit show. We brought along Angus, Lucy and Gideon. The show grounds offered an indoor and outdoor arena, and a large field to play … Continue reading

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Natural Reining: Stacy Westfall’s Winning Bridleless Congress Run

An invisible barrier seems to exist in people’s minds between competitive and natural horsemanship. Natural horse trainers shatter that myth with increasing frequency in the worlds of dressage, reining, eventing, hunter-jumpers, and others. Natural horse trainer Stacy Westfall rocked the … Continue reading

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